Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Courts & crime, all years

Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

3,714 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 34 of 186

Theft of Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 9

At Wallsend Court to-day George Henry Rizzoli, of Wentworth-street, Wallsend, was charged with having stolen coal valued at is, the properly…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Kurri Police Court Two Men Committed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 11

Evidence was concluded at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday in the case in which John Orrick chief of the Kurri Kurri Caledonian Society charged…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Youth Sent to Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 9

William Brown (20), of Wallsend, who was remanded from last Tuesday on charges of having stolen a tent valued at £10, the property of…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

In the Courts Theft of Clothing

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 11

Frank Bennett, 42, laborer, was fined £5 for having stolen clothing and other articles, valued at £3, the property of Johanna McDonald, at Hamilton, on…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Police Beat Solicitors

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 15

In a social cricket match, played at Newcastle Sports Ground yesterday a police team beat a team of solicitors by 19 runs. Constable J. Pearson top-scored with 52 runs,…

Continued on Trove, page 15 →

EMBEZZLED £105 Gaol For Railway Porter SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 7

Six months' imprisonment was imposed on George Augustus Hassall Armstrong, 45, a railway porter, by Judge Curlewis at the Quarter Sessions to-day, when…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

MR. H. H. Macdougal Dead Sydney Stipendiary Magistrate SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 8

Mr. Herbert H. MacDougal, Stipendiary Magistrate, died at his home at Mosman to-day after an illness which lasted seven months. He was 60, and had been in…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Police Debate N.S.W. Team Beats Victoria SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 8

The New South Wales police debating team to-night defeated Victoria by 249 points to 232 in the second debate of the series for the Guy Cup. The subject was…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Motor Vehicles How Revenue is Spent Police and Traffic Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 2

The Commissioner for Road Transport (Mr. S. A. Maddocks) explained to-day how the revenue collected from the registration of motor vehicles and the…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Interstate Action Full Court's Ruling Writ Remains in Force Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1936 · page 8

The Full Court to-day dismissed with costs the application by the Green Star Trading Co. Pty., of Victoria, to set aside a write of summons served upon it in…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Stabbing Affray Man Charged with Murder Remanded in Brisbane Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 11

As a sequel to the Manly, stabbing affray early this morning, Arthur Owen, 39, single, labourer, appeared in the Wynnum Police Court this afternoon, charged…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Theft of Clothing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 22

Frank Bennett, 42, a labourer, was fined £5, in default imprisonment for 10 days, on each of two charges of theft. A month was allowed to pay the fines…

Continued on Trove, page 22 →

Theft of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 19

On the information of Robert Miller, of Bunn-street, Wallsend, George Henry Rizzoli, of Macquarie-street, Wallsend, was charged with having, at Wallsend,…

Continued on Trove, page 19 →

Wife Stays in Gaol Alleged Intent to Murder Gosford Remand Gosford

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 7

Charged at Gosford Police Court to-day with having shot at her husband. Frederick John Foster, 60, orchardist, with…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Theft of Vacuum Cleaner

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

Charged at Newcastle Police Court to-day with having stolen a vacuum cleaner valued at £10. Walter Collins (44), laborer, was sentenced to a…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wallsend Court Thursday, March [?] (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Three Months' Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 19

Sentences of three months' imprisonment, with hard labour, on each of three stealing charges, and a sentence of two months' imprisonment on a charge of…

Continued on Trove, page 19 →

Police Court Thursday, March 5 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Breaches of Totalisator Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 22

John Day, 28, a labourer, was fined £10, costs 10/, in default imprisonment for 21 days, when he pleaded "Guilty" to having made a bet at Georgetown on…

Continued on Trove, page 22 →

Young Man Broke His Bond Ordered to Gaol for Two Months

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 2

Married only a month, a youth of 20 was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labor at Newcastle Police Court to-day for…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Charged As a Spy German Describes His Career Wartime Services London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 1

After three Crown witnesses had given evidence in camera at the trial of Herman Goertz, a German, on two charges of…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Death Sentence on European Murder of Two Natives Rabaul

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 March 1936 · page 7

Ludwig Schmidt was to-day sentenced to death for the wilful murder of two natives on September 14, 1934…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →