Police at Relief Issues Wollongong
The Miners' Delegate Board has carried a resolution to forward an objection to the Government against police being present sent at the issue of relief orders, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1931
4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 205
Fifty Homes Flooded Severe Storm at Cessnock Police Warning
As a climax to the week of rain and foods, a severe storm broke over Cessnonk about seven p.m. yesterday. With heavy thunder…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Widow's Death Stocking Round Throat Wound on Head Police Suspect Murder SYDNEY
Detectives from the C.I.B. and Regent-street station are completely baffled by the death in a residential at 93 Reservoir-street, Surry Hills, to-day, of Anna…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Transfers
Several police transfers have been announced. Among them are: Sergeant Rochester, from Wickham to Inverell: Sergeant Thompson, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lorndale Court
In classing Lorndale Court as the best and most modernly equipped court in the district one is not going too far in praise of this club's playing area. With a surface…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Saturday, April 25. (Before Mr. A. G. Chiplin, C.p.s.) Drunkenness
Patrick Allen, 43, seaman, was fined 10/, in default two days' imprisonment, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder Warrant Dramatic Arrest MELBOURNE
Charles Eldridge, 26, steward, for whom a warrant was issued last Monday for the murder of Mathias Handley, and the attempted murder of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Men Charged (Continued from page 1.) Another Commital Some Cases Withdrawn
Sergeant Monday then gave evidence in the charges against Towers and Miller, of having, at Carrington, on or about March 9. broken into the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brief Ride in Car Before Crash Illegal Use Charged Against Two Maitland Case
The story of a brief ride in a car, which was followed by a crash, in which one of the occupants was injured, was told at the West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Swam River Daring Escapee Bolted From Police Station SYDNEY
Feigning drunkenness, a man who had been placed in the dock at the Parramatta Police Station last night, suddenly jumped over the railings and dashed into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mystery Death Detectives Are Puzzled Murder or Suicide? Neck Tied With Silk Stocking SYDNEY
The only definite fact revealed by the post-mortem on the body of Emma Philbrook, 50, a widow, of Surry Hills, who was found dead in her bedroom yesterday with a stocking tied about her throat, was that death was due to suffocation…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Bus War May End in Court All Negotiations Break Down Trust to Meet
All negotiations having broken down, the battle between the Transport Trust and the 'busowners, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cessnock Police Court
For having placed five shots in improper order at Abermain No. 2 colliery, John Wallace, a shot-firer, who pleaded guilty, was fined 5s, with 8s…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Loan on a Watch Licensee Charged Police Case Fails
A charge of having accepted a watch and chain from George W. L. Baker alias J. Sharp, in pledge for liquor, made against William Stott,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Carlton Murder Victim's Stepson Charged Remanded to May 4 MELBOURNE
An allegation that the accused had confessed to both crimes, was made by Senior-detective Bruce, at the City Court, this afternoon, when Charles Eldridge, 26…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Maitland District West Maitland Police Court Heavy Fines
Novel Thomas Jeffries, 18, of Catherine-street, West Maitland, and John Smith, 18, of High-street, West Maitland, on remand, appeared before Mr. D. W. Reed,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Licensing Court
Alton Thomas Cusick, licensee of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted three booth licenses for the Newcastle Racecourse on May 4, by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Maximum Penalty Solicitor Sent to Gaol MELBOURNE
Sentences totalling three and a half years with hard labour, were imposed by Justice Lowe to-day on Walter John Toohey, 62, member of a well-known firm…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court Monday, April 27. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Violent Prisoner
Arrested by Constable J. Rowan near the Strand Theatre on Saturday afternoon, for being drunk, Andrew Wilson, 29, labourer, used improper language and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police and May Day
In a statement he made to-day, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Gosling) said that reports had come to hand that trouble was likely to take place on May Day. He…
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