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Central Coast · Courts & crime
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Heavy rain which flooded the whole district yesterday afternoon did immense damage. A total of 11.73 inches has fallen at Gosford since Saturday afternoon last when the downpour commenced. Of this total, 6.80 inches fell yesterday and last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →After a complainant had given evidence of an assault, Mr A. E. Stonham, SM, remanded the defendant, Richard Sansom, of Wyee, to appear af Gosford Court of Petty Sessions on January 20…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William George Reid, a 22-year-old labourer, of Mount White, who told police he took a truck to drive his de facto wife to hospital, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drunken drivers and drivers who flouted speed limits were a menace to themselves and every other user of the highways and did not deserve a license, said Mr A. E. Stonham, SM, at Gosford Court of Petty Sessions, Thursday last. Carrington Dolphus Brooker, 32,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lance Adams, of 131 Paddington Street, Paddington, who told Stipendiary Magistrate A. E. Stonham at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Defendant is very lucky he is not here on a major charge. Had the driver of the other truck been sitting in it he may have been killed", said Mr A. E. Stonham, SM, at Gosford Court of Petty Sessions yesterday when he refused to give a bond to Rollo Walter Barber, a 55-year-old PMG linesman, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robert Matthew Thomas, 20 years, an Ourbah railway construction camp ganger, who is alleged to have shot a man at Ourimbah on November 25 last, may never walk again…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →William Kenneth Thompson, a 35-year-old labourer, of The Boulevarde, Woy Woy, was sentenced to three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →An 8-year-old absconder from the Kincumber Orphanage stole £361/1/6½ from a safe at the Hardy's Bay Post Office store while the staff was absent for half-an-hour on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Norman Berry, nurseryman, of Malcolm Street, East Gosford, was, bound over to be of good behaviour for twelve months on a £20…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sgt Blundon, of Taree, has been appointed Police Sergeant at Gosford and will take over from relieving Sgt Collins within the next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Robert Matthew Thomas, a 19-year-old railway construction worker, will stand trial on March 7 at the Sydney Criminal Court on a charge of murdering Bruce Maitland Pryor, 24-year-old Wyong Shire Council employee and returned soldier, of Lisarow, who was found shot outside his father's home on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stipendiary Magistrate A. E. Stonham at Gosford Court of Petty Sessions Thursday last warned restaurant proprietors licensed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Details of court cases, in which two Sydney Market agents were fined, are given below. A statement by the Minister for Agriculture, published recently by the GOSFORD TIMES, did not give the names and, at the request of several growers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Although Harold Joseph Weatherby, a 38-year-old labourer, of Avoca Beach, thought four charges against him were "trifling and did not amount to 5/-", Mr A. E. Stonham, SM, at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The trial of Robert Thomas, a 19-year-old railway construction worker, on a charge of murdering Bruce Maitland Pryor at his home…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Although 67 years of age, Frances Agnes Sheridan, of Woy ,Woy, still packs a solid punch according to Harry Dove, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Terrigal Progress Association has lodged a protest against the Brisbane Water District County Council's decision to build new council chambers at Gosford at an estimated cost of approximately…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →William Henry Parnell, of Point Clare, was fined £5 and ordered to pay 10/- court costs and £5 5 professional costs by Stipendiary Magistrate A. E. Stonham at Gosford Court of Petty…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The trial on a murder charge of a man with a broken back, bed-ridden for nearly five months, was adjourned in the Central Criminal Court yesterday until the next sittings of the court…
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