Constable Dismissed Police Force Inquiry SYDNEY
As a result of the departmental inquiry into the conduct of Constables Arthur Wanham Edmunds and Leonard Jones, Edmunds has been dismissed from the Police…
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Courts & crime, 1931
4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 205
Dean Murder Adam Graham Freed "No Doubt of Innocence" Melbourne
The Crown Law Department to-day decided to enter a nolle prosequi in the case of Adam Graham, an engineer, who, in January, was committed by the Coroner…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock Tragedy John Eade Better Police Guard Bed
John Eade (54), whose left hand was amputated after having been chopped with an axe on Wednesday night is now progressing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Over-ruled Unemployed Procession Mr. Gosling's Stipulations Sydney
Arrangements having been completed for the unemployed to take part in a demonstration in the Sydney Domain to-morrow, application was made to the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Woman Blinded Outrage in New York Police Graft Scandal (Australian Press Association.) New York, March 4
Another outrage has complicated the search for the murderers of Vivian Gordon, who was found strangled in a park a few days ago, after promising to give evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unemployed Demonstration in Sydney Streets 600 MARCH Government Sanction No Trouble Big Police Contingent SYDNEY
Armed with the Government's authority, a procession of unemployed, orgnaised by the delegates' conference of the unemployed workers'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court
Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., presided at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. John J. Gill, of Bar, Bench-avenue, Merewether Junction, was fined 5/, with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Three Years' Gaol Bank Robber Sentenced SYDNEY
Found "Guilty" some days ago on a charge of having broken and entered the Sussex-street branch of the Primary Producers' Bank, during the Christmas…
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It was revealed to-day that the disturbance which occurred in the Parramatta Gaol, on Wednesday was more serious than supposed. One warder has his hand…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Constable Assaulted Three Men Sentenced SYDNEY
Cecil Charles Anderton, 22, labourer, was sentenced to three months' goal, and John Francis Thompson, 21, driver, and Charles Edward Moren, 30, butcher, were…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Glasgow's 2200 Police
The Secretary of State for Scotland has approved of the strength of Glasgow City Police Force being increased to 2290, made up as follows—One chief constable, two…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Friday, March 6. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Drunkenness
Five persons were dealt with for drunkenness, nominal penalties being imposed on each…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Years' Gaol Guilty of Embezzlement WOLLONGONG
At the Quarter Sessions to-day. Albert James Baxter, who was found "Guilty" on three charges of embezzlement from the Wollongong branch of the Metropolitan…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Affray on Ship Young Engineer Charged SYDNEY
At the Central Police Court to-day, Ernest Sinclair Oldfield, 24, third engineer on the steamer Sierra, was charged with having maliciously wounded Michael…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Heard in Court
Sergeant Noble, at Newcastle Court: What condition was the house in? Witness: It needed painting badly. Mr. Reid, solicitor: You mean that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alderman Fined £50 Interest in Agreement Magistrate Sympathises Sydney
The Magistrate (Mr. McMahon) at the Central Summons Court to-day expressed regret at having to impose a fine of £50 on Richard Ernest Wilson,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Forgery Scheme Food Relief Tickets Man Sent to Gaol Sydney
Convicted at the Central Police Court today on a charge of having incited Ernest Barber to commit forgery, James John Wilson, 42, was sentenced by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unusual Defence Man Charged With Bigamy First Wife Was Bigamist Melbourne
An unusual case was heard in the City Court to-day when Albert J. Cross, a labourer, of Mt. Evelyn was charged with bigamy. It was alleged that he…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Confessed to Murder Woman Acquitted in Paris PARIS, March 6
A Polish woman, named Marie Paillet, was acquitted of the murder of her husband, though she candidly admitted shooting him. She said that on the night of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Arsenic in Stomach "Suicide," Say Police SYDNEY
Police who carried out inquiries to-day into the death of Stanley Leabeater, 31, in the Parramatta Hospital, on February 23, say that the man committed suicide…
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