Police Promotions Sydney
The Premier (Mr. A. Mair) said that the Executive Council to-day approved of the following police promotions— Sergeant First Class Frederick John…
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Courts & crime, 1940
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Police Court Thursday, April 18 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Woman on Bond
Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of drunkenness, Florence Dunlop, 24, was ordered to enter into a bond of £20 to be of good behaviour for 12 months, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sentence Reduced to Fine Bodyguard's Assault on Press Photographer SYDNEY
In the Appeals Court to-day, Acting Judge Studdert reduced the sentence of three months' imprisonment upon John William Johnson, for an assault upon…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Boys' Club in Street March
A big march through the city will precede the official opening ceremony to-morrow in Wheeler-Place of the Newcastle Police and Citizens' Boys'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Argument with Customer Clue in Garage Murder Investigations MELBOURNE
A heated argument between a customer and James Edwards, 47, who was murdered at his Hawthorne garage last Saturday, was overheard shortly before the…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →BIG B.H.P. Schemes Petition Before Court Melbourne
Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd. has lodged a petition in the Supreme Court for an extension of its objects on a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Court Buildings at Newcastle Request Referred to Minister SYDNEY
The Premier (Mr. Mair) promised in the Legislative Assembly to-day to refer to the Minister for Justice (Mr. Treatt) a request by Mr. F. H. Hawkins (Labour,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Court Friday, April 19. (Before Mr. M. E. Soand, S.m.) Remanded
Charged by warrant with having, at Newcastle, between March 12, 1939, and February 1, 1940, by virtue of his employment, fraudulently embezzled £234/…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Men with Forged Notes Sent to Gaol Sydney
Judge Hill sentenced William Marshall, 50, labourer, and Norman O'Brien, 35, labourer, to two and a half years' imprisonment at the Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Statements From Dock Jury Entitled to Consider Supreme Court Ruling Sydney
The Full Supreme Court to-day gave an important ruling on the power of a jury. The Court held that a jury wsa entitled to give such weight as it thought…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Racial Riots Feared in West Australia Communist Purge in Union Swift Action by Police Kalgoorlie
Fears of repetition of the racial riots of 1934 moved the police to swift action in defensive measures for to-morrow's mass meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol Inmates Entertained
Inmates of Maitland Gaol were entertained on Saturday afternoon by the Waratah Methodist Knights. Transport for the party was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Charged Sydney
Ruby Gladys Evelyn (27), a domestic, at the Central Police Court to-day, was chanted with demanding with menaces £100 from Dr. Francis…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Newcastle Police Court Indecent Behavior
Geoffrey Dominic Burke, 27, laborer, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment, for having behaved in an indecent manner in Pacific-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Fire on Indian Rioters Calcutta
Three persons were killed and 50 injured in clashes between two Moslem sects in Lucknow. The injured include four…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Theories in Missing Girl Case Sydney
Two theories are held now by the detectives searching for Miss Lucy Brown Craig, the missing 19-year-old society girl. They are that either…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Agents in Paris Cafes Dangerous to Discuss War
In Paris one has to be very careful in discussing the war, especially in a public place, says a special correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian."…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Be on Side of Police "No Tale-telling," Says Commissioner Boys' Club Is Opened
"Instead of Newcastle boys finding their pleasures and evils on the street corners and in back laneways, they are now going to find them in the Police and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cut Throat in Court After Sentence Horrifying Scene in Sydney Collapsed Across Dock Railing SYDNEY
There was a horrifying scene in the Central Police Court to-day when Thomas Owen Drury, 29, cut his throat from ear to ear and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motorist Charged
An adjournment to May 13 was granted when Stephen Gardiner, 32, salesman, was charged with having in Hunter-street, Newcastle, on April 20, driven a…
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