Magistrate's Greetings
At the conclusion of the business before the Newcastle Police Court yesterday, the Magistrate (Mr. G. A. Stevenson) extended to the staff, legal profession, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1932
4,218 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 211
Police Baffled Theft of Mailbag in W.A. PERTH
No clue has been discovered in connection with the theft of a mail-bag containing £800 from a country train on Monday night. The train left Perth at 8…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charged with Resisting Arrest Laborer Remanded
Charged with having used indecent language in Perkin-street yesterday, and with having resisted Constable Robinson in the execution of his duty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Thursday, December 31. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Drunkenness
Three first offenders, charged with drunkenness, were dealt with, small penalties being imposed in each instance…
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Apparatus seized by police and alleged to have been used as an illicit still in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Little Crime in Maitland Police Figures
Maitland to-day boasts of the fact that its most serious crime during 1931 was one case of assault with violence…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Busy Crimes of Violence Grow Decrease Elsewhere
Figures in relation to crimes and other offences perpetrated in the big police district controlled from Newcastle by Superintendent Small during the year…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Illicit Still Police Raid at Wickham One Man Arrested
With full steam up, and liquor in process of production, an illicit still was discovered by a police squad, in a shed at the rear of a house in Charles-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charge Fails Railway Clerk in Court SYDNEY
Holding that at the time of the alleged offence the defendant was not employed upon the railway line, so as to make him a person referred in the section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Went to Police Station in Nightdress Attempt to Choke, Is Claimed Sydney
Redfern police received a shook at 3.30 a.m. to-day, when wearing nothing but a nightdress a woman stumbled into the station gasping out a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Many Hold-ups Three Men Remanded Heavy Bail Granted Strong Opposition by Police MELBOURNE
Detectives arrested three men yesterday on charges relating to the series of hold-ups which have occurred in Melbourne in the last six months. One man was alleged to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Discovery of Second Moonshine Plant at Wickham Police Raid This Morning 3000 Gallons of Rum Seized Widespread Operations Suspected Three Arrests
Evidence of what they believe to be an illicit rum traffic of huge proportions was found by the police early this morning, when they raided an unoccupied house next to the place in which an elaborately…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Police Court
Charged with vagrancy, and the theft of a bag of sugar from D. Mitchell and Co., Ltd., James Ferguson, 48, labourer, who appeared before Mr. T. A. Doolan,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shots Stop Fugitive Midnight Chase at Surry Hills Theft Suspect Sydney
Two shots fired by police at a fleeing man early this morning caused him to fall flat on the ground fearful of more…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cows Stampede Mysterious Explosion Police Investigating Sydney
A mysterious explosion which occurred to-night on the property, of Mr. James Livingstone, of Peakhurst, is being investigated by the police. The explosion shook…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Illicit Liquor Police Find Second Plant Quantity Seized
Newcastle police followed up closely their New Year's Eve raid on an illicit still in Charles-street, Wickham, by discovering in an adjacent house yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First Court Cases for the New Year
Newcastle's first batch of New Year drunks—nine of them—appeared before Mr. Chiplin, J.P., at New castle. Police Court to-day. Eight of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man with Revolver Police Rush to Hotel SYDNEY
Summoned by telephone to a hotel in William-street, City this afternoon, detectives surrounded the building, and, with little difficulty, arrested a man, who was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Alleged Possession of Illicit Still Man Before the Court
In connection with the recent raid at Wickham Richard Herbert Kempley, 30, laborer, was charged before Mr. Chiplin, J.P., at Newcastle Police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Close on Trail Police After Yatala Escapee ADELAIDE
The police are hot on the trail of Ernest Albert Richards, who made a daring escape from Yatala Prison on Thursday. After a sensational chase by two…
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