Police Court Traffic Breaches
For having allowed a person without a licence to drive his motor-cycle, Harold Ellwood was fined 10/, with 5/ costs, at the Cessnock Police Court, before Mr. C…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1940
2,515 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 126
Six Months' Gaol for Two Charges Wollongong
John Williams, alias Splinter Williams, was found guilty by Judge Nield at the Quarter Sessions of having demanded money with menaces from John Rowles,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Theft of Hospital Money Alleged Young Man Remanded SYDNEY
At Central Police Court to-day, Mervyn Ronald Greedy, 20, a fitter and turner, was remanded for a week on £200 bail on a charge of having, at West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Plaints for District Court
The Registrar of the Maitland District Court (Mr. A. D. Tyler) announced yesterday that plaints for hearing at the sitting of the Court to open before Judge…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Monday, February 19 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Tried to Take Horse From Pound
Robert Parker, 27, a labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to two charges. They were—That at New Lambton, on February 18, he attempted to rescue a black pony…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Industrial Court Breach of Award
Arthur Vincent Carroll, for the Amalgamated Clothing and Allied Trades Union, proceeded against Ethel Munro, trading at Perry's Frocks, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Licensing Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.)
The licence of the Exchange Hotel, Newcastle, was transferred from Joshua Jenkins to Charles Carlyle Robertson, lately foreman employed at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Threw Man Into Police Station Wharf Labourer Fined for Damaging Door
Evidence that a man walked up to another outside a drill hall, arrested him, and threw him through a police station door later was given in the case in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Appeal to Full Court Hotel Licence Transfer to Single Woman SYDNEY
The Liquor Act prohibits an application for a new licence being entertained "where the applicant is an unmarried woman not being a widow." The State…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Camp Cook Charged
Frank Edwards, 41, a cook, was charged with having at Rutherford camp on Saturday stolen three bottles of tomato sauce, valued at 3/6, the property of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Found Guilty of Assault Wollongong
At the Quarter sessions, before Judge Nield, Charles McGuire was charged with having assaulted Thomas Dale and thus occasioned him actual bodily harm. A…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Young Man Bound Over (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.)
Sentence of two months' imprisonment passed on Frederick James Convery, 21, by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at West Maitland Police Court yesterday, was…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Thefts Reported to Police
Mrs. Jessie Halcan of Cooranbong Road, Broadmeadow, reported to Newcastle police yesterday that a cold ring had been stolen from the kitchen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Inquiries Unauthorised Patriotic Collections
Acting on instructions from Sydney, Newcastle police are investigating several instances where suburban committees are said to be collecting funds for patriotic…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, SM.) Stole From Theatre
Pleading guilty to having stolen five cheque forms, two torches and a number of admission tickets valued in all at £2, the property of Herbert Edwards,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Seek Cooperation Of Cycle Owners
Newcastle police again appealed to-day to owners of bicycles to keep a record of the numbers of their machines…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sent to Gaol for Three Months Former Merchant In Newcastle SYDNEY
Escaping from Russia after the revolution in 1919. David Ginsberg, a Russian Jew college student, sought sanctuary in Poland…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Licensing Court Hotel Transfers Granted
The transfer of the licence of the Exchange Hotel, Hamilton, from Joshua Jenkins to Charles Carlyle Robertson, formerly a foreman at Stockton Borehole…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Promotion Refused Age Bar On Police Officials SYDNEY
Officials in the Police Department learned to-day that two officers had been refused promotion because of their age. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Promotions Announced Inspector Duckworth Advances In Rank SYDNEY
The following police promotions were approved by the Executive Council to-day:—Superintendent Second-class W…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →