Appeal Upheld Police Conrt Conviction
The appeal of John Johnson against his conviction on a charge of using insulting words to Elizabeth Dodds at Kurri on November 29, 1930, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1931
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Sent to Gaol University Graduate's Lapse Charges of Dishonesty Melbourne
James McGowan Dairymple, 29, was sentenced at the Criminal Court to three years' imprisonment on each of three charges of dishonesty, the sentences to be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Prepared Perth Unemployed March PERTH
In anticipation of a demonstration by unemployed, police armed and carrying batons, were on duty in the vicinity of the Treasury Building from 2 o'clock this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Women Fight Tea Party Disturbance Police Called in Sydney
Glebe police this afternoon found themselves called upon to investigate an unusual case in Caroline-street, Glebe, where 50 women attending an afternoon tea…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Interference Court and Railway Union Domestic Troubles Melbourne
In the Arbitration Court to-day, Judge Beeby ex pressed, the view that certain powers of the Court in connection with industrial disputes should not be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Should Police Wear a Soldier's Badge? Returned Men in Protest Alleged Misuse Muswellbrook
Returned soldiers are considerably incensed at the admission of a policeman in giving evidence that he, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Not Trust's Job" Control of City Traffic City Council Threat Solution is Police Supervision
Newcastle City Council has decided to inform Newcastle Transport Trust that it is relinquishing its control of traffic from May 1. The Transport Trust disclaims any responsibility for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Southern Coal Application for Wage Cut Court's Ruling "Matter for Whole Industry" MELBOURNE
The Arbitration Court yesterday reserved served for further consideration the applications of the Bellambi Coal Company, Ltd., and others, against the Australian,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol Penalty Imposed Cessnock Bookmaker Sentenced Money Refunded
Alexander Giddings, Cessnock bookmaker, found guilty of the misappropriation of £860 was sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Six Years' Gaol Elderly Man Sentenced SYDNEY
Convicted at the Central Criminal Court last week on at charge of having caused strychnine to be taken by his nephew, John Rixon, thereby endangering his life,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cessnock Police Court
At the Cessnock Police Court yesterday before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., Frank Boyce was charged with fraudulently converting £6 belonging to Ernest Salisbury,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Watched House Charge of Stealing
An order to be of good behavior for two years on a surety of £20, and to make restitution of £2 15s 4d, was made by the magistrate, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Licensing Court
Leonard Laverty, Licensee of the Locomotive Hotel, was granted permission to make alternations and additions to the Premises, and to use portion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Australian Charged Rickshaw Puller's Death MADRAS, March 30
Captain Harry Darby, an Australian, was charged by the police with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, in connection with the shooting of a rickshaw…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Children's Court Remanded
Percy George Curley, 20, engineer, was remanded to April 14, on a charge of having committed an offence against a girl aged 15 years and three months, at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →District Court Defended Divorce Suit
At the Maitland District Court at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday, Stanley Walter Bagnall, of Kurri Kurri, petitioned for the dissolution of his marriage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Gashed Police Seize Razor Night Hunt for Man
Gashed across the chin, Jessie Bourke, 37, who is proprietress of a boarding-house in Morgan-street, Newcastle, was treated at Newcastle Hospital last night…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →'Bus Hold-up Accused Blames Drink Police Constable Commended
Lewis Linnertson, 20, was before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, charged with having behaved in a threatening manner. It…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"No One at Home" Attempt at Suicide Miner Before Court
"I don't know why I did it. My mind has been a blank for two or three hours now," said Harry Blair, 25, miles, according…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woman Victim of Razor Attack Boarding House in Morgan-street Police Search for Man
Detectives and plainclothes police are now scouring Newcastle and the surrounding districts for a man they wish…
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