Police Court Tuesday, April 23 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Indecent Language
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 4
Robert Douglas King, 49, carpenter, was fined £4, in default eight days' imprisonment, for having, at Islington, on April 22, used indecent language…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Protection At Lambton
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 7
"The Police Department is using soft soap so that we will not persist in our agitation for more police protection and a return to the system that operated…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Appeals to Court
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 6
Martin Peterson, an invalid pensioner, of Merewether Street, Merewether, appealed to Judge Nield at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day against…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Small Debts Court Claim Against Chinese
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 4
A Chinese witness in a case involving one of his countrymen, as defendant, was sworn by blowing out a lighted match…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.)
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 7
Douglas Cunningham, 37. laborer, was remanded to Sydney on April 28 on a charge of having, at Sydney and Newcastle, between December 31 and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Balkans Raid Nazi Nests Police Chief Seized; Germans Expelled LONDON
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 1
The arrest of Dr. Milan Achimevis, a former chief of the Yugoslavian police, and Minister of the Interior under the Premiership of M. Stoyadinovitch (arrested earlier and accused of Nazi conspiracy) is the latest dramatic turn in Balkan efforts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Railway Chief Persists Court Application to Deregister Union MELBOURNE
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 11
Although railway workers on the Broken Hill line, who were on strike against the award of Judge Drake-Brockman, returned to work a week ago, Mr. Watt,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Will Not Call Conference Judge on Court's Attitude "Misrepresentation on Coal Awards" Melbourne
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1940 · page 8
'"I now state finally that the Court will not call any conference to settle the coal strike," declared the Chief Judge (Sir George Beeby) in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Summons Division Theft of Motor Oil
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 4
Alexander Martin, of Beaumont-street, Hamilton, and William Morton, of Albion-street. Mayfield, were charged together with having stolen a quart bottle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police and Pedestrians
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 9
Sir,—I was interested in your Motoring Correspondent's article about the traffic lights recently installed in Newcastle. They are a great help to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Judge Critical of Traffic Law Removes Magistrate's Discretion
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 11
"I absolutely disapprove of legislation of the type which removes entirely the discretion from a Magistrate of consideration of what is the proper penalty in a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fair Rents Court
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 4
Rent for "The Cottage," a house in Murray-avenue, Newcastle, was fixed at £1/19/ a wool. The case was one in which Pearl Thyra Flemming, of "The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Men Sent to Gaol Sentence Day at Sessions
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 4
Of the five men who came up for sentence before Judge Nield at Newcastle Sessions yesterday, three were sent to gaol, two were released on bonds, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Wednesday, April 24 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded to Sydney
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 4
On £40 bail, Douglas Cunningham, 37, labourer, was remanded to the Central Police Court on April 26. He had been charged with having at Sydney between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cases for Special Court
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 4
Cases against John James McCullum, of Newcastle-street, Cardiff, which were adjourned for hearing at the special Court on May 1, alleged the stealing, at Cardiff,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Dead in Murder Drama Killer Held Police at Bay Shot Wife, Detective And Himself Tear Gas Bombs Used Wollongong
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 1
For four hours to-day, after he had murdered his wife and a detective, a man kept a large squad of police at bay in Ocean Street, Wollongong. Finally, when they threw tear gas bombs through a window,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At Teralba (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.) Youth Charged
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 4
Two of six police witnesses had been heard when Clifford George Mason, 19, was remanded until May 1 on a charge of stealing. Ball, with a personal…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Debts Court Plaintiff Non-suited
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 4
A long-standing matter in a claim for £50 damages, arising from an alleged collision between a motor-car and a bicycle on Watkins bridge, Main-road,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Missing Sydney Girl; Reports to Police Melbourne
The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 10
Three reports have been made to the police that a girl resembling the published photographs of Miss Lucy Brown Craig, 29. who has been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fifth Column in Balkans Raids on Yugoslav Nazis Former Police Chief Banished (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, April 24
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 8
The latest dramatic turn in Balkan efforts to frustrate the Nazi "fifth column" is the arrest of Dr. Milan Achimevic, a former, chief of the…
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