Drunken Driver Fined Police Story Preferred SYDNEY
Although medical evidence was called to show that defendant was suffering from a disease known as splenomegalia, and that if his speech was thick, his eyes…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1936
3,714 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 39 of 186
Doctor in Tears "Murder Charge Is Bunkum" Missing Wife London
At the resumed trial of Dr. Buck Ruxton charged at the Manchester Assizes with the murder of his wife and a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →State Parliament Methods of Police More Charges in Parliament Sydney
More charges against police officers were made last night in the Legislative Assembly, and it was stated that members of all…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Safety Zones Plea for Use at Night Suggestion by Jury Sydney
A recommendation that the safety zones used during the day should also be utilised at night, with adequate illumination, was made by the jury to-day when George…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →40-Hour Week New Zealand Workers Court to Be Instructed Wellington (N.z.)
Amendments to the Industrial Conciliation Arbitration Act prepared by the Minister for Labour (Mr. H. T. Armstrong) include provision for a basic wage for adult…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alleged Assault on Police Doctor Is Charged Sydney
When a charge against him of having assaulted Constable Wickham in the execution of his duty at Double Bay last night was read at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder Charge Remanded Sydney
At the Central Police Court to-day Boyd Sinclair. 17 a packer, charged with the murder at Homebush on September 23, of John smillie, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Commissioner of Police
Mr. T. J. Shannon (Lab., Phillip) asked the Minister in charge of the House if he were aware that there had appeared in the Press a statement that the Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Youth Sentenced at Sessions Robbed Houses in Newcastle Sydney
Herbert Lewis Edwards. 18, pleaded guilty to seven charges of housebreaking at the Quarter Sessions to-day, and was sentenced by Judge Sheridan to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Thursday, March 12. (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Fined for Betting
John Williams, 28, a clerk, was fined £15, costs 8/, in default imprisonment for 31 days, when he pleaded "Guilty" to having made a bet at Merewether on…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Sent to Gaol ex-University Lecturer Stole From Council Sydney
Sentencing George Gray Russell, 58, accountant, to four months' imprisonment on each of seven charges, and three months on each of 11 charges of stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →In Defence of Doctor Big Murder Trial London
Counsel concluded their addresses to the jury in the case in which, at the Manchester Assizes, Dr. Buck Ruxton. is charged with the murder…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trial of Doctor Double Murder Charge "Fantastic Story" London, March 11
When the trial was resumed at the Manchester Assizes of Dr. Buck Ruxton, charged with the murder of his wife and a nursemaid, Mary Rogerson, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Charlestown Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)
Inspector Hoole, of the Lake Macquarie Shire Council, proceeded against Robert Skillings on a charge of having fished from the Swansea bridge. A further charge…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Go Underground" Victorian Miners' Threat Police Called in Objection to Non-unionists MELBOURNE
There was excitement at the Sunbeam mine at Korumburra, in the Dandenong district to-day, when five miners, led by two union officials, ceased work as a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Union Given 14 Days Court Cancels Registration Port Kembla Strike Sydney
"We regretfully' come to the conclusion that there is no course open to us but to cancel the registration of the industrial union,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Taxi-men's Life in the Court To-day "Not A Bed Of Roses"
A taxt-driver's lot, like that of a policeman, is not a happy one, At least that was what Mr. H. L. Wheeler claimed at Newcastle Summons Court to-day, when he pleaded guilty for four taxi-drivers who had left their cars unattended on the ranks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Remand
Before Mr. H. Curry. J.P. at the Newcastle Police Court to-day, James O'Flyn (27). laborer, was charged with having yesterday used a motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →12 Years' Gaol Man Collapses in Court Guilty of Wounding Sydney
Found guilty of having maliciously wounded Joe Wignall, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, Norman Stanley Gordon Smith, 25, labourer, was sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Capital Assault Charge SYDNEY
For the Central Criminal Court on Monday, 192 Jurors (four panels) have ben summoned for service at the trial of seven men on a capital…
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