Small Debts Court Verdict by Consent
By consent, a verdict for £35, with 11/ costs, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which the Trade Credits Ltd., of Margaret-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1939
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 79 of 179
Amazing Story in Divorce Court Another Man's Wife Story Of False Passport
The story of a man who made another man take his wife to Australia as his own wife and under his name, on a forged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →22 Hurt: Bus Smash Melbourne Suburb Struck Police Car Then Crashed Into Flat Building MELBOURNE
Twenty-two persons were injured, several of them seriously, when a crowded Tramways Board omnibus conveying city workers to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle Courts Tuesday, May 23 Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m. Licensing Court Booth Licences
Thomas Alton Cusick, of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted three booth licences for Newcastle races tomorrow…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Man Sentenced to Six Months' Gaol
A man, who was stated to have been declared an habitual criminal on two occasions, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Mr. Soane, S.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Youth Before Lismore Court Theft of Motor Car Alleged "More Serious Charge Later" Lismore
Derwent Evans Arkinstall, 18, an apprentice, was charged before the Court to-day with having stolen a motor car on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Next Time, Gaol S.p. Operators Warned
Men fined to-day at Newcastle Police Court by Mr. Soane, S.M., for S.P. betting were warned that their next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Find Coat
Detective A. W. Williams, of Newcastle, boarded the Casino-Sydney train when it arrived at Waratah early this morning and found a blue,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Financier to Gaol for Fraud London, April 26
The Amsterdam Court recently sentenced Siegfried Wreszynski, the Polish financier, to four years' imprisonment on two charges of fraud…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Man Detained Murder of Brisbane Taxi Driver North Coast Police Act Car Was Abandoned Near Mullumbimby LISMORE
A man was detained at Bangalow to-night by police inquiring into the murder of Howard P. Chambers, 50, of Bulimba, whose body…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Wednesday, May 24 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Drove Under Influence
Arthur Edward Hawkins, 49, traveller, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge that on May 24, whilst under the influence of intoxicating liquor, he drove a motor-car…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Gaol for the Profiteer" "Mob Of Vultures," Says M.L.A. SYDNEY
Urging legislation providing a prison sentence for persons guilty of profiteering in industry. Mr. J. C. Ross (U.A.P.,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At Teralba (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Six Months' Gaol
Sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed on Percival James Frost, 46, a labourer, who pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having obtained £1/19/6 from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Water Board Award Application Adjourned Industrial Court Sitting
No evidence was taken yesterday when Mr. Justice Ferguson presided over a sitting of the Industrial Court to deal with an application for a new award for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air Court Opens in Melbourne State Secrets To Be Kept MELBOURNE
A request to witnesses to cooperate with him m keeping silent about anything in the evidence which might be a State…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Court's Order Is Obeyed But Other Goods Held N.Z. Customs and Imports Wellington (N.z.)
Following a specific order for delivery by the Court, which pronounced the import regulations invalid, the Auckland Customs officials released a case of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Divorce Court Strange Story Wife Came to Australia With Friend on Forged Passport Judge Grants Decree Nisi
Evidence that a man had been forced to take another man's wife from England to Australia as his own wife and under his name, on a forged passport, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six Months' Gaol
Sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed on Percival James Frost, 40, labourer, who pleaded "Guilty" to having obtained £6 from Leonard Dallas…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charged with Car Stealing Remand from Lismore to Brisbane "More Serious Charge Pending" Lismore
Derwent Evans Arkinstall, 18, who was detained by police at Bangalow yesterday, was remanded in custody to Brisbane from the Lismore Police Court this…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Morpeth Police Court (Before Mr. R. Solling, P.m.)
John Athol Connolly, of High-street, West Maitland, was fined 10/, with 8/ costs, in default two days' imprisonment, by Mr. R. Solling, P.M., at the Morpeth…
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