Timber Stealing Charge
On the application of the police, a remand till May 10 was granted when William Dever (48) was charged in the Cessnock Police Court to-day with…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1937
3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 62 of 189
Theft of Gravel
Proceeded against by Lake Macquarie Shire Council on a charge of having stolen, at Argenton, on November 29 of last year, a quantity of gravel, valued…
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Arthur Harold Raymond Roeth appeared at the Quarter Sessions to-day on a charge of having broken and entered the residence of Hercules Crouch, on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Wednesday, April 28 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Embezzled Money
Norman Samuel Henry Morris, 23, porter, was charged with having embezzled 15/10 at Kahibah between January 29 and April 4, 1937, while in the employ of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farcical Trial in Germany Catholics Sentenced to Imprisonment Berlin
Charged with treason by advocating a United Communist and Catholic front, four Roman Catholics were convicted to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Manslaughter Is Alleged Man Charged at Manly Sydney
William A. Martin Fitzgerald (29), baker, was charged at Manly Court to-day with having at Manly on April 24 feloniously slain Patrick Leo…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Commissioner in Hospital Sydney
The condition of the Police Commissioner, Mr. McKay, who is in hospital, remains unchanged. Mr. MacKay has been ill for some…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Withdraw Petition Alleged Offer in Divorce Case Evidence on Stealing Charge Sydney
It was alleged in evidence at the Central Police Court to-day that Leonard Francis Hunt, 31, a traveller, on March 24 stole £1500 belonging to Ernest…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Trapper Arrested Charge of Murder Tasmanian Tragedy Launceston
At the same time as the funeral of the two victims was taking place in the town of Sheffield this afternoon, detectives were ushering a man into a police…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →'After Hours Drinkers Are Poor Sports' Magistrate's View Had Long List of Offenders
"After hours drinking is more or less forced on hotel licensees," said Mr. Soane, S.M., at Newcastle Police…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two Charges of Murder Man Remanded in Tasmania Launceston
Donovan Henry Charles Packett, 33, a rabbit trapper and miner, who was arrested yesterday while the funerals of the two victims of the Moina…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Industrial Court Not Pay Award Wage
Inspector R. J. Hutchinson, of the Labour and Industry Department, proceeded against L. C. McGuinness, a master butcher, of Victory-parade, Toronto,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hamilton Council Park Vandalism More Police Protection Sought
A complaint was made at the meeting of the Hamilton Council last night of the vandalism in the parks of the municipality. One of the pavilions had been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Council News More Police Protection Hamilton Council Takes Action
Complaints of vandalism in Hamilton induced the council last night to ask for more police protection…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder and Suicide Death of Man and Wife Gundagai Coroner's Verdict Gundagai
Letters written by Walter Charles Small, 42, engineer, in which he left all his property to his children, were read at the inquest to-day into the death of Small and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →May Inherit Fortune Police Seek Relatives of "Lucky Jack" SYDNEY
Constables Thomson and Steel, of Police Headquarters, are searching for the relative of John A. A. Vince, known as "Texas Jack" and "Lucky Jack." If…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →White Slavers in Trial in Paris Devil's Island Escapee Is Accused of Murder Paris
An escape from Devil's Island (the French penal settlement off the coast of Central Africa) was placed on trial to-day on a charge of murdering a man in Soho (London's most cosmopolitan area)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Approached Seamen's Secretaryship Order to Branches Sought Melbourne
The dispute over the general secretaryship of the Seamen's Union of Australia was mentioned to Chief Judge Dethridge in Chambers at the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Dead Man" Case Appeal Leave Granted by High Court Sydney
The interpretation given by the State Full Court of the law in what is known as the "dead man's" case will be tested in the High Court…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sentenced to Five Years Gaol "Shocking Crime," Said Judge Sydney
"A shocking crime," was the description given by Judge Sheridan at the Quarter Sessions to-day to an offence for which he sentenced Clyde…
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