Back to Gaol After Two Days' Liberty' Lithgow
Released form Oberon Prison Farm on Wednesday after serving a sentence of six months for attempting to steal from the person. Arthur George Smith was…
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Courts & crime, 1940
2,515 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 126
Record Haul of Beer Two Men Charged at Gosford GOSFORD
Newcastle police, under Sergeant W. E. Lind, took part on April 5 in the biggest haul of bottled beer in the history of New South Wales. This fact…
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Kate Stevens (23) home duties and Mary Sterio (50) home duties, were each fined £5 on charges of stealing. The charge against Stevens was that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Obstructed Police Car
Refusing to move from the roadway in King-street, Newcastle on May 19 when Constable K. Dimmock driving the police car, sounded the horn. John…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Told of Lost Money
Allan Meldrum, or Christoe-road Waratah reported to Newcastle polio during the week-end that he los £4 10s in notes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal Is Rejected Aged M.L.C. to Go to Gaol Sydney
A sentence of 12 months imprisonment imposed on Theodore Charles Trautwein M.L.C. and hotel proprietor was upheld by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police On Licensed Premises
Pleading guilty to a charge of having been found on the licensed premises of the Albion Hotel. Wickham during prohibited hours on April 19…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fair Rents Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.)
On behalf of the owner (William Calman Graham of Gosford) Colin Alexander Shedden (trading as W. M. Shedden and Son) applied for a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.m.) Newcastle Police
Cecil Williams 31 laborer was fined £3 with 10s costs in default seven days imprisonment, when charged with having used indecent language at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Monday, May 20 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Fined for Stealing
Kate Stevens, 23, home duties, and Mary Sterio, 50, home duties, were each fined £5 on charges of stealing. Both pleaded "Guilty."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Builder Charged
William Edward Wilson, 38, builder, pleaded "Not guilty" to four charges. They were—That, on April 12, he drove a motor-car in Beanmont-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Newcastle Police Alleged Theft
Arthur Thomas Proctor, 20, laborer, was charged with having, at Hamilton, on July 28, 1939, stolen a bicycle, valued at £8, the property of James…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trautwein Goes to Gaol Sydney
Theodore Charles Trautwein, M.L.C., was taken to Long Bay Gaol to-night to serve a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment imposed for a breach of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →More Police Recruits Sydney
It was announced to-day by the Police Department that an additional 74 police recruits had been called up. They would begin training immediately as cadets…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fair Rents Court Rent Determined
Colin Alexander Shedden, of W. M. Shedden and Son, agent for William Calman Grahame, of Gosford, applied in the Fair Rents Court for the determination…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jury's Verdict Favors Police Inspector Sydney
A Supreme Court jury to-day returned a verdict for Police inspector George Gilbert Fergusson, defendant in a claim for damages by William…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman's Outburst in Court Sydney
When Judge Markell upheld a submission by counsel for the defence (Mr. B. McFarlane) that the Court had no jurisdiction to hear her claim for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Recasting Police New Plans In England LONDON, April 20
The British police detective system is to be recast, and methods of Scotland Yard, Metropolitan headquarters which has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court Kept Secret Of Six Stowaways LONDON, April 28
Six colored men were at Thames Police Court the other day sentenced to four weeks' hard labor for stowing away on board a ship…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Small Debts Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.)
A verdict for the plaintiff, with 13s 6d costs, was given, in the case in which S. McCrum, of Hunter Street, Newcastle, proceeded against Mrs…
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