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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1927

2,114 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 106

Big Jewellery Theft SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 5

Jewellery valued at £750 was stolen from the shop of Arthur Wigley, Sydney-road, Manly, yesterday evening…

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Industrial Court Thursday, April 7. (Before Mr. G. C. Addison, Chief Industrial Magistrate.) Cabinetmakers' Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 11

Frank Goddard, french polisher, carrying on business in Bull-street, Newcastle, was charged with having employed an improver contrary to the provisions of the…

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Municipal Appeal Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 11

The trustees for Church property in the Diocese of Newcastle appealed against the levying of municipal rates in respect of land occupied by Saint Luke's…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 11

William Leslie Murray proceeded against William Turnbull, claiming £12 for carriage of timber from Wallsend to Edendale, Lake Macquarie. The sum of…

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Wallsend Police Court Thursday, April 7. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 11

William Smith was fined 5s, in default detention till the rising of the court, for drunkenness, and 20s, in default seven days' imprisonment, for using improper…

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Newcastle Police Court Thursday, April 7. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.) No Railway Tickets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 12

William Watson (25), fireman, and John McKenzie (19), seaman, were charged with travelling in a train on the New South Wales railway, between…

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Maitland District District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 6

The Maitland District Court was resumed at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday, before His Honor Judge White…

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(Published by Arrangement.) Police Superintendent's Protest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 6

The Superintendent of Police, Boston, Michael H. Crowley, thus gave his opinion to the New York "Herald Tribune" on the seventh anniversary of the…

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Bankruptcy Court. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, District Registrar.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 12

Re Sidney Richard Bates, 45 Macquarie-street, Waratah, Mr. N. T. Cragg appeared for Messrs. E. W. Bull and Company, creditors. Bankrupt stated…

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Apply "Constant" Man Charged with False Pretences Home for Boys "Tried to Borrow £1 to Pay the Gas Man"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 5

Wanted, a lady collector, salary, commission, references required, state full parties.—"Constant." This was the notice inserted in a morning newspaper on February 12, mentioned in evidence at Newcastle Court to-day,…

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Rylands Win Piece Work Rates Appeal Upheld Full Court Decision SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 5

In September last year the Wire-Netting Makers' Conciliation Committee, whic[?] was concerned oinly with Ryland Bros., Newcastle,…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 6

Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., presided at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. Joseph O'Keefe was fined 5s, with 8s…

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District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 6

The Maitland District Court was resumed at the East Maitland Court House, yesterday, before his Honor Judge White. Johnson v. Nicholls.—The case was…

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Newcastle Police Court Friday, April 8. (Before Mr. W. I. Perry, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 12

Three first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. James Cameron was fined 20s, in default seven days' imprisonment, for drunkenness…

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Night Clash Four Bandits Killed Indian Affray Battle With Police CALCUTTA

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 1

At least four dacoits, or Indian bandits, have been killed in a fight with a police party. SERIOUS banditry is reported…

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Rylands and A.W.U. Full Court Judgment Majority Decision in Favour of Company. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 5

By a majority judgment, the Full Court to-day upheld the appeal of Rylands' Bros. (Australia), Limited, against an Equity decision in connection with an…

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"Got You!" Convicted Man Stabbed in Court Women Faint Owner of Property Adds to Law's Penalty

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 1

Women screamed and fainted in an English police, court when a man who bad just been fined for larceny was stabbed by the owner of the property concerned. The attacker was overpowered, but not before be had…

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Police Court Sensation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1927 · page 5

A sensational scene occurred in Southend Police Court. Edward Wilson, a Canadian ex-soldier, had just been fined 40s, for stealing a pair of boots and a razor,…

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Sentenced to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 April 1927 · page 5

At Dedham (Massachusetts), Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were sentenced to death for the murder of a paymaster and pay roll guard during a…

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Five Years' Gaol Offence Upon Young Girl GRAFTON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 April 1927 · page 5

At Grafton Circuit Court, before Mr. Justice James, Albert Collins, an aborigine, aged between 50 and 60, was convicted on a charge of having…

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