£5 Note Came Through Court Door GRAFTON
A £5 note, handed through the door of the Grafton court room by an unknown person, saved a young man…
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Claim for £5000 FAILS Judge's Direction To Supreme Court Jury
By direction of Mr. Justice Stephen, a Jury in the Supreme Court yesterday returned a verdict for defendants in an action by Lionel Gordon Tooley, claiming…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Aspect: Bones Case Police Seeking Information From N.S.W. Undertakers
New South Wales police are investigating a report that Gordon Robert McKay, 43, reported killed in a New Zealand fire, was associated with undertaking firms here…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Supreme Court. Causes in No. 4 COURT. (Before Mr. Acting Justice Pitt and jury.) Motor Cycle and Car Collide. Mears v Edwards
Leslie Martin Mears brought an action against Leslie Malcolm Edwaids to recover £3,000 as damages for personal injuries which were received in a collision between a motor cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spied on Luggers on Cliff Top Japanese In Court DARWIN
How he had spied on Japanese luggers, watching them from a cliff through powerful glasses,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder of M.L.C.'s Niece Blood on Axe at Inquest Diamond Ring Left With Hotelkeeper TENTERFIELD
A bloodstained axe was produced in the Coroner's Court to-day at the inquest on Marjorie Constance Sommerlad, 35, a . niece of Mr. E. C. Sommerlad, M.L.C., who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Court. (Before Judge Barton and a Jury of four.) Glebe Council Sued
Reference is made in another column to the action by Alan Bernard McDowell against the Council of the Municipality of Glebe. The matter is part heard…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Causes in No. 5 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Owen.) Income Tax Appeal. Swallow v Commissioner for Taxation, Commonwealth
Judgment was given on this appeal from an assessment of income tax which was argued and reported last week. His Honor held that the moneys in question…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telephone Theft
Switch gear, valued n; approximately £10 was stolen from a telephone box in front of the Blacktown post office early on Saturday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Allege Assault
Police alleged an assault upon a nine- year-old boy in the grounds of the War Memorial Hospital, Birrell Street, Waverley, last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cripples in Court Stealing Charges "Can't Get Work"
Leaning on crutches, two men, each minus his right leg, appeared at Liverpool Court on Monday. They pleaded guilty to a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Acquitted of Theft
Honor Cecillia Ely, 29, domestic, was discharged by Mr. Harrison, S.M., at Central Police Court yesterday. It was alleged that at Sydney last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Theft of Greyhound
William John Brady was charged at North Sydney Court to-day with having, at Chatswood, on March 7, stolen a greyhound known as…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Carnival
The Police and Empire Speedways Carnival, which was washed out last Saturday and Monday, will be held this Saturday night at the Sydney Sports…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Police Arrivals
Policemen recently transferred to Parramatta include Sergeant Worboys; Constables Moore (from Narrandera). Dawaon (from Sydney), Prendergast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Glenroy Murder: Green's Appeal
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The appeal against George Green's conviction on two charges of murder will be heard by the Court of Criminal Appeals on…
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SERGT. KENNEDY (Coroner's Court): What did the publican say when told that a dead man was in the outhouse…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court Windows
Amalgamated Wireless (A'sia), Ltd., has been instructed by the Public Works Department to instal Fisk soundproof windows in the Arbitration Court and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Assault and Robbery. Man Committed for Trial
At the Central Police Court yesterday William Tyson, 32, labourer, was committed for trial on a charge of having on February 27 assaulted and robbed William Lennon of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Shooting of Constable. Remand on Murder Charge
Leslie William Murphy, 28, and Stanley Arthur Dayment, 28, were remanded, without bail, until March 16, when they appeared at the Central…
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