Charged with Shooting
KATOOMBA, Tuesday.—Hilton Sawyer, part-proprietor of the Imperial Guest House. Lurline-street, Katoomha, was shot in the right forearm early to-day…
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Courts & crime, 1941
1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 80
Preparing for Assault on Bardia
LONDON, Dec. 31. A.A.P.âBritish preparations for the final assault on Bardia, in Libya, are proceeding smoothly. A British General Headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Boys' Swimming Club
Officials of the swimming section of the Newcastle Police Boys' Club said to-day that each Sunday in the future, the winners of the heats in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Had One Case
For the lost day of 1940. the police had only one case to be dealt with by Mr. M E. Soane. S.M.. at Newcastle Court. Robert Rarelay Kennedy. 26…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.m.) Newcastle Police Court Collided With Police Cycle
Arising out of an accident on the Maitland Road. Tighe's Hill, on Tuesday night. in which the utility truck he was driving collided with a police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Belgian Headmistress Gets 5 Years' Gaol London. Wednesday
The Belgian headmistress of a private school at Antwerp tins been sentenced to five and a hall years' imprisonment for teaching her pupils…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Courts (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Newcastle Police Court Sent Back To Gaol
Percival Steele. 31, laborer, pleaded guilty to a charge that being an offender to whom a written licence was granted to be at large during the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)
COLLIDED WITH POLICE CYCLE.—Four charges were made against Ernest Noel Gilkinson, 18, labourer. The charges were that he drove a motor-truck in a manner…
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William Hurst, living at the Unemployed Settlement. East Cessnock, and Albert Ayrton, of George Street, Cessnock, were charged before Mr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Did Not Take Oath Charged Against 5 Men
When charges against five men, that being men liable to enlist for service in the Defence Forces, they refused to take the oath, were mentioned at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Membership Now 2100 Police Boys' Club Growing Rapidly
The membership of the Newcastle Police and Citizens Boys' Club has now reached 2100 and is increasing daily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Final Assault on Bardia Has Begun Italians Subjected to Intense Barrage Rome Radio Admits Losses London, Jan. 2. A.A.P.
After careful preparations extending over 15 days, the assault on Bardia by the British Army of the Nile has begun, according to reports received from several reliable quarters…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Steel Dispute Before Court Conference Called by Judge O'mara 1100 Men Now Involved in Roster Strike Sydney
Parties in the dispute at the Commonwealth Steel Co's. works at Newcastle which involves 1100 men, were summoned before the Federal Arbitration Court this afternoon by Judge O'Mara…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol Escapee Charged
SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. McCulloch, S.M., at the Central Court to-day, ordered Kenneth Raymond Jones, alias Carl Kennedy, 20, to be taken to Victoria in…
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Charges of having behaved in an offensive manner and having been drunk were preferred at Cessnock Police Court yesterday against Albert Ayrton, of George-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)
SENT BACK TO GAOL.—Percival Steele, 31, labourer, was charged with having broken the condition of his release from prison. The charge stated that Steele was sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →In the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.) Soldiers On Assault Charge
On three charges arising out of an assault on the Lee Wharf yesterday afternoon. in which it is alleged five men attacked Constable Ronald Charles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Man Charged by Cow
DUNGOG, Sunday.—While holidaying at Girvan, Mr. C. Humphries, proprietor of a small colliery at Wallsend, had a lucky escape from serious injury…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Harrow Boy Sent to Gaol London. December 1
A former Harrow School boy, James Arthur Radford Stevenson, of Branscombe, Devon, was. the other day at Exeter, sent to gaol for four months…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol Reform
SYDNEY, Monday.—Disciplinary punishment of prisoners at the beginning of their sentence will be abolished in New South Wales gaols…
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