Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Tue 11 Nov 1930 1
QUARTER SESSIONS.
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Monday, November 10, 1930.
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(Before Judge Sheridan.)
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Thirteen charges were down for hearing when the Newcastle Quarter Sessions commenced yesterday. Six cases were dealt with, and two were stood over until the next sessions. The other charges will be dealt with to-day. Two men were acquitted on charges of indecent assault, two pleaded “Guilty” to charges of breaking and entering and were remanded for sentences, and two women – one charged with bigamy, and the other in connection with the death of a child at Wyong – were bound over. The Crown Prosecutor was Mr RJ Browning.
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MAN ACQUITTED.
Henry James Beezley, 53, retired contractor, was acquitted on two charges of indecent assault [on Joseph Batey , 10 and Robert Long]. The jury announced its decision without waiting to hear the whole of the case for the defence.
Mr WJ Curtis KC, instructed by Mr Wheeler, of Messrs Harris, Wheeler, and Williams, appeared for Beezley.
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The Newcastle Sun, Tue 11 Nov 1930 2
THE ANCIENT GAG
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Coal Dust of Newcastle
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Judge Sheridan has found a new old reason for mumbling.
A witness at Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday shot out his evidence in a torrent of words through clenched teeth.
Counsel had pleaded with the man “open his mouth and speak,” and then Judge Sheridan took a hand.
“Why don’ you open your mouth,” asked the Judge. “I don’t know what is the matter with some of you Newcastle witnesses. Is it because you are afraid of getting your mouth full of coal dust?”
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COURT OBSERVANCE
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An air of solemn silence hung over Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day while the court stood for two mlnutes in remembrance of Armistice Day.
Court business was suspended as the Judge, bewigged barristers, the accused, and the crowded gallery stood at attention.
Then there was a rustle through the court-room as the Judge resumed his seat and the court business proceeded.
1 Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners’ Advocate, Tue 11 Nov 1930, p. 8.
2 The Newcastle Sun, (NSW), Tue 11 Nov 1930, pp. 6, 8. Emphasis in original.