Police Kept Waiting Outside Hotel Sudden End to a Send-off Maitland Fines
For a Ions time, from 2.30 on January 21, police endeavored to gain admission to the Metropolitan Hotel at West Maitland. When…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1931
4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 205
Ugly Riots Cause Terror in Benares Benares in a Turmoil Foul Murder of Merchant Sold Cloth Calcutta
The Holy City of Benares is in a turmoil. The temples have become sanctuaries for the refugees, business is at a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Shot In Roy Bruhn's Home Affray at Carlton Police Make Two Arrests MELBOURNE
Another shooting affray occurred at the home of Roy Bruhn, banker, of Station-street, Carlton, last night. In the afternoon, two men visited him, and one…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Coat Worth £498 Man Charged With Theft SYDNEY
At the Central Police Court to-day. Kenneth Bunting Wilson, aged 21, was charged with having stolen a fur coat valued at £498, the property of Brenda Wootton,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Liquor Prosecutions
Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police court yesterday William Patrick Feneley, licensee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Magistrate's Praise
The manner in which the beautification of the Anzac or Court-house Park at East Maitland has been carried out since that area has rome under…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Case Remanded Stealing Charge
Thomas Sumner, 20, of East Greta, was remanded till Monday next, when he appeared before, Mr. Meagher, J.P., in West Maitland Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Station
Work in connection with the alterations and additions to the police station at Wyong is proceeding rapidly. The office on the verandah was too small. Soon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Monday, February 16. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Indecnet Language
Jack Frederick Smith, 23, labourer, was fined £1, in default, seven day's imprisonment, for having used indecent language in Hunter-street on February 14…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Don't Like Police" Fined for Abuse
"The police don't like me, and I don't like them." This was the can-did admission of David Brock. 50, who pleaded guilty at Cessnock Police…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Duties Clerks of Petty Sessions SYDNEY
Replying to a request form the Graziers Association that steps be taken to relieve members of the police fore, as far as possible, of petty sessions duties, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Strychnine in Porridge Bag" Attempted Murder Charge Milton Case Milton
Giving evidence at the Milton Court to-day against William James Rixon, who was charged with atempted murder, Detective-Sergeant McRae…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman's Story of Fortune in the Mountains Obtained Money to Go and Collect It Sent to Gaol
A mythical fortune waiting to be picked up by her in Blue Mountain towns, formed the basis of a story told…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Kept Busy Pandemonium at Town Hall Meeting Speakers Howled Down Protest Against Repudiation Policy
The meeting held last night to protest against the financial proposals of the New South Wales Government was one of the wildest ever held in Sydney Town Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First Awards for Newcastle Show District School Exhibits Police Ruse in S.P. Betting Case Gave Money to Tram Conductor Innocent Decoy
How a tram conductor was used as an innocent decoy for police officers, who were endeavoring to trap an alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court
Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., occupied the bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday morning. David Brock, 50, was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court
Thomas Sumner, 20, of Fanning-street, East Greta, was charged before Mr. M. I. Meagher, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday with having, at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Woman Sent to Gaol
Sentence of a month's imprisonment was passed on Helen Buist Humphreys, 38, after she had pleaded "Guilty" to five charges of imposition and fraudulent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Tuesday, February 17. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Wharf Labourer Gaoled
George Morrough, 55, wharf labourer, was sent to gaol for seven days, for having solicited for immoral purposes, in Darby-street, Newcastle, on February 13…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Judge Accused "Partiality for Crown" M.L.A. Sent to Gaol Adelaide
After Albert Augustine Edwards, 40, a member of the Legislative Assembly for Adelaide, and a member of Adelaide City Council, had been sentenced to five years'…
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