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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1925

2,043 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 80 of 103

Police Court Charges Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 7

On the grounds that their imprisonment night be prejudicial to the success of next Monday's compulsory conference, Dr. Evatt obtained a remand for a week when…

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Reds Charged Remand for Week Crowded Court light Bail Fixed LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 1

Wearing red hats, the wives of Inkpen, Cant, Pollitt, and Wintringham were prominent in the crowded court at Bow-street, when the communists…

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Valuation Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 8

Mr. Justice Pike presided at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday to hear objections against valuations under, the Local Government Act…

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Newcastle Police Court. Thursday, October 15. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 2

For drunkenness a first offender was dealt with, and George Turner (75) was fined 15s, in default seven days' imprisonment…

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Out of Luck Wrong Seaman in Gaol AUCKLAND

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 5

The seamen's strike was responsible for a delightful court comedy the other day. Seventeen strikers had been…

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Man Shot Fellow Boarder Charged Remand on Bail Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 7

During a quarrel a man was shot in Richards-avenus, Drummoyne, last night. William Ben Green and Henry…

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Sedition Charged Raid on Communists Arrest of Leaders Sensation in London (Australian Cable Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 7

Scotland Yard yesterday raided the headquarters of the Communist Party. The detectives arrested Mr. Inkpen, secretary; Mr. John Campbell, editor of the…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, District Registrar.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 2

Re Albert Foster Edwards. Bankrupt was not present. The official assignee had written, requesting the matter to be adjourned, for at least a fortnight…

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Newcastle Police Court. Friday, October 16. (Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1925 · page 11

Two persons who did not appear to answer chargers of drunkenness bad their bonds forfeited. For having been drunk and disorderly on Market wharf…

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Balkans Again Murder Plot Discovered BUCHAREST

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 17 October 1925 · page 1

The police have discovered a Bellenevik plot to assassinate the King and Queen of Rumania, which would be the signal for a revolution…

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Java Murder Mrs. Macfie's Death Consul's Letter Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 17 October 1925 · page 8

Full Information of the, tragedy at Garoct. Java, where Mrs. Macfle, wife of the Consul for Spain in sydney. Mr. H. C. Macfle. was murdered at the…

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Shipping Strike Attitude of Owners Will Attend Court But Deny Its Jurisdiction Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1925 · page 5

A cable message received by this association to-day, said Mr. N. C. Seale, the deputy chairman of the Oversea Shipping Representatives' Association, states…

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Assault Charge Paxton Man Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 October 1925 · page 8

Stanley Reese, a new arrival from England, was arrested at Paxton last night on a charge of having assaulted a married woman on Saturday night,…

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Missing Letters Postal Assistant Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 October 1925 · page 4

A postal assistant, Thomas Malsem, 22, appeared before Mr. Shropshire, S.M., at Newcastle police court today. He was charged with having, at…

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Bail Refused Wealthy Man Charged LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 October 1925 · page 4

Hayley Morris, aged 27, a wealthy county magnate, living at Crow's Nest, Nutley, Sussex, and Mrs. Madeline Roberts, 20, Morris's housekeeper, pretty,…

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Court Favored Ryland's New Award

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 October 1925 · page 5

The employees of Rylands wire and rope works covered by the A.W.U. decided at a meeting in the Trades Hall yesterday that the case of a new…

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Riot Threat Seamen Object to Prosecutions Warning to Police Compulsory Conference in Sydney Fails. SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 October 1925 · page 5

That the riots in Melbourne on the occasion of the police strike two years age would be repeated if the shipowners issued fresh summonses, was the threat uttered by Mr. O'Nelli, leader of the striking British seamen at a meeting held at Melbourne last night…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 October 1925 · page 6

Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Police" Court yesterday. Gerald Fencley was fined 5s, with 8s…

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FINED £20 Assault on a Woman

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 October 1925 · page 5

Stanley Rees was charged at the Cessnock Police Court to-day with having indecently assaulted a was an at Paxton last Saturday. After the…

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"I Was at Home" Stealing Charge Case Dismissed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 October 1925 · page 5

Charged with having stolon 16s, the property of Agnes Herbert, of Merewether, on September 24, Leslie Smith, 21, staman, appeared before Mr…

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