Theft of Varnish
Francis Pearson Burnett, 38, a storeman, was fined £5, in default imprisonment for 10 days, when he pleaded "Guilty" to the theft of two tins of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1937
3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 189
Charge of Assault
On a charge of having assaulted William Blank, at The Entrance, on January 7, Frederick Charlesworth, 38, a carpenter, was odered to enter into a bond of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Not the Same McCABE Magistrate's Alarm
When the name of Stanley McCabe was called to answer a charge at the Newcastle Summons Court to-day the Stipendiary Magistrate…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Thursday, January 21 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Monaghan Bound Over
Charged with having consorted with reputed criminals between July 17, 1936, and January 16, 1937 George Monaghan, 34, a labourer, was bound over, self in £20,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Advised to Live Elsewhere After Spending Two Months in Gaol
After sentencing William Ernest Breen (40), musician, to two months' hard labor on charges of theft at the Newcastle Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Racial Purity in Germany Unmarried Mother Is Sent to Gaol Berlin
A court in Hanover has sentenced an unmarried mother to 14 days' imprisonment for refusing to disclose the name of the child's father…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Debts Court Verdict for Defendant
A verdict for the defendant was returned in the case in which Leslie Saunders, Arthur-street, Mayfield, proceeded against the Commissioner for Road…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Novel Suggestion by Magistrate Husband to Do Wife's Housework "Find Out Just What She Does"
The suggestion that a husband should put on his wife's apron and carry out her household duties for a week to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Constable's Debts Resignation From Police Force Sydney
A former police constable told the Acting Registrar in Bankruptcy to-day that ha had resigned from the force to avoid…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Hunt Murder of Policeman Ex-convict Confesses Monroe (Michigan), January 21
A man-hunt which followed the discovery of the body of a State policeman with a bullet through the head resulted in the capture of an ex-convict, who…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Malingering Alleged Hospital Patient in Court BALLARAT
Unusual allegations were made against Desmond Sean McMahon, 36, when he appeared at the Police Court to-day on a charge of vagrancy…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →When It Pays to Be Polite Traffic Police Are Only Human
Constables were only human, and it was quite probable that motorists were more likely to be "booked" for traffic offences…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strike Talk Engineers Restive Court to Hear Claims To-day Sydney
According to union leaders unrest exists in all sections of the metal trades industry and employees are indignant at the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wyong Court Thursday, January 21 (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd). Case Against Ganger
Arthur Rayfield, of Dora Creek, a ganger, employed by Lake Macquarie Shire Council pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of having used offensive words to Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →18 Years' Gaol Young Jew Sentenced Murder of Nazi Agent
The Cantonal Tribunal of Grisons at Coire (Switzerland) delivered its verdict in the case of David Frankfurter, the young Yugoslav Jew, who was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Toronto Theft
William Ernest Breen, 40, a musician, was sentenced to imprisonment for two months with hard labour on each of two charges of theft at Toronto on January…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Friday, January 22 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, P.m.) Remanded for Treatment
Remanded from Belmont on a charge of having placed stones across the Pacific Highway to prevent the free passage of vehicles on January 21, Harry Smith, 45,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bankruptcy Court Examinations Concluded
The public examinations of three bankrupts were declared concluded by the Deputy Registrar in Bankruptcy. Aubrey Ivan Jones, Everton-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Calling All Cars! Police Wireless in Newcastle
No time will be lost in the installation of wireless sets in Newcastle police cars to assist in the detection and prevention…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fresh Clue Wedderburn Mine Murder Victim Still Unidentified Melbourne
A former Irish soldier, who is believed to have been the victim of the Wedderburn mine shaft tragedy carried papers on which the name Clelland was…
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