Kurri Police Court
Mr. Reed, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Kurri Police Court on Wednesday. Thirteen men were charged with playing…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1931
4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 205
Theft Charge
Richard sheddon McLeod (22). cycle mechanic, was remanded to March 11 by Mr. Stevenson, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol Comforts
Reformation up-to-date.—[?]sc the Governor thinks smokes and music are an important factor in gaol life, Ohio (U.S.A.) gaols now offer girl convicts radio, gramophones and cigarettes to puss away the irksome hours…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Theft of Cutlery
Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen cutlery valued at £1, the property of Arthur George Roberts, at Newcastle, on February 21, Thomas Joseph…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Thursday, February 26. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Gaol Ordered in Knife Case
Principal in the Hunter-street disturbance in which two men were menaced with a knife, Charles Sutton, 37, wharf labourer, appeared for sentence on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault Charge Struck Out
There was no appearance of the parties in the case in which Edward Russell White, Tea Gardens, charged Charles Clayton, Oriental Hotel, Newcastle, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Italians Charged Alleged Stabbing Affray LEETON
An argument between Australia residents and Italians, at Leeton, last night, culminated, it is alleged, in the foreigners producing knives and using them on the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle Theft Fruitless Search for Work SYDNEY
The theft of three bicycles, which had been left in a street at Newcastle, and the stealing of a horse at Enfield, were described at the Campsie Court to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Freshman's Death "Simulated Act as Murder" LONDON, February 25
The "Daily Telegraph" says that it is believed that Francis Ellis, 19, the Cambridge college student who was found dead, bound and gagged, simulated the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Women Police First in Queensland BRISBANE
From 60 applicants, the first two women police in Queensland were selected to-day. They are Miss Zara Dare, of Brisbane and Miss Ellen O'Donnell, of Gympie…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Timber in House Man Before Court
At Newcastle Police Court to-day, Normen Henry Pritchard, laborer, was charged with having had in his possession, at Carrington on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Police Brutality" Labour Council Complaints Two Dismissals Demanded Sydney
Allegations of brutality on the part of members of the police force were made by several speakers at to-night's meeting of the Trades and Labour Council held at…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Company's Deal Sale of Dredge Nereus Marine Court Inquiry Sydney
When the inquiry by the Commonwealth Marine Court into the cause of the foundering of the dredge Nereus in Bass Strait, with the loss of two lives, was resumed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hurricanes And Floods Sweep 200 to Death in Fii Islands "Go to Gaol to Learn Trade" Bitter Comment at Cessnock Class Refused
After yean of agitation for plumbing class to be established at Cessnock Technical School, Cessnock Council was advised last night by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →He Fired at the Police "Thought Them Burglars" Now in Reception House Sydney
Suddenly appearing at a window, a man fired a revolver, the bullet missing Constable Sherwin's head by inches, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wants to "Retire" Al Capone in Court Tired of Reformers Chicago, February 25
"Scarface" Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, spent to-day in court, on trial on charges of vagrancy and contempt of court, to which he pleaded "Not…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Immense Profits" Colonial Sugar Company Attack in Court "Not Entitled to Wage Cuts." MELBOURNE
Opposing the claim in the Arbitration Court to-day to reduce the wages of enginemen and firemen by 10 per cent., Mr. H. C. Gibson, General Secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court
At the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Messrs. C. J. Mannall and L. Maher, Js.P., Charles James Crothers, 52, was charged with having behaved…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Attempted Burglary
On Thursday night an attempt was made to break into the premises of Hat and Company, Ltd., jewellers, of High-street West Maitland. The firm also…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Court Friday, February 27. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Remanded
On the application of the Police Prosecutor (Sergeant J. Philipson), Richard Sneddon McLeod, 22, cycle mechanic, was remanded to March 11 on a charge of…
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