Manslaughter Charge Dropped By Police
Following the decision of Mr. A. G. Chiplin, Newcastle Coroner, that Lena Lilian Ward, 21. Dwyer St., Gosford, who was killed by a motor…
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Courts & crime, 1938
39 stories in Central Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
Magistrate Directs Police Prior Convictions Are Denied Car Driver Heavily Fined
A point-blank denial that at the Parramatta Police Court during 1934, 1935, and 1936 he had been convicted on various charges was made by Bob Watson, also known in his boxing days as "Bob Madden," under cross-examination by Sergeant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Denies Statement Police Case Fails
Although a boy under the age of 14 years made a statement to the police relative to a charge laid against his father, he made a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Right-Of-Ways Protection by Police
Suggestion was made to Gosford Council in a letter from S. Kingsbury that notices be erected prohibiting parking in front of right of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Car Driver Fined Magistrate Believes Police
In convicting Sydney Hyman Victor Fienberg, commercial traveller, 40 Stewart St., Bondi, on a charge of having on December 20, driven a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Magistrate Discharges Driver Sequel To Pacific Highway Tragedy
Arising out of the tragic death of Lena Lilian Ward, 21, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Ward, Dwyer Street, on the darkly-lit Pacific Highway north of Gosford on Christmas Eve, Ernest Edward Moir, 20, of Erina, was discharged by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Rin" Versus "Spot" Fracas At Davistown Elderly Men in Court
"Rin," a kelpie dog, and "Spot," a foxy were the main actors in a drama told at the Gosford Police Court last week. They were absent,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Serves Off The Court
Has Fred Gately got Tennis Elbow? Anyway, his arm is in sling, which was probably the cause of him not playing last week…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Recognised an Old Technique" Magistrate Gives Man Gaol Term
When James Roy Healey, boot operator, Wade St., Campsie, backed Willie Linga in the Erina Stake at the Dogs on February 28, the dog did not linger but won nicely. Ten crisp £1 notes in Healey's pocket did not linger, either, but vanished…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Magistrate Grants Unique Appeal Driver's License to Former Asylum Inmate Mayor and Deputy Mayor Testify for Applicant
Slated to be the first case of its kind to come before the Courts, an application for & driver's license by a car driver who admitted that on more than one occasion he had been an inmate of Callan Park Asylum, had been convicted of having driven a motor car while under the influence, and with having failed to stop following an accident, was granted by Mr. Carr Boyd, P.M., at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft From School
Before Messrs J. J. Kinnears ami A. J. Delandre. J's.P., at Gosford Police Court on Friday, Arthur William Bishop. 18, and Norman Silver,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Serves Off The Court
The tennis winter competition has at last got off to a good start with a fine day for its first game of the season…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Charged by Bull Narrow Escape
On Friday morning a Jersey bull "belonging to Mr. V. C. Lyndon, of Holgate Road, Matcham, suddenly charged Mr. Lyndon's brother,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DEPARTMENT V. BANK Neglect of Orchard Case Before Court
Because there have been rumblings throughout the district that while orchardists have been compelled to take suitable measures for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Alleged Stealing Charge
Before Mr. H. Tompson, J.P., at the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, Mr. George Fainley Masters, of Terrigal, was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" Coming To Regal Theatre Police Charge Man
"Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," the Paramount comedy opening- Friday, Saturday and Monday at the Regal Theatre, brings Claudette Colbert…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Undesirables Beware Waring by Magistrate
At the Court of Petty Sessions on Monday, Mr. H. Tompson, J.P., issued a warning to undesirables that no leniency will be shown them…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Get Their Man Inquiries lasted Nine Months
Like the Canadian Mounties, Gosford police always get their man. Nine months after Miss Josephine May Cassels, Mann Street, Gosford,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Magistrate's Denial
Immediately after taking his seat on the bench at the Gilford Police Court on Friday, Mr. Carr Boyd, P.M., made the following…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Buildings
Mr. G. C. Gollan, Chief Secretary, advises Mr. R. B. Walker, M.L.A., that he is looking into the question of the condition of the police…
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