Fierce Struggle with Police Hobart
Hearing a suspicious sound in a public building early this morning, a policeman informed headquarters, and the place was surrounded. After waiting an hour, two…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1932
4,218 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 211
Murder Charge Woman Struck With Axe Husband Declared Insane Wollongong
On January 16, Mrs. Selden was attacked at Dapto by her husband, who struck her on the head with an axe, and she died the same evening. Selden was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Indian Mob Village Police Attacked Fired in Self-defence (Australian Press Association.) CALCUTTA, February 16
Incited by Congress leaders, a mob of about a thousand villagers armed with knives and sticks besieged the police station at Tarpur in the Monghyr district…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Can Woman Claim Damages? Was Named in Divorce Petition Full Court Issue Sydney
A most novel case shortly to be held before the State Full Court of three Judges involves the point as to whether a woman, having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Al Capone Tells Court "I Am a Spook" On Trial for Evading £200,000 Tax Jurymen Were Scared New York, January 4
"Pity the poor gangster," was the sorrowful plea to-day of "Scarface" Al Capone, the millionaire, overlord of Chicago's underworld, as he went…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Morpeth Police Court
Albert Dennis Dawson, of Morpeth, was charged before Mr. F. D. H. Sutherland, P.M., at the Morpeth Police Court yesterday, with having stolen a mowing…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Attache Charged Murder of Brother-in-law "Justifiable Homicide" Vienna, February 17
The jury unanimously returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in the case in which Manuel Godoy, an attache of the Guatemalan Legation in London, was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Housebreaker Sentenced Sydney
Sentence of 23 months' imprisonment was passed on Ernest Edward Devine, 28, by Judge Armstrong, at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Question of Distances Charge of Stealing Bulls Problem for Wyndham Police Wyndham
An interesting problem of distances confronts the Wyndham police in making an effective charge against Robert Anderson of stealing £769 worth of stud bulls from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Thursday, February 18. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Failed to Pay Train Fare
Fines of £2, costs 13/9, in default imprisonment for two days, were imposed on Jack Harris, 40, machinist, and John McCarthy, 34, labourer, who pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gandhi's White Woman Adherent Faithful Copyist Goes to Gaol Calcutta
Miss Slade, the American white woman follower of Gandhi, and prominent member of the National Congress, has been sentenced to three…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →U.S. Police Censor Greek Classic Players Arrested on Indecency Charge Humor in the Court Los Angeles
The police staged two raids on the performance by Los Angeles club women of the Greek play "Lysistrata" on the ground that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Contempt of Court." Master—Right or Wrong
Mr. Stevenson, S.M., receives an unusual salutation as he entered Newcastle Police Court to-day. A small fox ferrier let loose a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Street Incident Constable Uses Baton West Wallsend Court
An incident in which a police constable used his baton was described at the West Wallsend Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. A. Stevenson, S.M…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Studies in the Nude Artist Faces Police Charge Sydney
Charged with having obscene publications in his possession, apparently for sale, Ernest Thurlow, commercial artist, appeared to-day at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Shoot Trapper Man Hunt in Yukon Wastes MONTREAL, February 17
One of the greatest man hunts in the history of the North-west Territories, lasting for eight weeks, in midwinter blizzards and with the temperature below…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Assailed New Guard Anniversary Mr. Campbell in Defence SYDNEY
The Sydney Town Hall was crowded to the doors to-night on the occasion of the first anniversary of the formation of the New Guard organisation…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mira Bey Arrested Disobeyed Police Order Gandhi's Furniture Sold Calcutta, February 18
Miss Madeline Slade, daughter of an English admiral and a close friend of Mr. Gandhi, was arrested at her residence in Bombay early this morning, and was later…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Northern Miners Reply to Mr. Latham's Criticism Coal Industry 25 Rounded Up by Police Railway Department's Campaign Were Trespassers
Accommodation was severely taxed at West Maitland Police Court this morning when 25 men who were found camped near the water…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Five Years' Gaol Accountant Sentenced SYDNEY
Sentence of five years' imprisonment was imposed on Cecil Wyatt Dickinson, 37, accountant, of Sydney, when he was convicted at the Darlinghurst Sessions…
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