Police Boys' Club
The Women's Auxiliary of the Police Boys' Club met last night and arranged a gala dance for Saturday night. Proceeds of the frolic held last Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1940
2,515 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 126
Death Sentence for Murder Sydney
After a retirement of 20 minutes, a jury at the Central Criminal Court today found Robert Edward Hepburn, 52, guilty of the murder of Arthur Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Industrial Court Hearing Adjourned
To permit amounts due being paid to employees, an adjournment to June 4 was granted in the four cases in which Shue Sang, corner of King and Union…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Search for Motorist Sydney
Police are seeking a motor-cyclist, who allegedly failed to stop after an accident in George-street to-night, when a woman received a fractured right leg. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Simpkins for Trial Heddon Murder Charge Detective Tells of Questioning
"I must commit Simpkins on the evidence placed before me," said the Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns), who concluded the inquest at Kurri Kurri Courthouse…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Illicit Sale of Beer Miner Convicted at Teralba Police Visited Shop
Joseph Wilkins Turner, of Rathmines, and Main-road, Neath, was fined £30, with 8/ costs, in default 61 days' imprisonment at Teralba Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Theft Of Groceries Reported To Police
Gordon McCore. of Dixon-street. Lambton, reported to Newcastle police yesterday that a box on his bicycle containing groceries, the property of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Found Guilty of Murder Publican Sentenced to Death Shot Woman in Flat Sydney
William Griffiths, 38, hotelkeeper, was found guilty to-day, in the Criminal Court, of the murder of Evelyn Grace Gabell, 46, on February 16. Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →In the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.)
James Brookes, of Railway Lane, Wickham, was fined 12s, with 8s costs, or two days, for having behaved in an offensive manner in Hunter Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court Thursday, May 30 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Further Remand
A further remand to June 28 was granted in the case in which Samuel James Walters, 19, a labourer, was charged by warrant with having, between…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Bankruptcy Court (Before Mr. R. Solling, S.M.)
Bankrupts examined were Robert Jolly Barr, laborer, of Frederick-st., Merewether; Alexander Clifford Bailey, plasterer, of Ingall-st.,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Half Pay for Period of Dismissal Police Who Were Reinstated SYDNEY
As an act of grace, the State Government has decided to grant half pay to four police constables between the period of their dismissal from the force in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Arrogant Alien Sent to Gaol Sydney
Pleading "Guilty" at the Parramatta Court to-day to having travelled without permission outside the police district in which he was registered, thereby…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Court Friday, May 31 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Indecent Language
Patrick Wells, 69, a labourer, was fined £4 for having used indecent language within the hearing of women and children at Jesmond, on Thursday, and…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →(Before Mr. R. Solling, S.m.) Sent to Gaol
Aubrey Gould, 24, a labourer, who was convicted on a charge of having stolen, at Newcastle, on May 23, 8/2, the property of Olga Edwina Dighton, was…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Not Contempt of Court Newspaper's Views on Punishment BRISBANE
Recently Mr. Justice Brennan adjudged contempt of Sportsman Ltd. guilty of contempt of court by the publication of an article relating to the manner in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Parents Object to National Anthem Police and Military Investigate Reports SYDNEY
Police and military authorities are investigating complaints made by the Headmaster of a metropolitan school and the headmaster of a school in the country…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pensioner Is Charged with Murder Sydney
Justifiable homicide was pleaded by Esau Henry Curran. 69, old age pensioner, at the Central Criminal Court to-day, to a charge that on April 6. he…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dance for Police Boys
A dance at the Newcastle Police and Citizens' Boys' Club, in the Civic Wintergarden, on Saturday night, was made more interesting by a floor show, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.)
Fight In Hotel Pleading guilty to having behaved in on offensive manner in the bar of the Pacific Hotel. Newcastle, on…
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