School for Murder Chapter Xiv
Ponder heard from John Strong directly after lunch. John Strong had managed it. If C. O. Ponder would go to the Tombs they'd turn Baby Burke over to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1940
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Maitland Quarter Sessions (Before Judge Nield) Gaol Sentences
Henry Ernest Roberts, 49 of Cessnock, who pleaded guilty to embezzlement, was sentenced to imprisonment for 12 months…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →First Crime at Nine Years Youth at Maitland Sessions Remand for Burglary
Only 10 years of age, a prisoner admitted at the Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday a record of convictions dating from May 28, 1930, when he was first…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police
John Clyde Whitehead, of Beaumont Street, Hamilton, reported to Newcastle police yesterday that £10 had been stolen from his premises…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Intent to Murder Charge Painter Refused Bail SYDNEY
On a charge of having shot at George White with intent to murder him, Edward Riles Sexton, 59, painter, wan remanded to March 29 in the Paddington…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gift of Sails for Police Club Boat
Mr. Mark Reid of Belmont has given the Newcastle Police Boys' Club a ballooner and a spinnaker for use on the club's 16ft. skiff Marabou, which…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Using Court to Collect Debts" Sydney
James Charles Harris, a publican, of Woollabra, was refused permission in the Paddington Court to-day to withdraw a charge of false pretences against John…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Licensing Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M.)
Ellen Bird of Allynbrook, with the consent of the executors of the will of the late William Bird, holder of the Australian Wine Licence for premises…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Small Debts Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Consent Verdict
By consent a verdict for £8 11s, with 8s costs, representing use and occupation of premises in Queen-street. Cook's Hill, was made in favor of David…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the Courts Newcastle Licensing Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.) Hotel Changes Hands
The licence of the Northern Star Hotel. Hamilton, was transferred from Charles Braban Mellords to Joshua Jenkins…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Theft Alleged Three Years Ago Man Charged in Bicycle Case
A bicycle stolen three years ago was mentioned in a case at the Newcastle Police Court this afternoon, when Eric Geoffrey Taylor. 25. a mechanic,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →School for Murder Chapter Xv
C.O. Ponder shook his head wearily. "I missed you," he said, "but you weren't lucky. I missed you on purpose. It's no fun, son, waiting to be executed."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court Motor Traffic Breaches (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.)
Many traffic breaches were heard at West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Floyd William Miller, of Ayrfield, Heddon Greta, pleaded "Guilty" to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Court Cases Increase
The work at Newcastle Courthouse hat increased, by leapt and bounds this year at compared with 1939. Cam heard in the Court of Petty…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police
The theft of £5 from the residence of Percy Omodel of Albert-street, Belmont, was reported to Newcastle police yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licensing Court Licence Transferred
The licence of the Northern Star Hotel, Hamilton, was transferred from Charles Braban Mellords to Joshua Jenkins. Mr. K. W. Barnett (Messrs. Braye,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Solicitor Is Critical of Police Methods
The action of the police authorities in issuing instructions for no evidence to be offered against a man charged with exceeding the speed limit, on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →French Police Raid Communists Paris, March 19
Thirty-three Communists were arrested and two tons of literature and radio equipment which could be used for transmitting were seized in simultaneous raids…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Small Debts Court Verdict by Consent
By consent, a verdict for the amount, with 8/ costs, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which David L. O'Connor, of Cook's Hill, sued…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Two Men Escape From Police Station Sydney
Police are searching for two men who escaped from the exercise yard at Campsie police station to-night. The men were arrested early to-day…
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