Country Police Stations
Repairs will be carried out by the Public Works Department at Morpeth and Muswollbrook police stations in the New Year. Plans, etc., are available at the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1938
3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 184
Secret Drilling 11 Belfast Men Sentenced LONDON, December 30
Secret drilling in Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, was alleged against 11 men who were sentenced at Belfast to-day for illegal drilling and promoting an unlawful…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Murder Charge in Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie
Josef Jurel 50, a Dalmatian, miner, married, appeared at the Police Court to-day charged with having wilfully murdered Marin Tvrdevic. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dalmatian on Murder Charge Kalgoorlie
Detectives to-day arrested Josef Jurelj, 50, a Dalmatian miner, and charged him with having willfully murdered Maria Tvrdeoi[?] on December 21…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Car Theft Check Two-way Plans of Cabinet Sydney
The Government is contemplating legislation to make compulsory the licensing of motor car dealers and the granting of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"No One Dare Assault Us," Says Dr. Goebbels Berlin
"Where would we be without a strong army. Runs and aeroplanes?" asked the Nazi Propaganda Minister (Dr. Goebbels) in a Broadcast New…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Uniforms for Cessnock Police
Every policeman at Cessnock wore a new uniform to-day. For those who were on duty, the fact was the notable feature of their New Year…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Triple Murder Mother Remanded at Cairns CAIRNS
In the Cairns Police Court to-day, Isabel Scott West, 44, a widow, on remand, was charged with the murder of her three children, George Campbell West, 22, Neil…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police in Sydney for Celebrations Sydney
The strength of the Sydney police force will be doubled during the 1938 celebrations but additional men will not be appointed. Fifty country policemen will be brought to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shot by Wiedmann Looking for Victim's Body in Garden Story to Magistrate Paris, December 30
M. Berry, the examining Magistrate, is trying to establish whether Wiedmann, who is on trial for murder, attempted to kill Colette Tricot, who, with her lover,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →High Court Had a Busy Year Work Was Divided in Last Term
The High Court had a particularly busy year in 1837. In the closing stages of the last term the Court was divided into two parts to dispose…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mean Theft in Church
Charles Bentley (57) was sentenced to two months hard labor at Brighton, England, the other day, after pleading guilty to four charges…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police in New Uniforms
Newcastle policemen wore the new regulation uniform for the first time to-day. No change is made in the uniforms of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stocking Murder Mystery Inquest Again To-morrow
One of the biggest inquests in the State's recent history will be continued to-morrow in Newcastle when the District…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Fires in a House Police Investigate At Paxton
Police investigated to-day a report that two fires had occurred in a house at Paxton early yesterday. The weatherboard house where the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Leg of Baby in Sydney Harbor Police Seek Trunk SYDNEY
Water police officers recovered today one leg of the baby whose arms were found floating in Blackwattle Bay, Glebe Point…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yacht Murders Material Witnesses Held by U.S. Police Los Angeles, January 1
Federal police ("G" men) have been called in on the investigation of the murders on the yacht Aafje, which was found helplessly adrift off the Mexican…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Jewel Theft in London Women Charged with Receiving London
Marlon Cooper was charged at the Old Bailey under the name of Jessie Rubin, with her sister, Sarah Korn-bluth, with having received £20,000…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In The COURTS Fined For Stealing
Jack Gray, 23, rigger, who pleaded guilty, was lined £3, with £2 compensation, in default 10 days' imprisonment, by Mr. Soane, S.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Demsey Murder Inquest Opens To-day MELBOURNE
One hundred witnesses are to be called at the inquest into the murder of John Thomas Demsey, which will be opened in Melbourne to-day…
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