Former Police Officers Honoured
Imperial Service medals were presented to a number of retired members of the Civil Service and Police at Government House. These were handed to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1936
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Kicked in Head Constable's Allegation Six Men Charged Sydney
The allegation that he had been knocked down and kicked about the head was made by Constable Jordan at the Central Police Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Debts Court Verdict for Plaintiff
A verdict for £6/2/6, with costs and witnesses' expenses amounting to £3/3/6, was given in favour of the plaintiff, when Thomas Germon, Stratford, North Coast,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Search Area Combed for Missing Man SYDNEY
After combing the scrub country in the Manly district during the day in an endeavour to find William Morris, 28, of Balmain, who has been missing from a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Plaintiff Fortunate" Meals in Country Cells Action Against Police Sydney
Questioned during the hearing of the action against Sergeant Dick and Constable William Thomas Grover, of Richmond, for alleged unlawful arrest and imprisonment,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Rabbits Kept Used for Training Dogs Police Action at Lismore Lismore
Police investigating reports regarding the harbouring of rabbits in Lismore to-day discovered 17 at one home. The rabbits were taken possession of by the police…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Judge Markell Royal Commissioner Police and Betting Restricted to Assembly Charges SYDNEY
Judge Markell was appointed to-day by the Executive Council as Royal Commissioner to investigate charges against members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In Court To-day. It Takes Two Policemen To "Take" O'Brien
Harold Lawrence O'Brien, 38, laborer,—the man who is unsafe to arrest single-handed—Admitted, by the police, to be a good worker and all right when sober, but described by the same police as a terror when he's drunk—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Charged Alleged Assault at Carrington Magistrate Reprimands Man in Court
The story of an alleged assault on a seaman at Carrington on February 25 was told before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M., in Newcastle Police Court yesterday. After…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Pay Costs Wrong Men Charged Magistrate's Criticism
Twice within a few days, London magistrates recently ordered men arrested by detectives to be released, the accused person in each case…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Nine Months' Gaol
Albert George Leonard Henry, 18, a labourer, who had pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having committed an offence against a girl at Congewai on January 31…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two for Trial Yalgoo Murder Charge Court on Hotel Lawn Perth
The Coroner to-day committed Rose Marie McDonnell and Ernest John Taylor for trial on a change of having murdered Hector Alexander McDonnell, whose…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alleged Assault Verdict Exonerates Policemen SYDNEY
A verdict for the defendants was given at the Parramatta District Court to-day in the case in which Horace Gordon Hurst, of Kurrajong, claimed £400…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Motor Mechanic Charged Breaking and Entering Alleged
Evidence concluded this morning at Maitland Quarter Sessions in the case in which Norman James Olsen (34). motor mechanic, pleaded not guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Shortage of Police
Mr. C. A. Sinclair (U. C. P., Namoi) asked whether the Chief Secretary (Mr F. A. Chaffey) was aware that notwith-standing his statement that country police…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charge Against Police
Speaking on the motion for the adjournment of the House, Mr. C. C. Lazzarini (Lab., Marrickville) said he wished to protest against a traffic matter. He read…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Court Wednesday, March 11. (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded
In order to give him the chance that he had asked for, the Magistrate remanded Harold Lawrence O'Brien, 38, a labourer, until June 3 without bail…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scorned Lover Attack on Girl Four Years Gaol
Remarking that there was hardly a redeeming feature in the case, Mr. Justice MacKinnon, at Leeds Assizes, recently sentenced a rejected lover,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Dangerous Driving "Licences Will be Cancelled" Warning by Magistrate Sydney
At the Traffic Court to-day, before Mr. Farrington, S.M., Randall Vernon James Bush, of Macquarie-street, Junction, Newcastle, who appeared on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plight of Youths Spooner Replies to Magistrate Govt. and Workless Sydney
Comments by Mr. Williams, S.M., about the plight of unemployed youths formed the subject of a statement to-day…
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