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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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Street Preaching Sympathetic Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 7

A plea of "Not gnilty" was entered by Thomas William Brogan, 48, described as a preached, who was charged at Newcastle Police Court yesterday, with…

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Police Court Friday, January 4. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, R.s.m.) Drunkenness, Etc

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 3

For being drunk in Hunter-street. Newcastle on January 3, Eugene Henry Worthington, 33, labourer, was fined £1, in default seven days imprisonment…

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Cessnock's Record Orderly Police District

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 3

The number of summons cases and arrests handled at the Cessnock police station the past year shows a slight increase on 1927. There were very…

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Toronto Tennis Christ Church Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 7

The Christ Church Tennis Club held gala day on New Year's Day to mark the opening of the first court. The rector, Rev. J. G. MaeGregor, in welcoming Mrs…

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Getting Better District's Year of Crime Police Report

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 4

1928—8192 cases. 1927—8462 cases. These figures contained in a large blue paper a yard square, mutely…

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Insult to Italy Not Intentional Delinquents Before Court Innisfail

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 January 1929 · page 4

The sequel to the recent removal of the Coat of Arms from the Italian Consnlate was staged in the police court to-day, when Percy Dingwall, 18, and Walter…

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Missing Hoses Seven Days Gaol Vagrant Sentenced

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 2

A man went to three Presbyteries recently and asked for 2s and his fare to Sydney. After he had left on each occasion, the occupants of the…

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Escape From Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 4

Making his escape from Long Bay Gaol on Saturday afternoon, a confinee is still at large. The man being a confinee, and not a criminal, was allowed certain…

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Broke Window Youths Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 6

Three youths currying on Now I Year's Eve celebrations on the corner or Steel-street and Hunter-street, humped into one another, and a plate…

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Solicitor Charged SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 5

Norman Leonard Griffin, the Sydney solicitor, who was recently arrested in Brisbane on warrant taken out in May last, appeared at the…

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Western Murder Mystery Valley

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 8

Full of hair-raising episodes and typical western thrills, Mystery. Valley, which began at the Lyric to-day, should have a big appeal…

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Police in Smash

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 4

A raid on an alleged two-up school at St. Peters, which had been planned for a certain hoer on Saturday night, had to he postponed until later owing to seven…

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Grave Charge Young Man in Court Alleged Attack Remanded to Newcastle SINGLETON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 January 1929 · page 5

Charged with having committed an assault on a girl with intent near Belmont on December 80, George Burns, a young man, was remanded at Singleton Court…

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West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 6

Mr. D. W. Reid, P M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday Eric D. Whitmarsh was charged with…

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Solicitor Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 4

At the Central Police Court in Sydney yesterday, Norman Leonard Rex Griffin, aged 35, solicitor, who was arrested in Queensland, was charged with having in…

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Assault Charge Wickham Disturbance Three Months' Imprisonment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 3

A plea of "Not guilty" was entered by Wallace Edward Saxton, 29, labourer, before Mr. T. W. Cohen R.S.M. at the Newcastle Police Court yesterday,…

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Weston Police Station

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 6

For the erection of new building Weston Police Station, three tenders were received yesterday by the Tender Board of the public Works Department…

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Newcastle Police Quarters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 4

Of the three tenders received by the Tender Board of the Public Works Department yesterday for repairs and painting of police quarters at Newcastle, that…

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Police Court Monday, January 7. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, R.s.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 2

Four first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. For being drunk in Darby-street on Saturday, William Watson (50) labourer, was fined 10/, in default thre[?]…

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"Take It Out" Insulting Words Charge 7 Days' Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1929 · page 6

"I'll do the seven days, Your Worship," said William Palmer, 39, laborer, to Mr. Cohen, S.M., at Newcastle police Court to-day, when he…

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