Won Right on Tennis Court to Have Hair Bobbed
PIG-TAILED Mary Reynolds received cups as trophies for winning the Under 16 singles and doubles in the Victorian schoolgirls'…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1941
1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 80
Small Debts Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.) Rent Claim Succeeds
Reginald Grace, of Simon Street. Yeronga. South Brisbane, received a verdict for the full amount in his claim of £10 5s 9d for rent against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charged with Murder of His Sister Melbourne
Harold Woodier, aged 19, was charged at Nyah West to-day with the murder of his 14-year-old sister. Violet Woodier, whose body was found…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)
REMANDED TO TERALBA.—Ralph Sidebottom, 36, was remanded to Teralba on January 29 on a charge of having unlawfully assaulted Constable O. T. Watts in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Army Officer Charged with Corruption
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A captain of the Australian military forces, aged 43, a transport officer at Iugleburn Camp, was arrested to-day in the lounge of a city…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dance for Police Boys' Club
Two efforts in aid of the Newcastle Police Boys' Club have been organised by Constable F. Lamb, supervisor and organiser of the club. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Police Court Did Not Pay Fare
Anxious to get to Sydney to join the Army as a wireless operator. William Francis Hill, 49, laborer, caught the Brisbane Express at Dundee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Noteless Payroll Delivered at Police Station
Some people have a queer sense of humor. A man walked into Newcastle Police Station this morning and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Large Contingent From Sydney Train for Police Carnival
For the police carnival in Newcastle on February 22 a special train from Sydney will bring 450 men of the force. They will include the police band, police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop-work Meeting Called in Defiance of Court's Orders
The action of the men at Stewarts and Lloyds in holding a stopwork meeting last Monday in defiance of a Court judgment rejecting an application for permission to hold the meeting was referred to before…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tobruk Captured After Swift Assault Australian Division in Dawn Attack Italian Prisoners Total Thousands Whole Town In Flames After Fierce Bombing MELBOURNE
Australian Army headquarters was informed early this afternoon that Tobruk, the Italian naval base 70 miles inside Libya, had fallen to an assault launched yesterday by British and Imperial troops…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.) Stealing Charges
On the application of the Police Prosecutor (Sergt. C. E. Kennedy), Leslie Thomas Gibson. 19, laborer, was remanded to January 29 on two charges…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fined For Assault
Albert Ernest Jones, 51, pensioner, pleaded guilty to having assaulted Alice Parsons at Merewether on Tuesday and was fined £1…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)
FARE NOT PAID.—For having travelled in a railway carriage between Dundee and Newcastle without having paid the fare—£2/2/10—William Francis Hill, 49, a labourer,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers Before Court
Three soldiers appeared at the West Maitland Police Court, before Mr. E. M. Debenham, J.P., this morning on charges of having, on January 23,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Industrial Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Claim Dismissed
A claim for £67 1s 6d, alleged to be due for wanes and overtime, by Walter Wilson, of Dawson-street, Cook's Hill, was dismissed by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)
THEFT OF BRICKS.—Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen bricks, valued at £3/15/8, the property of Roy Wilson Brown, at New Lambton, on or about November 11,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault on Libya Australian Warships' Leading Part
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Australian warships have played a leading part in the assault on the Italian positions in Libya, the Minister for the Navy (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police War Fund
Sir,—Mr. F. J. Edwards, President of Lambton Soldiers' Committee, says the police have enough to do if they do their job, without working for patriotic…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. Soane First Magistrate to Retire at Newcastle
WHEN MR. M. E. SOANE, Stipendiary Magistrate at Newcastle, enters on annual leave to-day, prior to his retirement on March 12, he will…
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