Sentenced for Trying to Defend Soviet Paris, January 11
A woman teacher has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for having attempted to defend the Soviet in a classroom…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1940
2,515 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 126
Industrial Court Case Adjourned
The case in which Melba Dargus Brock proceeded against Albert Frederick Brock of Parnell-place, Newcastle and Vera Mitchell of McMichael-st.,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Maitland and District Hyacinth Hindered Police Wallis Creek Dragged
A man's coat and hat, a blanket and a fairly fresh loaf of bread were noticed on the bank of Wallis Creek, near Victoria Bridge, on Wednesday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Have Just Killed a Girl" Man's Alleged Statement to Police BRISBANE
Charged at the Theodore Police Court to-day with having murdered Alice Catherine Dyer, Edward Ray Weldon. 25, was committed for trial…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →In Cell with Coolies Solicitor's Claim About Woolcott Forbes Denied by Police Sydney
Four coolie murderers shared a cell with Woolcott Forbes while he was in prison in Bombay, and ate weevily rice, and dogs' heads with him, said Mr. J. H…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →District Police Courts at Newcastle Thursday, January 11 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Men Discharged
Two men were discharged on a charge of having, at Carrington, on December 19, unlawfully used a motor-car, the property of Robert Charles Heath. They…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Court Friday, January 12 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Bound Over for Assault
On his own recognisance of £20, Reginald Johns, 50, a dealer, was bound over for 12 months, when he pleaded "Guilty" to having assaulted his wife, Marjorie…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Police Seek Owners of Guns
Newcastle police are anxious to find an owner for two double-barrelled breech-loading shotguns which were found among bushes near Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Theft From Hotel
The theft of £3 and a bottle of wine from the Cardiff Hotel, was reported to Newcastle police at the week-end. Two double-barrelled shot-guns and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sent To Gaol
William Porter, 61, laborer, was sentenced to imprisonment for one month on a charge of having been an idle and disorderly person with insufficient…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Drive Against Erring Cyclists
"People seem to think they can ride bicycles without lights and brakes and can committ all sorts of breaches of the Traffic Act," said Sergeant W. Wallace…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Newcastle Police Court Betting Charges
On a charge of having used a place at Merewether known as the Commons Hairdressing Saloon in Railway-street on January 13 for the purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder Theory Considered Missing Merewether Man SYDNEY
Detectives inquiring into the disappearance of Ernest Albert Avery, 36, who has been missing for 18 months, are considering the possibility that he has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Reflected in Police Ballots Sydney
With only one exception those members of the executive of the Police Association who had sought re-election as delegates had won the ballots, said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Sergeant Found Shot Dead Sydney
Sergeant F. Lund, 41, was found shot dead in a cell at Hunter's Hill police station yesterday. A bullet wound was in his head and a note was nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →French Police Arrest 20 Communists Paris, January 14
Police arrested 20 persons and accused them of forming a Communist cell in an important aviation factory at Saint Denis…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Prize Court Work in London London, December 27
Britain continues to maintain its wn sea-borne trade and to interrupt that of the enemy. Last week another 7000 tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Onlookers Gave No Help Two Police Attacked by Six Men SYDNEY
Two police were attacked by six men in Newtown last night. Although about 70 people gathered, no one gave the police any aid. Both…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Theft of Beehives
"Apparently two thieves were at work—the one who admitted the thefts, and another," said Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., in the Cessnock Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Daring Theft of Cable Wollongong
Thieves cat down 400 yards of copper cable from a line in course of construction at Port Kembla Steel Works on Sunday. They climbed a post to do so…
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