Magistrate Says That Man Deserves To Be Locked Up
Vivian Harry Cross, 48, relief worker, of Woy Woy, was convicted at the Gosford Police Court on Friday on a charge of having used indecent language on the…
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Courts & crime, 1939
42 stories in Central Coast's papers · page 1 of 3
Gaming Squad Swoops on Woy Woy Magistrate Refuses Six Months To Pay Fine
Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Gosford Police Court on Friday, refused a defendant six months to pay a betting fine, indicating that his principal should come to his assistance. Bert Alderton, 25, laborer, of Woy Woy,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Munro and Thomas Again in Court Thomas Enters into Recognisance for 6 Months
"I got you before, and I will get you again in a different way." This was the threat which John Henry Claude Munro, 7.1, pensioner, of Point Clare alleged Leslie Keith Thomas, 32, of Point Clare, had…
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Gosford police have in their possession a pair of sun glasses found in front of the Gosford Post Office, also 40 feet of hose that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heard in Court
Defendant (at Gosford Police Court): You say the mare is a bay, even against racing experts, who declare it is a chestnut?…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Court Will Not Be Humbugged" Curtis of Woy Woy Again Fined
Charles Curtis, Riding School Proprietor, was told by Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Gosford Police Court on Friday that he was trying to humbug the court with useless defences, and that the court could not be humbugged. Curtis has 13 days to pay £10/15/-, in default 21 days' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police On Roads
Yesterday morning a police utility truck, together with two policemen, began duty under the new police scheme for minimising the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Men Fined Assault At Woy Woy
Before Messrs A. Charters and F. C. H. Tompson, J's.P., at the Gosford Police Court on Monday, Joseph Foster, 23, and Thomas Edward Foster,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jail for Stealing Pilfering From Unattended Cars
Pleading guilty to one charge, and not guilty to the second, Jack Joseph Hainey, at the Gosford Court on Friday, was sentenced to one…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"I Really Think It Was Flashness" Magistrate's Comment in Traffic Breach
Stating that he thought the actions of John Heathcote Benson, cook at the Hotel Australia, Sydney, was flashness. Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Gosford Police Court on Friday, fined Benson £5 with 8/- costs. Benson was charged, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Heavy Penalty for Brutal Assault Ourimbah Man to Pay Total of £41/15/-
On being found guilty at the Gosford Police Court on Friday on a charge of unlawful assault on James Henry Martin, orchardist, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thrills on Windmill Laborer Defies Police
After being committed to the Master of Lunacy, by a Bench of Honorary Magistrates yesterday, a man who resides at Ourimbah, ran amok…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Up to the Neck in Water Police Play Hide-and-Seek With Escapee
Two youths, Erin Lloyd, 16, and Leslie Quinn, 17, who escaped from the Gosford Training School on Thursday, were caught at Narrabeen on Sunday, the local police playing hide-and-seek with Quinn for more than an hour before his capture…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Raid at Woy Woy Private Detective Is Fined 1/ By Magistrate
Arising out of a raid by a private inquiry agent, and others on a house in Blackwall Road, Woy Woy, just before midnight on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Court Cases
At the District Court, before Judge Nield, on Tuesday, Emily Sutherland Weaver, of Ettalong, claimed £310/16/- for services to the late…
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Gosford Police request that any person witnessing an accident on the Pacific Highway at Mooney Mooney, at about 8 p.m. on April 6,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woy Man Jailed for Theft Lifts from Letterbox Relatives Cheque
According to evidence given by Constable) Lindsay Browne in the Gosford Police Court on Friday, Frederick Charles Swain, relief worker, of Woy Woy, told him that he stole a letter from the letterbox of his sister-in-law. He then took…
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Gosford Police have the following articles on hand which have been found, and it is now desired to establish the identity of the rightful…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Patrol Chases Motorist
Pleading not guilty to having exceeded 30 miles an hour in a built-up area, Angus Melrose, Bold Street, Burwood, was convicted at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Very Bad Case" Magistrate Says That Story of Negligent Driver "Too Thin"
This is really a bad case. Defendant swung round a car in front on a bad bend and the only explanation he can give is that for…
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