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 51 of 186

Kopet in Court Charged with Train Murder "Admitted Disguise" Remanded for Eight Days MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 7

Herbert Kopet, 23, a labourer, address unknown, who is charged with having .murdered Harold Speering on the Rockhampton…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Attempted Stealing Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 12

The Police Prosecutor (Sergeant J. L. Phillipon) applied for a remand in the case in which Keith Maxwell Potter, 29, labourer, was charged with having…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Sentenced for Vagrancy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 12

Adelaide Stella Healy, 52 home duties, was sentenced to three months imprisonment on a charge of vagrancy, at Newcastle, on a charge of vagrancy, at…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

MAITLAND—CESSNOCK—KURRI West Maitland Police Court Three Months' Sentence "Usual Confidence Trickery"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 9

Norman Charles Wills Search, 23, of Abbott-street, West Maitland, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment by Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., at the West…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

Three Brothers in Dispute Assault Charges at Cessnock

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 7

Three brothers were involved in an assault case at Cessnock Police Court to-day. Oswald Leslie Keith King, a Mount…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Charged Townspeople Bull with Broken Leg MUSWELLBROOK

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 8

Although one of its legs was broken, a young bull defied all attempts to capture it for two hours to-day. Traffic in the principal streets of the town came to a…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Police Court Monday, April 6 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Betting Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 12

Harold Williams, 28, labourer, was fined £15, with 10/ expenses, in default 31 days' imprisonment, when he pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having made a…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Remanded to Newtown Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 12

Stanley Vincnet Roberts, 45 labourer, was remanded to Newton Police Court on April 8. on a charge of having broken and entered the Enmore Vocational…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Handed Over to Police Suspect Battered by Householder Brisbane

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 7

After a struggle in his room at the rear of a barber's shop in James-street at 2.30 a.m. to-day, Mr. Patrick Loughlin, of Burleigh Heads, handed an…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Contract Dispute Railway Construction Appeal to High Court Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 8

Leave to appeal, was granted by the High Court to-day to Australian Iron and Steel Limited against the decision of the Full Court of New South Wales…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Police Investigating Woman's Death in London Has Sons in Australia London, April 5

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 7

Police are investigating the death of Mrs. Beatrice Sutton, who separated from her husband 20 years ago, and who has two sons farming in Australia. She was…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

At Cost of £7500 Alterations to George Hotel Approved by Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 5

Permission was granted, at Newcastle Licensing Court to-day, for alterations to be made to the George Hotel, Scott and Watt Streets…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Keep From Unions Firms Influence Juniors Allegation in Court Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 8

During the hearing before Judge Beebe in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day on an application by the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia, the…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Doctor's Children Question of Religion High Court Custody Claim Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 2

Special leave to appeal was sought in the High Court to-day against the judgment of the Full Court of Queensland, which reversed the decision of Mr…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Police "Framing" Starting Price Betting Cases Complaints to M.L.A. Royal Commission Told SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 7

That various persons, some of whose names he mentioned, had complained to him that they had been "framed" by the police in starting-price betting cases, was…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 11

Mr. E, A. Mahony, P.M occupied the bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday morning. John Henry Field was charged with…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Grafton Sessions Falsification of Books Man Sentenced to Gaol Grafton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 7

John Hayes Campbell, 43, whose defalcations were said to have been in the vicinity of £3700, In Grafton Sessions today charged his plea of "Not guilty" to…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Assault Case at Kurri

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 9

Charged with having assaulted Charles Christianson at Kurri on March 7, Walter W. Perkins, of Hamilton, pleaded guilty before Mr. E. A…

Continued on Trove, page 9 →

"Murder Man" at the Strand

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 11

Action docs not lag on instant in "Murder Man," the main, attraction this week at the Strand Theatre, which stars Spencer Tracy and…

Continued on Trove, page 11 →

Licensing Court Licences Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 3

The licence of the Criterion Hotel, Wickham, was transferred from John James Lachlan Stevens, to Marty Waugh. The licence of the Commercial Hotel,…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →