Antiquities at Hamilton Post Office and Police Station Aldermen Complain
Hamilton aldermen are dissatisfied with what are called their "antiquated" post-office and "disgraceful" police…
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Courts & crime, 1935
4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 208
Struggle in Street Constable's Story in Court "Crowd Watched"
A long fight between a constable and four men in Railway and [?]ishopsgata-street. Wickham, on December 22 was described at…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Coramba Inquiry Coastal "Coffin" Ships Court Reserves Decision Melbourne
Many "coffin" ships were plying along the Australian coast, declared Mr. J. W. Clark, at the Marine Court of Inquiry, to-day, into the foundering of the coaster…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hold-up Charge Butcher's Story to Court Two Men for Trial Sydney
A story of a hold-up in a butcher's shop on January 3 was told at Campsie Court to-day, when John William Thompson…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Amazing Escape of Convicts in U.S.A. Kidnapped the Gaol Board Used Them As Shield When Getting Away Stir in San Francisco San Francisco
Seven prisoners suddenly stormed a room where the San Quentin Prison Board of five leading Californian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gold Clause Apprehension in United States Huge Market Losses Adverse Court Decision Feared (Australian Press Association.) New York, January 15
A situation rapidly approaching the panic stage on the foreign exchange markets was checked late to-day, when the Federal Reserve Bank, acting apparently…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Preacher Sentenced Six Months in Gaol MELBOURNE
The statement that he would prefer to take the lash rather than serve six months in gaol, was made by Herbert Harlow Janetzki, 38, preacher and evangelist, at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Assault Charge
Stating that George Jesse was in hospital, the Acting Police Prosecutor (Sergeant A. Brodie) applied for a remand in the case in which George McDonald,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Murder Victim In Creek
LOCAL POLICE and detectives just before removing the body of James Albert Ross from Sugarloaf Creek (Victoria). There were two bullet wounds in the head, and the body was weighted…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Escape From Gaol Aided by Accomplice SYDNEY
Police and gaol officials are searching for John Kingsley Clarkson, 24, who escaped from Cootamundra Gaol early to-day. Police believe that he was aided by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Thursday, January 17 (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Indecent Language
John White, 45, seaman, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment, for having used indecent language in Hunter-street on Wednesday. On a further…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bought Stolen Tobacco Man Sentenced to Three Months Singleton
Great interest was manifested in the case at the Police Court in which Charles William Maguire, a young man, was chargeod with having had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"In Self-defence" Wife Attacked Husband Magistrate's Sympathy Melbourne
Although she brought a charge of assault against her husband. Alfred Johannsen, in the Collingwood Police Court to-day, Isabella Johannsen said that in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Contempt Case Seven Days' Gaol "Go on Hunger Strike" Sydney
At the Central Police Court to-day; William Cottman was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for contempt of Court…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Car Murder Victim's Mother Collapsed Man Recovering Brisbane
The young woman, Phyllis Reiger, whose strangled body was found in a car in a garage at the rear of a boarding-house in Rockhampton at an early hour…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Why Elector Refused to Vote at Fed. Poll "It's a Duty," Said Magistrate
That he had refrained from voting at the last Federal elections because he could not conscientiously vote for any of the candidates offering, was stated by an elector in Newcastle Police Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lindbergh Murder Handwriting Expert's View Defence Case Untenable Flemington (N.j.), January 16
Four more handwriting experts, testifying for the State, to-day further identifield Bernard Richard Hauptmann's hand-writing as the same as that on the ransom…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →World Court American Adherence Favoured by President Washington, January 16
President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress to-day urging American adherence to the World Court. He said: "The movement will make…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Man in Sulky Hold-up and Robbery Alleged Police Make Two Arrests Sydney
Held up near Prospect yesterday afternoon by two men in a sulky, who, it is alleged, threatened to shoot him if he did not hand over his money. Thomas Irwin,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Several Killed Bandits and Police Machine-gun Battles in America Attempted Bank Hold-up (Australian Press Association.) New York, January 16
Killings by gangsters and reprisals by police officials in several parts of the United States to-day assumed interesting proportions…
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