Tooting of Motor Car Horns Police Warning of Noise
The traffic regulation dealing with the unnecessary tooting of motor car horns applies to the Newcastle district as well as to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1940
2,515 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 126
In the Courts Newcastle Summons Court Unregistered Car
For having driven an unregistered car in Parry Street. Hamilton, on February 17. Felix Abela, of Greystanes Road. Pendle Hill, was fined 12s. with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Station Stormed Mob Attempts to Free Prisoner MELBOURNE
Storming the lock-up cell at Melton police station on Saturday night, a mob attempted to release a prisoner arrested earlier for alleged offensive behaviour…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hamilton Band to Play Again Merged With Police Boys' Club
The old Hamilton Citizens' Band, formerly the champion band in the country, will play for the Newcastle Police and Citizens' Boys' Club. The band merged…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Help From Crowd Police and Soldiers in Melee Excitement at Maitland
A police inspector, sergeant and constable were involved in a struggle with militiamen in High-street, West Maitland on Saturday night. Although a crowd…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court Convicted of Assault
Leonard Bridge, of Mount View, proceeded against Augustus S. King, of Mount View, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at Cessnock Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court Alleged Theft of Car
Ronald Joseph Smith, 10, and John William Charles Brown, 18, were charged before Messrs. E. M. Debenham and A. W. Coleman, Js.P., at West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Bishop Sentenced to Death
Dr. Fulman formerly Bishop of Lublin, who, as admitted by the German News Agency, has been sentenced to death, was one of the leading personalities in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gaol for Pensioner Sydney
Sidney Adam Jeffrey, 63, was sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment at the Quarter Sessions to-day for having committed an offence against a boy of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Fascinated By Motor Cars"; Youth Sentenced
For the second time within a fortnight, Ronald Joseph Smith, 19, appeared on a charge of having used a car without the consent of the owner…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Monday, April 8 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Drunkenness
"Do you want to go to Morisset?" inquired the Magistrate of Ralph Peel Scott, 61, a labourer, who pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Social in Newcastle
Tho Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. J. Mackay) will be in Newcastle to-morrow night for the 20th annual smoke social organised by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Courts (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m) Newcastle Police Court Dairyman Remanded
On three charges of stealing, Leslie Victor Steele. 31, dairyman, was remanded to April 12. Ball in £20 was allowed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Attacked at Darwin Darwin
Surrounded by an unruly crowd of about 200, members of the Darwin police force were involved in a brawl on Saturday night…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two Thousand Members ? Police Boys' Club
When enrolment is completed at the Newcastle Police Boys' Club in the Civic Wintergarden to-night, it is expected that there will be 2000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mayor to See Police Chief Scott-street Traffic
The Mayor (Ald. J. E. Wiggins) will meet the Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. J. MacKay) on Thursday to discuss a scheme to revert to one-way traffic in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Word Premises Defined Full Court Judgment SYDNEY
Judgment of importance to industrial organisations was given by the State Full Court today on a stated case by Mr. Justice Roper…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Court or Strike" Judge to A.R.U. MELBOURNE
A warning to the Australian Railways Union that it had to choose between arbitration and direct action…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day in the Courts Newcastle Small Debts Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.) Constable's Claim
A claim for 7 10s damages arising out of a motor collision, at Hamilton on the night of October 8, 1939. was made by Constable Edgar William…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaoled for Assault
Thomas Leslie Dorry, of the 35th Battlion Rutherford camp, pleaded "Guilty" to having, at West Maitland, on March 1, assaulted Ronald McCrossin…
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