Fined For Stealing
At the Gosford Police Court on Friday, James Starkey pleaded guilty to having stolen a bicycle, valued at 15/-, at…
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Courts & crime, 1940
40 stories in Central Coast's papers · page 1 of 2
State Boxing Champion Was Unlucky Forfeited £50 By Being Caught By Police
Hockey Bennell, lightweight boxing champion of New South Wales, was particularly unfortunate in, meeting Constable R. J. Cashmere and the Police patrol truck at 12.35 p.m. on November 11, on the Pacific Highway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →EX-POLICE Sgt. Dennison's Fine Record 26½ Years of Service
The death of ex-Police Sgt. George Frederick Dennison, of Railway street, Gosford, at the comparatively early age of 49,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assault on Police Sergeant Alleged Man Remanded
Geoffrey William Robinson appeared in the Gosford Police Court on Friday, charged with having assaulted Sgt. Whitechurch, of Woy Woy,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Police Sergeant for Gosford
Sergeant Stanley F. Willis, who comes from West Kempsey, has been appointed to the Gosford Police District. He will also act as relief…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Month's Gaol For Assault Missing Witnesses
Geoffrey William Robinson, an undertaker, of Bourke Street, Darlinghurst, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment in the Gosford Police, Court on Friday for having assaulted Sgt. Edward Whitechurch, of Woy Woy, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wyong Police Court Ourimbah Case
The case in which Charles Cottee and Vincent E. Deaves were charged by the Forestry Department at the Wyong Police Court last week,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Months Jail For Swagman Theft Of Suitcase
Charged with stealing a suitcase containing clothes and toilet articles owned by John Eric Shorrock, of Kulnura, Aubrey…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Theft of Money Alleged Orchardist v. Carrier
Stenley Errol Allen, orchardist, of Spencer, proceeded against R. G. Coleman, a carrier, in the Gosford Police Court on Friday, alleging the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man and Woman Charged Alleged Sale Of Liquor
Albert Henry Ball and Victoria I. Ball, of Mooney Mooney, were charged in the Gosford Police Court on Friday with having sold liquor…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Terrigal Men Charged Sale Of Liquor Without License Alleged
David Morgan Burgin and Austin Jessup, of Terrigal, appeared in the Gosford Police Court on Friday charged with having sold liquor…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swagman's Death Body Found By Police In Wyong Pig Pen
The body of a man believed to be Michael McKeron, swagman, of no fixed address, was discovered by Wyong Police last week-end in a pig…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coal Strike Delays Magistrate Court Gets Late Start
Gosford Police Court, which normally commences at 10 a.m., did not start until 11.45 a.m. on Friday last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Recovery of Rates Council Goes to Court
The recovery of rates on a property jointly owned by two women was the subject of a Court report in the "Gosford Times" a fortnight ago…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pastoral Returns Now Due Police Issue Notice
Gosford Police wish to bring to the notice of land holders and orchardists the fact that agricultural and pastoral returns are now due…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Man Found Drowned at Woy Woy Police Search Lasts Three Days
After Gosford and Woy Woy Police had searched for three days for Josiah Hughes, a retired coal miner, of Ocean Beach, Woy Woy, his body…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Squid Raids Fishermen's Club Two Charged with Sly Grog Sales
The story of a carefully planned raid on the Terrigal Fishermen's Club was told in the Gosford Police Court on Friday. David Morgan Burgin, the principal of the Club, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Speedsters Fined Woman Driver's Explanation to Police
"I wasn't looking at my speedo. I never do. Anyway, what's 40 miles an hour?" Mrs. Mary McCarren, a woman motorist, said this to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Theft of Flower Plants Burns Place Problems
Reports of the theft of flower plants from Burns Place, Gosford, were received by Tuesday night's meeting of the Municipal Council…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Magistrate's Remarks Criticism Of Motorist
"Your action in passing this car on a hill could easily have lead to , a fatality," said Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., the Gosford Police Court on…
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