Police Open Goods Cases Perth
Detectives for hours to-day unpacked three large cases containing goods which recently arrived at Fremantle. A corridor of the central detective…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1939
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 179
Dog Aids Police Man's Scent Traced to Road SYDNEY
The Alsatian police dog Tess, which was sent to Camden to-day to help in the search for Phillip Allen, 30, who has been reported missing since Sunday,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Struck with Bottle, Police Say Man Cannot Be Found SYDNEY
Hamilton Gibb, 26, was remanded until January 9 at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm upon Clifford…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Macedon Fires Started Deliberately, Police Say Wind Change Saved Town Melbourne
Police are satisfied that the hush fires in the Macedon district which threatened houses yesterday were started deliberately…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attacked by Shark Is Police Belief Portion of Man's Body Washed Up Swept Into Surf; Wife Drowned SYDNEY
The police believe that Aubrey Kenneth Biddles, 28, who, with his wife, Phyllis, 25, was swept into the "blow…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Charged with Murder of Boy Melbourne
On a charge of having murdered Brace Williamson, 10, on December 20, Henry Bray, 52, a horticulturist, was to-day remanded in the Redcliffs Court to appear at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Explosion at Freezing Works Rabbit Buyer Charged ADELAIDE
Charged with having on December 31, placed gelignite, detonators, and fuse in Bothwick and Son's freezing works at Mt. Gambier, with intent to destroy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Court Wednesday, January 4 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Charges of Breaking and Entering
A remand to January 12 was allowed in the case in which Bert Bernard Dodd. 26, a labourer, faced two charges of alleged breaking and entering. Bail was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fewer Court Cases Last Year
Although complete returns are not available from the Clerk of Petty Sessions at West Maitland, it was stated yesterday that there had been a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Murder Charge Youth For Trial —Girl's Death BRISBANE
Charged at the Mackay Policy Court with the wilful murder of Dorothy Elsie Duncan, at Sea-fort (near Mackay) on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Traffic Police For Main Country Roads SYDNEY
The strengthening of police traffic patrols, to enable them to operate on main arterial roads in the country, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →17 Knife Wounds Girl Victim of Camp Tragedy Man on Murder Charge Brisbane
Evidence of terrible wounds suffered by an girl in a tent at Seaforth, a beach resort, was given in the Mackay Court to-day when Mervyn Augustus Leach, 24,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Moved on by Police Demonstrators in Downing Street LONDON, January 4
A letter to the Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain), asking him to receive a deputation of "unemployed" regarding the winter relief scales, was handed in at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Traffic Problem Education Rather Than Supervision Plan for Stronger Police Patrol Sydney
A proposal to strengthen the police patrol staff and appoint additional officers to instruct police in the handling of traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court Orders Lights Out at 8.15 P.M. SYDNEY
"Lights out at 8.16 pm.," was the order applied by the Equity Court to-day in regard to a large Neon sign at King's Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court's Sorrow Death of Chief Judge Dethridge "Great and Valued Servant" Sydney
A tribute to the late Chief Judge Dethridge was paid by Judge Beeby, on behalf of the Full Bench of the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Health, Safety Conditions in Australian Mines "Superior to England" Colliery Superintendent Tells Court SYDNEY
Coalmining was preferable to many other industries in Australia from a health and safety viewpoint, said a witness in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, when…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bicycle Stealing Charge
Thomas George Jones, 38, laborer, was remanded to January 9, on ball of £20, by Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Thursday, January 5 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Vagrancy Charge
"You have been coming before the Court ever since you were a boy," said the Magistrate to David Charles Baldwin, 27, miner, who was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Fatal Stabbing Man for Trial on Murder Charge BRISBANE
The hearing of the charge against Mervyn Augustus Leach, 24, of having wilfully murdered Dorothy Elsie Duncan at Seafort, near Macday, on December 27,…
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