Licensing Court
An application by Eric Sinclair Reid, of High-street, West Maitland, for a transfer of an Australian wine licence to Hubert George Kerslake, of Horford Place,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1937
3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 189
Alleged Theft of Horse Hearing of Charge Continued
Evidence for the defence was heard at West Maitland Police Court to-day in the charge against John Vile Russell, of Homeville, of having stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Monday, February 22 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Drunkenness
Robert Barclay Kennedy, 24, a rigger, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment, for drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Commissioner of Police Says
"AVOID EXCESSIVE SPEED; EXCESSIVE SPEED IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A BIG MAJORITY OF THE ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES THAT OCCUR ON THE PUBLIC STREETS AND ROADS OF THIS STATE. IF AN ELEMENT OF DANGER…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Police Mean Safety Uniform as Deterrent to Recklessness
That the presence of uniformed officers on the highways reduced motor accidents by about 75 per cent. from the usual weekly average, was discovered by an…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Japanese Police "Tortured British Sailors" Charges Not Proved Tokio, February 22
Replying to interpellations accusing the Japanese police of torturing prisoners to extract confessions, in which the maltreatment of British sailors at Keelung in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Laws of State Effect in New Guinea Point for Full Court Sydney
Argument was heard to-day in the case in which the Full Court is being asked to grant rules nisi for a writ of habeas corpus and a writ of prohibition…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Theft Of Parrot
Charged at Newcastle Police Court to-day with having stolen a white corella parrot, Edward Kafer. darkest., Wallsend, was ordered to enter into…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →'Gold' Chocolates Invalid Informs Police Metallurgist Charged Wellington (N.z.)
A box of chocolates dropped by a woman in a shop, and picked up by a little girl, who gave them to no invalid woman for a birthday present, led to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →False Pretences Company Manager Sentenced SYDNEY
A sentence of 12 months' gaol was imposed on George Cross, 40, a company manager, at the Central Court to-day, on a charge of having obtained money…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court (Before Messrs. S. Snape and W. Johnston, Js.P.)
Cecil Carr, 25, was charged with being a disorderly person and having no visible means of support, at Cessnock Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Industrial Court
At the Industrial Magistrates' Court at Newcastle Courthouse today, Evangeline I. M. Thomas, trading as Thomas Brothers, butchers. Maitland-road…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Ingenious Ruse" Comment by Magistrate Possession of Stolen Horse
"I find that the defendant either stole the horse or feloniously received same, but am unable to say which; therefore he in convicted," said the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Electrocution at Guyra Water Tank Was Charged Guyra
How a Guyra resident, William Thomas Woodward, of Mallas-street, was electrocuted at a water tank at his home on February 9 was told at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Search for Girl Sydney
Police are searching for Margaret Jessie Salesby, 14½, of Haberfield, who disappeared from her home on January 26. The girl has written to her mother…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Small Debts Court Claim for Rent
A verdict for £7, with 25/ costs, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which Christina Hordern Lauer, of Watt-street, Newcastle, sued Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Ten More Charges Cunningham Before Court Committed for Trial
Arthur Vincent Cunningham, 30, solicitor, of Cessnock, who was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment November at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions on 36…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Homebush Men Go Back to Work Grievances to Go Before Court Sydney
Casual slaughtermen at Homebush Abattoirs who were on strike yesterday returned to work this morning to allow their grievances to go before…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Remands
Reginald Allan Moloney (30), laborer, was remanded until tomorrow on £20 ball at Newcastle Police Court to-day, on a charge of having stolen 14…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Summons Division Theft of Parrot
Edward Kafer, of Clarke-street, Wallsend, was bound over to be of good behaviour for two years, for having stolen a parrot, valued at 15/, the property of…
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