Boy’s Appeal to Avoid Gaol Home Unhappiness Causes Delinquincy
Unhappiness in the home can often be a contributing cause to child delinquency, especially as far as boys are concerned…
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Statements Forced Man Tells Court
A man accused of breaking into Edmondson's store last September claimed at the Quarter Sessions yesterday that he had been forced to make untrue statements admitting the offence. He was found not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Chief's Claim Wrong charges by Judge
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Judge Nield had made allegations against police officers as far back as 1939, and investigations, ultimately, had proved him…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Sheep Stealing Nangus Resident Charged
A resident of Nangus was arrested by the Gundagal police and charged on three counts. The man was remanded until…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Men Charged with Theft of S.m.a. Cable
Two men appeared in Cooma Court of Petty Sessions on 26th July when they pleaded not guilty to charges of having stolen a quantity of copper cable from the Cabramurra works of the Snowy Mountains Authority…
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This week's list in the Wagga Quarter Sessions and District Court brought a big team of barristers from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →2 1/2 years' gaol Warning to man by Judge
In sentencing Alan William Greentree, 21, to 2 1/2 years' gaol for breaking and entering, Judge Brenman, at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Men Arrested for Theft of £275 at Wagga
Three Victorians have been arrested and charged with breaking into Great Southern Motors in Baylis Street on Thursday night and stealing £275 from a safe. The safe was forced open by using an oxy-acetylene torch…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Important Decision by Full Court
The Full Court on Wednesday unanimously held that a person who had been acquitted of a charge of culpable driving of a motor car could…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big List for To-morrow’s Court
A big number of cases is listed for to-morrow’s sittings of the Gundagai Court of Petty Sessions, at which his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court of Petty Sessions WEDNESDAY, 12th AUGUST (Before Mr. F. J. Hale, J.P.)
James Adlund (77) was charged with being found drunk in the waiting room of the Narrandera railway station…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court rejects murder appeal
ADELAIDE, Monday: An appeal by John Balaban, 29-year-old Rumanian industrial chemist, against his conviction and sentence of death for murder was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Annand Case Over. Court Rules
SYDNEY, Monday: The State Full Court today refused to have the Annand case brought before the Supreme Court or to quash Judge Nield's acquittal of Annand. The Chief Justice (the Hon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sedition Cases Special Court Hearing Starts
SYDNEY, Tuesday— Police and detectives guarded corridors outside the Special Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Coota. Court items Men fined for railway thefts at Coota
Two men were fined a total of £30/7/11 by Mr. W. Finlay. S.M., at the Cootamundra Court of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Court Items
A Leeton fruitgrower was fined a total of £15/2/ at the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for selling infected apples and unstamped cases of fruit. The fruitgrower, John G…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collapsed in court—says took thallium
SYDNEY, Tuesday: A 20-year-old laborer collapsed at Redfern Children's Court today, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged with Stealing Camera
John Albert Bennett, aged 26, technician, of 79a Carter Street, Cammeray, was before the Griffith Court on Tuesday charged will) stealing a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Magistrate Intimates That He Would Send Nangus Resident to Gaol Heavy Fines For Sheep And Wool Stealing
Magistrate Finlay intimated in the Gundagai Court last Tuesday that he was considering sending John Alexander Woodhouse, of Nangus, who pleaded guilty to three charges of sheep and wool stealing to gaol, but after all facts were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Gundagai Youth to Pay £25 in Fines Stealing Accessories From Parked Motor Vehicles
SOLICITOR F. A. DODDS made a, strong appeal, for clemency in the Gundagai Court last, Tuesday, when a South Gundagai youth faced five charges of stealing. The presiding Magistrate,…
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