For Trial on Stealing Charge
SYDNEY, Friday.—The hearing was concluded at Kogarah Police Court to-day of the case in which Leo Graham Johnston, 35, poultry farmer, of Menai,…
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Courts & crime, 1941
1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 80
Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)
ASSAULT ALLEGED.—Wallace" Whitmee, 26, soldier, was remanded to Monday on a charge of having assaulted Constable Ronald Charles Presser, causing him actual…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Visit City Hotel
Police took about 40 names when they visited a leading Newcastle hotel last night. Many guests appeared to enjoy the experience of being on licensed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →East Maitland Increase in Court Cases
The number of cases heard and determined at East Maitland during 1940 was 114, compared with 65 in 1939, according to figures supplied by the Clerk of Petty…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cabinet Censures Police Privilege Claim in Caesar Divorce
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Premier (Mr. Mair) said to-day that Cabinet, after consideration of the remarks of Mr. Justice Street at the conclusion of the Caesar…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Carnival in Newcastle Funds for Boys' Clubs
Officers and men of the police force in Newcastle held a meeting yesterday to discuss with officials of the New South Wales Police Carnival Committee from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Case Reveals New Wool Process London
A sensational method of re-processing waste wool, giving it a quality "resembling Australian lamb's wool," was mentioned in a Court case at Leeds. A Belgian, Joseph Bailly, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →German Sent to Gaol
SYDNEY, Sunday.—For not having registered a change of address, a German, Quenter R. Falkenstein, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Newcastle Police Court Betting On Commission
Pleading guilty to having been in the parlor of the George Hotel, Newcastle, on Saturday for the purpose of betting. John Buckley (34), laborer,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Union Leader's Criticism of Closed Court
The secretary of Newcastle Electrical Trades Union (Mr. L. Wells) said to-day that he believed one of the reasons for the continued unrest in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unlawful Assault
Wallace Whitnee, 26, appeared on a charge of having at Lochinvar on January 5 assaulted William Parkinson, a taxi-driver, with intent to rob…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)
STREET BETTING.—A fine of £20 was imposed on John Buckley. 34, labourer, who pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of illegal street betting in Newcastle on January 11. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Dangerous Woman" Sent To Gaol LONDON, Dec. 5
Mrs. Ivy Bell (31), of Rose Hill Court, Bishopsford Road, Carshalton, sentenced to three months' hard labor at Crovdon, was told by the Bench:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Begged In Street
Joseph Mayberry (34), laborer, pleaded guilty to begging in Hunter Street, Wickham, yesterday, Remanding Mayberry for 24 hours, Mr. Soane, S.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Decide to Take Severe Action Vandals in the Suburbs
An assurance that Newcastle police would take "definite and severe" measures against any acts of vandalism or larrikinism was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Guns Now Shelling Tobruk Hour of Infantry Assault Near Rome's Remarkable Tribute to British Grit London
Australian artillery has joined in the bombardment of Tobruk, Italian coastal base in Libya, which is now in its sixth day of siege. The gunfire is kept up fairly heavily all day, but slackens at night. This massed shelling is a certain prelude to an infantry attack, which will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Licensing Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Transfer Of Licence
An application for the transfer of the licence of the Shortland Hotel. Newcastle from Cecil Baden Brown to William Joseph Huntley was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Small Debts Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Verdict For Plaintiff
A verdict for the full amount was awarded to James Dick and Alexander Dick, trading as J. and A. Dick, of Gibson Street. Newcastle, who claimed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaoled for Stealing Trousers
WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.—John William Dickinson, 28, a plasterer, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the Police Court to-day on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)
BEGGED ALMS.—Joseph Mayberry, 34 labourer, who pleaded "Guilty" to having been in Hunter-street. Wickham, on January 13, to beg alms, was remanded until to-day…
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