Investigations by Police Sydney
A long report compiled by Detective Sergeants Gallagher and Watkins relative to allegations concerning a letter demanding a corrupt payment…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1935
4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 208
Murder of Barmaid Prison Warder on Trial Rockhampton
The court was packed to-day long before the hearing began of the charge against John Thomas McQuade (39). prison warder, of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Abusive Woman Redfern Court Episode SYDNEY
After a magistrate at the Redfern Court had given a woman a fortnight in which to leave her home, after she had asked for a month, she loudly abused the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Action at Aberfield Miners Preparing Declarations Sydney
Replying to-day to a statement of the Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey), which characterised miners' complaints of vigorous police action at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →District Court Ship's Fireman's Claim Verdict for £37
Complaints about the condition of the food supplied to the crew of the steamer Dumosa were made by several witnesses in a ease heard by Judge Nield…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →TROUSSEAU London Court Case Necessities London. January 25
During a court case this week, a litigant declared that she had a trousseau of twelve sets of underclothing and twelve pairs of silk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tragedy at Fire Belief of Police "Safe Blown to Mislead" Inquest at Cessnock
Buried under a shattered brick wall, twisted sheets of galvanised iron and smouldering debris which crashed down on him when…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hauptmann Guilty of Killing Lindbergh Baby Was Sentenced to Death Many Sensations in Long Trial Verdict Was Received in Silence Then Hubbub Broke Out
FLEMINGTON (N.J.), Wednesday. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was to-day found guilty of the murder of the Lindbergh baby, and was sentenced to death…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tribal Law Obeyed by Aborigine Murderers Expert Tells Court Alice Springs
That Numberlin and Nangee, the two aborigines convicted at the Criminal Court yesterday of murder, had been ordered by the elders of their tribe to kill Kaiumen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Girl's Silence in Court Case Against Man to Be Deferred Sydney
Persistent refusal by a girl of 15 to answer questions at the Quarter Sessions to-day resulted in Judge White discharging the jury without giving…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Rufe Naylor and the A.J.C. Another Reference to High Court Sydney
Application on behalf of the A.J.C. Committee for leave to appeal to the Privy Council against the Full Court decision in the Rufe Naylor case was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Hauptmann Trial State's Case Closed Confusion in Court Clerical Man's Outburst (Australian Press Association.) Flemington (N.j.), February 12
The State closed its case against Bernard Hauptmann, who is charged with having murdered the Lindbergh baby, with a powerful address lasting four hours…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Prison Farm Escapee Four Months' Gaol for Theft FORBES
Frederick Hudson, who recently escaped from the Emu Plains prison farm, was committed for trial to-day at the Forbes Police Court on charges of having escaped…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Gaol Warder's Fall
Chief Warder Harold Phemister, 48, was on duty on the gaol wall at East Maitland yesterday morning when he became ill and fell into the grounds near…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Seven Days' Gaol
"I see you have been convicted before for this sort of thing," remarked ' Mr. Harrison, S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court to-day after William…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Strangled Her" Man Before Court Rockhampton Murder Rockhampton
The Rockhampton Police Court was thronged this morning when John McQuade appeared before Mr. A. H. O'Kelly, Police Magistrate, on a charge that, at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Daring Theft at Hamilton
In broad daylight yesterday a thief entered the premises of Eric Hull, in Gulliver-street, Hamilton, and stole money and jewellery…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Assault Charge Taxicab Driver's Complaint TOOWOOMBA
Arrested, following a complaint by a driver, William Grose, 23, labourer, was remanded to-day on a charge of having assaulted William Harris, and caused him…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Small Debts Court
The case in which Mary Gavin, of Charlestown, claimed £1 from W. Leyshon, dairyman, of Charlestown, whose cows she alleged had destroyed a gate…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Police Court Thursday, February 14. (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Committed for Trial
On two charges of breaking and entering, William Smith, 22, a labourer, was committed for trial at Newcastle Sessions on May 7. Bail was fixed at £40…
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