Soldiers Menaced "Communist" Police Averted Brawl in Hotel SYDNEY
Police averted an ugly scene when about 50 members of the Second A.I.F. marched into a city hotel early to-night and threatened to "clean up" an alleged…
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Courts & crime, 1940
2,515 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 126
Hooded Figure in Queensland Arrest Made by Police Women Were Terrorised BRISBANE
Two policemen last night rushed and disarmed a man suspected of having terrified the Landsborough district for several…
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Arthur Reynolds, 24, laborer, pleaded not guilty to having assaulted Joseph Bubbins at Hamilton March 22. He was remanded to to-morrow on…
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Superintendent J. While (left) who is entering on long service leave prior to retirement from the police force and his successor. Superintendent A. H. C Jones, who takes charge of the North-eastern Police District. (See story on page 8.)…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police Court Indecent Behavior (Before Me M. E. Soane, S.M.)
Henry Thomas Milton, 30. laborer, and Ray Alexander, 23. laborer, were each fined £2, in default four days' Imprisonment, for having behaved in…
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Gustav Augusta Martin, 52, was remanded at the Toogoolawah Police Court to-day for eight days on a charge of having murdered his wife, Maria Bertha…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Club Room Nears Completion Police Boys' Club Has 1700 Members
Rapid progress is being made with the conversion of the Civic Wintergarden into a gymnasium and club room for the Newcastle Police and Citizens' Boys'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Supt.'s Tribute to Newcastle "Law-abiding People" Retirement After 37½ Years
On the eve of entering on long service leave before retirement, Superintendent J. White to-day paid a tribute to the people of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Small Debts Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.) Verdict By Consent
By consent, a verdict for £1 17s 6d. with 7s costs, was awarded to Cecil Hincks, of Lambton-road. New Lambton, against Reginald Clarence Toby…
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A remand to Wednesday was granted in the case in which Arthur Reynolds, 24, labourer, was charged with having unlawfully assaulted Joseph Bubbins at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hairdresser on Theft Charge
On a charge of having stolen £18 4s 9d. the property of James Brice, at Mayfield on March 18. William Arthur Thompson. 30, hairdresser,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Teller for Trial Charged With Theft of £2755 Allegedly Put Pennies in Florin Bags Sydney
On a charge of having stolen £2755 in cash from the Bank of New South Wales, Arthur Maxwell Lumsdaine, 33, teller, was committed for trial on £500…
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A varied assortment of unclaimed property will go under the hammer at Newcastle Police Station at 10 a.m. on Saturday, when the police auction…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Laborer Charged (Before Mr. R. Soiling. S.M.)
Arthur Reynolds, 24. laborer, was charged with having at Hamilton on March 22 unlawfully assaulted Frederick Bubbins…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court Tuesday, March 26 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Offensive Behaviour
Kenneth Robertson 19, labourer, Walter James Weber, 29, labourer, John Marjrie, 28, labourer, Eric Smith, 25, labourer. Raymond Clarke, 19, labourer,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Woman Fined for Betting (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.)
Mary Crich, 33, pleaded "Not guilty" at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday to a charge of having, on February 15, used premises in Lawes-street, East…
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Contributions to the Newcastle Police Boys Club, which have been received by the treasurer (Sergeant Blackley) are—…
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Harry Collard of Fern Street, Islington, reported to Newcastle police yesterday that a saw had been stolen from his premises…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Alsatian Dog Bites Police Sergeant
While investigating a complaint lost night that a man had been attacked by an Alsatian dog. Sergeant C. Yeo-mans, of West Maitland, was bitten…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder Charge Trial Stood Over for Week Sydney
The trial of Leslie Ernest Kennedy, 27, clerk, on a charge of murder, listed for the Central Criminal Court to-day, was ordered by Mr. Justice Street…
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