Crime Statistics North-east District Increase in Court Work
Crime statistics for the huge northeastern police district, which extends from Woy Woy in the south to Taree in the north, and includes Cassilis, Merriwa,…
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Courts & crime, 1931
4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 205
Two Committed for Trial Daring Hold-ups Remarkable Story Said to Have Been Told to Police Court Statement Visits to Newcastle and Suburban Shops with Masks and Revolvers
Among the voluminous evidence in the cases before Newcastle Police Court connected with the recent Newcastle hold-ups, was a remarkable statement said to have teen made by one of the youths charged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Justice Declines to Hear Case McTlERNAN and Watersiders High Court Sits Melbourne
"I am not going to adjudicate in this case because of a controversy elsewhere," said Mr. Justice McTlcrman, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Wet" Victory in U.S.A. Short-lived Federal Court Reverses-judgment Law Still Bone 'Dry New York
Short-lived was the triumph of the "Wets." Federal Judge William Clark, who ruled the prohibition law to be…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stealing Charge Pending
Cecil Patrick Maher (27), laborer, was remanded to Monday by Mr. Stevenson, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day on a charge of vagrancy at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Assault Case Remanded
James Rupert Mellon (47) was charged at Kurri Police Court to-day with having assaulted Ellen Jones at Kurri on December 25 and robbed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol Escapee May Have Crossed Border SYDNEY
Stanley Mahoney (30), convicted housekeeper, who escaped from Mount Mitchell Prison Camp. 30 miles from Glen Innes, on December…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Tuesday, January 6. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Bond Forfeited
There being no appearance of Frank Joseph Healy, 30, independent, to answer charges of having travelled in a railway carriage on January 3, between and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Funeral of Murder Maniac Sydney
The funeral of john Thomas Kennedy, aged 42, who murdered Constables Allen and Andrews at Bondi Junction on Saturday, took place in the Roman Catholic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Act Didn't Act No Relief for Tenant Magistrate's Decision Sydney
In spite of the recent amendment of the Landlord and Tenant Act, an applicant at the Redfern Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wharfies' Licenses Awaiting Court Decision
The issue of wharf laborers' licensed, which was to have been commenced this week, has been suspended pending a decision of the High Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bank Hold-up Young Man Charged Bail Fixed at £1000 MELBOURNE
George White, the young, man arrested here last Saturday week, on a charge of complicity in the recent bank hold-up at Alexandria, Sydney, appeared at the City…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chinese Robbed Police Make Four Arrests SYDNEY
The police to-night arrested four men, alleged to be concerned in a sensational raid on a house of a Chinese market gardener, at Mascot, on the night of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →High Court Justices Swearing-in Ceremony MELBOURNE
A crowded court, including a large representation of the legal profession, were witnesses of the swearing-in to-day of the two new High Court Justices. Dr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bank Hold-up Man Again Before Court SYDNEY
George Thomas White, or Jeffery Davis, 46, dealer, was to-day remanded until January 16 on £500 ball on a charge of having, on December 21,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Wanted to Sign the Pledge" Ex-soldier in Court
A returned soldier was charged in Newcastle Police Court to-day with drunkenness. When his name was called the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Women Detained Incidents at The Gap Pathetic Story to Police Sydney
Two women were detained by the police at the Gap, at Watson's Bay, to-night. Missing from her home in mascot since December 23, a small well-dressed woman…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Crook's Shop "Halved the Money" Story of Hold-up Alleged Statement to Police
A cousin of one of the accused was one of the chief witnesses for the prosecution in the further charges, arising out of the recent hold-ups in Nowecastle and district.,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court Lies "95 Per Cent.," Says S.M. Woman Committed Sydney
Mr. McMahon, S.M., at the Central Court to-day, after fining Mrs. Emily Guerney for shoplifting, committed her for trial on a charge of perjury,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hearing on Friday Appeal to High Court Abolition of Upper House Sydney
The Sate Government received advice to-day that the High Court will hear its application on Friday next, in Melbourne, for special leave to appeal from the…
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