Native on Murder Charge Goulburn Island Affray DARWIN
A Mabanat native named Jakala almost caused fierce tribal warfare at Goulburn Island just before Christmas. Arguments between Guri Guri and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1940
2,515 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 126
Police Outwit Would-be Suicide Melbourne
Clambering over the railing of a bridge and threatening to jump 40 feet into the Yarra River, a man gave people many anxious moments at Burnley to-day. On…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Wave of Terror German Secret Police Harass Czechs LONDON, January 3
Once more the German Gestapo (secret police) has been let loose on the Czechs and a now wave of arrests is sweeping over the country…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Thursday, January 4 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded for Stealing
Mary Queenie Isenhood, 20, was remanded to July 3 on a charge of having at Newcastle on January 3 stolen a wrist watch, valued at £6/10/, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →East Maitland Police Court Police Court (Before Mr. N. L. C. Sherida. P.m.) Motor Traffic Breaches
Six motorists appeared on charges under the Motor Traffic Act at East Maitland Police Court yesterday. For having exceeded the speed limit on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Freed on Stealing Charges Sydney
On charges of having stolen property worth £2500 from A. C. Willard and Co. Pty. Ltd., Cecil Waugh. 35, clerk, and William Swapp, 43, traveller, were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Remanded on Stealing Charge Sydney
On a charge of having stolen two diamond rings, valued at £75, the property of Harry Landers, William Patrick. O'Conner, 29, a fruiterer, was remanded until…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Drug Addict Is Sent to Gaol Sydney
A scientist who served in the Australian Army Medical Corps in the Great War was to-day sentenced to imprisonment for six months for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Months' Gaol for Seamen Goods from Ship's Hold SYDNEY
Two wharf labourers were each sentenced to three months imprisonment at the Central Police Court to-day for stealing goods from the hold of a ship. They…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Weston Police Vacancy to Be Filled
Action had been taken to fill the vacancy at Weston police station, the Chief Secretary (Mr. A. U. Tonking) advised Mr. J. M. Baddeley. M.L.A…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wharf Labourer to Stand Trial for Murder Melbourne
Finding that Frederick Stringer, 42, wharf labourer, had been fatally stabbed with a carving knife on December 21, by, James Simpson, 33, wharf labourer, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Barrister's Wife Displays Black Eye in Court Sydney
Mrs. Edith Burns, wife of Bernard Burns, a barrister, at Paddington Codurt to-day, pointed to a black eye, an injury, which, it was alleged, she…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shock for Tenant Court Raised, Not Lowered Rent SYDNEY
A woman tenant received a shock in the Fair Rents Court to-day. Instead of her application for a reduction in her rent of £2/5/ a week for property at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Communists Deputies to Stay in Gaol Paris, January 5
The Military Tribunal rejected an appeal for provisional liberty by 28 Communist ex-Deputies, who are interned at Sante Prison, awaiting trial on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police
The theft of a case of brandy from the Hunter River Steamship Company's wharf is being investigated by Newcastle police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Friday, January 5 Summons Division (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Sold Adulterated Milk
Samuel Stefanoff, of Maitland-road, Mayfield, was fined £2, with 8/ costs, or five days' imprisonment, for having sold adulterated milk on October 31…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →More Court Work at Teralba
A large increase in Court work at Teralba during 1939 is shown in figures made available by the Clerk of Petty Sessions (Mr. N. Thomson)…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Missing Merewether Man Still Sought by Police SYDNEY
Ernest Albert Avery, 37, of Caldwell-street, Merewether, who disappeared from the district on September 7, 1938, is still sought by police…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Magistrate Warns Men About Betting Laws
"It would be ns well for you men to realise that if convicted of being found in a place used for the purpose of betting, each is liable to a penalty…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gaol Escapee Found in Truck Melbourne
While police and civilians searched through swamp and thick undergrowth for him, John Ryan, 38, a gaol escapee, slept in a railway truck on a siding. His…
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