Handcuffs Off Police Not to Carry Them "Used When Needed" Sydney
It was announced in Parliament, when the Assembly met to-day, that a movement was now being brought into effect to deprive uniformed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1926
1,903 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 96
Murder on a Farm
A shocking tragedy has been discovered at a lonely farm in Warwickshire. Mrs. Crabtree, an attractive woman, aged 25, was found dead in a sitting-room,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Forged Notes Three Years' Gaol LONDON
Charles Ebsworth has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment for passing forged 20s notes in London. He selected small shops where…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Police Court Thursday, January 14. (Before Mr. A. G. Chiplin, J.P.) Drunkenness
A first offender, who had been locked up for being drunk, and was admitted to hail, did not appear. His bond was forfeited. Fines of 10s, or three days'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charlestown Police Court Thursday, January 14. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
Upon charges of drunkenness, one first offender forfeited his bond, and two others were each fined 5s, in default 24 hours' imprisonment. Harold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bravery Rewarded Wickham Police Constable
Included in the Royal Humane Society's awards for distinguished bravery is a bronze modal and certificate of merit for Constable F. J. Healy, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Debts Court. a Horse Shot
Edgar Thomas Harris sought to recover from Lindsay Gregory Searant the sum of £10, upon the grounds that the defendant had unskilfully and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Java Murder
A message from Weltevreden states that, according to press reports. Wangsa, the hotel boy, at Garcet, who originally declared that he saw other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Equipment
For many years the equipment of members of the New South Wales police force has included a pair of handcuffs, and no constable has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£8000 FRAUD Old Lawyers Sentenced LONDON
John Martin, 71 years, who had been three times Mayor of Reading, and his brother, Frederick, aged 69, both solicitors, have been sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Presentation
Just before the close of the Petty Sessions at Newcastle Court to-day, Sergeant Ward on behalf of the court-house social club, presented the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Police Court. Friday, January 15. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc
One first offender, who did not appear to answer a charge of drunkenness, had his bond forfeited. John Power, 40, was fined 15s, or even days'…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hold-up Alleged Revolver and Sandbag Two Men Charged Sydney
Alleged lo have bulled up the Mayor or Auburn (Alderman G. C. Collen) with a revolver after midnight on Wednesday. George Canale, or…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court
At Newcastle Police Court on Saturday, before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, SM., three first offenders, who had been locked up for being drunk, and admitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Assault on an Abbe
A message front Paris states that the Abbe Desnoyers, of Bemton, near Melun, who was violently attacked after mass by twelve persons, who threw…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Like Lightning" Police Definition
During the prosecution of a motor cyclist at the Newcastle Police Court this morning, Sergeant Ward said that the defendant passed a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Glenrock Mystery Body That of Chinese Suicide or Murder?
Considerable mystery surrounds the identity of the man whose body was found partially buried in the sand on the beach near Glenrock, south of Merewether,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Graziers' Quarrel "Why Come to Court?"
"It seems ridiculous to me that two able-bodied men like you should have come to court to settle such a [?]ling offence as this. Can you not…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court
Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Tofie Saidie a Syrian was fined £3, with 8s costs, or twenty-one days, for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wise Magistrate Advice to Erring Man
"She deeth him good and not evil all the days of her life."—Solomon. At the Mor[?]sset court, the prosecuting constable remarked that the…
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