Has Band Now Police and Citizens Boys' Club
Subsequent to an appeal for juveniles to form a brass, band under the auspices of the Newcastle Police and Citizens' Boys' Club, 25 boys, whose ages ranged…
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Courts & crime, 1940
2,515 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 58 of 126
Nazis Are Checked Everywhere 400 German Planes Lost Fierce Assault on Maginot Line Triple Thrust By Hitler: French Gain In Luxemburg LONDON
Germany's triple offensive against Belgium, Holland and Luxemburg, which was followed up to-day by a 40-mile frontal attack on the Maginot Line, has been checked. The invading armies penetrated the Low Countries at several strategic points,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In the Courts Newcastle Police (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.) Remand Granted
Alexander Mackie, 43, company director, was charged with having driven a motor vehicle yesterday while under the influence of liquor in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Parties in Assault Case Bound Over (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
Horace Vivian Kennewell, of Abernethy, proceeded against Stanley Myatt of Rothbury Estate, for assault. Mr. J. D. Reid appeared for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →West Maitland (Before Mr. C. Q. Carr-Boyd.) Police Court Trespassed On Railway
For having trespassed on railway premises at West Maitland early this morning, Joseph Wilson. 25, laborer, and John McRae. 21, laborer, were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court Monday, May 13 (Before Mr. E. Soane, S.m.) Director Remanded
Alexander Mackie, 43, company director, was remanded to June 10 on two charges. They were—That on Sunday, in Maitland-road, Islington, he drove a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Debts Court
A verdict for £16 5s 6d with 9s costs was awarded Newcastle Morning Herald Pty., Ltd. in its claim for that amount from John Harrington of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder Charge After Sydney Shooting Sydney
Bernard Gavan, 59, of Livingstone-street, Lidcombe, was fatally shot in the neck at his home to-night. He died about two hours after admission…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Coroner's Court Inquest Adjourned
On the application of the police, the Maitland District Coroner (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd) to-doy adjourned until May 23 the inquest on the deaths of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Force to Be Strengthened Sydney
The State Cabinet decided to-day, on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. J. MacKay), to replace with civilians about 45 officers…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Shoot Fleeing Suspect in Heel Melbourne
After a long chase over fences and through yards at 3.30 a.m. to-day, two constables captured a man whom they had been start a car in Toorak…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Licensing Court (Before Mr. M. E. Boone, L.M.)
An application for the transfer of the licence of the Terminus Hotel, Newcastle, from Cecil Baden Brown to Andrew George Melville, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Thefts in Lake Shire President to Confer With Police Councillors Concerned
Concerned at the continued theft of tools and material, Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night authorised the President (Cr. T. A. Johnson) to confer…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Court Told of Raid by Husband Wife Sued for Divorce
Evidence of a visit to his wife's home in Cessnock, and finding the correspondent there, was told by Henry Raymond Jackson, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Newcastle Police
Thomas Andrew Juratowich (29), laborer, was fined £3 and ordered, to pay £3 compensation, in default 12 days' imprisonment, when he pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Pictures Screened in Gaol
The inmates of Maitland Gaol were entertainment at the week-end with a screening of moving pictures. The screening was authorised by Mr. R. Williams, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.)
Found in an open railway truck at Went Maitland early yesterday morning Joseph Wilson, 25, and John McRae, 21, were each fined £2 by Mr. C. G…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Acquitted of Assault on Girl Melbourne
William Edward Bentick, 32, a former sales manager, was acquitted in the General Sessions to-day on a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Tuesday, May 14 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Malicious Damage
Thomas Andrew Juratowtch, 29, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge that at Mayfield on Monday he maliciously damaged a plate-glass door panel, valued…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five Years' Gaol for Fraud Wellington (N.z.)
Sentencing Gordon Percy Aston—the "Mr. X" of the torpedo deflector case—to five years' goal with hard labor for having conspired to defraud…
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