"Always on Duty" Police Commissioner in Motor Chase SYDNEY
The truism that a policeman is always on duty was exemplified recently when the Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. J. MacKay), while motoring, saw a man…
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Courts & crime, 1939
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 179
Topics for Women Fashion Court Difficult Figure LONDON, December 8
England's fashion experts solemnly "went to court" in London recently to plead the Very Sad Case of the Woman…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stop Hearing Claims Counsel Asks Court Mine Stoppages Judge on Limited Power SYDNEY
Because of stoppages at all collieries excepting one on the South Coast and hold-ups at several mines in the North, Mr. J. E…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Assault Alleged
By consent, an adjournment to February 3 was granted by Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M., at Newcastle Summons Court to-day, when Harry Leake Spratt. of…
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"You have had every opportunity to take a lesson; there must be 60 convictions against you, including convictions on charges of assault," said the Magistrate,…
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James Sydney Robson, 36, a labourer, was charged with having at Wallsend, on December 24, unlawfully assaulted Alice Robson, the informant in the case. He…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Modern Police Station
Said to be the most up-to-date police station and court-house in Victoria, these permises will be occupied by the Camberwell police in about a fortnight. Victorian police are using modern architecture…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gaol Prisoners Enter Upon Hunger Strike Bathurst
Six prisoners in Bathurst gaol, who are on separate treatment because of their participation in the riot at the prison in November, to-day entered…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Thursday, January 12 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Labourer for Trial
On two charged of having broken and entered houses at New Lambton and Waratah, Bert Bernard Dodd, 26, labourer, was committed by the Magistrate (Mr. M. E…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Industrial Court Again Adjourned
For the third time an adjournment was made of the cases by John Larkin, of the Australian Meat Industry Employees' Union, against H. Wilkinson,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Small Debts Court Payments by Instalments
In the matter between E. H. Osland and Sons, of Wallsend, and William Hepple, of Birmingham Gardens, Wallsend, instalments were fixed at £1 a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Killed in Car Crash Former Police Sergeant BATHURST
James Jenkinson, 70, of Albury, a former sergeant of police, was fatally injured tonight in a collision between two cars. He died at midnight…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Danger Not Past Fresh Outbreaks Set Fighters Big Task Fears for Six Missing Men Police Prosecutions Likely to Follow Rubicon Blaze MELBOURNE
Many men whom it was feared had perished in the bush fires are safe, but six are still missing. In several areas the danger has not passed, fresh outbreaks having sat firefighters a difficult task…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Court Friday, January 13 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded
Cecil Jensen, 29, labourer, was remanded to February 9 on bail of self in £10, with one surety in £10, on a charge that a Dudley, on December 7, he took…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →More Foot Police Refused; Outpaced By Cars SYDNEY
[?] that fast cars are more efficient in dealing with crime than a policeman walking at 2½ miles an hour and costing £400 a year, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Note in Bottle Typist's Disappearance Police Not Convinced Brisbane
A bottle was found at Southport yesterday with a message in it, referring to the disappearance of Miss Marjorie Norval, a Government typist, but police…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court
Fines of £2 for indecent language and £3 for assaulting Constable Crouch were imposed on William Alfred Hicks 59, by Messrs. C. W. Ebbeck and L. G. Markey…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Assault Alleged
"I am afraid that cannot be done. My client had his jaw broken in three places," remarked Mr. N. Cragg (for the complainant) at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fined For Assault
Charged with having assaulted Albert Benjamin Caldwell of Thomas-street, Hamilton South, on January 7, Richard Munro of Crown-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Magistrate Orders Destruction of Pin Machines Sydney
Mr. Arnold, S.M., at Redfern Court, to-doy ordered the destruction of five pin machines, stated to have been used in shops…
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