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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

2,785 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 140

Not Guilty Circuit Court Trial

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 April 1929 · page 7

Evidence of a police vigil in the bar of the Centennial Hotel, Newcastle, on the night of March 16, when a man was arrested at revolver point…

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Murder in Sydney Assyrian Victim Another in Hospital Tragedy in Garage Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 April 1929 · page 4

Two shots rang out at 2 o'clock this morning in a motor service station at Darlinghurst. A doctor, who heard the firing and ran across to the…

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Chinese on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 6

Charged with murder, Har Chock Ting, or Whillie Tong, a Chinese, stood his trial at the Supreme Court at Dubbo yesterday. Ting killed Charlie Lee Len…

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Police Court Thursday, April 18. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 11

The first offenders were dealt with for being drunk. Margaret Hellstrom, 35, was fined 10/, with the alternative of 24 hours' imprisonment, for being drunk…

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Gaol for Three Years Case From Islington "Danger to Public" Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 5

John Clutterbuck, who was convicted at Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions of having committed a serious offence against a girl of nine years,…

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Maitland District Circuit Court Maitland Sitting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 8

The Maitland Circuit Court was held at the East Maitland Court-house yesterday, before his Honor, Mr. Justice Ferguson, Acting-Chief Justice. Mr. J…

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Insulted Police Returned Soldier Fined Trouble on Tram

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 5

When George Palmer, 31, watchman, a one-armed Digger, came before Mr. Gibson. S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, he was fined £1,…

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Potato Cargo Damaged by Floods—- —-Police Guards in Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 8

RAIN-DAMAGED POTATOES.—Over 1000 tons of potatoes which arrived in Sydney yesterday were found to seriously damaged by water in the recent floods in that State. The picture on the right shows them being picked over. A QUIET HOUR among the swans at the Bolanie Garden Melbourne…

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Bankruptcy Court (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, District Registrar. Tenants Did Not Pay Rent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1929 · page 11

In re George Mackintosh, railway shunter, of Marmong Point, Liabilities, £205/16/9; assets, £59/13/5. There were no creditors present. Mr. J. S. Johnson…

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Bogus Nurse Sentenced Magistrate's Criticism

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 20 April 1929 · page 5

How a woman successfully posed as a registered nurse and obtained employment at several exclusive London West End nursing homes was related…

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Islington Assault Three Years' Gaol Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1929 · page 4

John Clutterbuck, who yesterday was found guilty of a serious assault on a young girl at Islington last December, came up before Judge Armstrong for…

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Police Court Friday. April 19. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson. S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1929 · page 2

One first offender was dealt with for having been drunk. TROUBLE IN CAFE. Arthur Cookman, 21, seaman, and…

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Fainted in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1929 · page 4

A fine of £10, imposed on Thomas Prowse, 34, at the Central Police Court, in Sydney, yesterday, caused the defendant to reel over in a fainting fit. He did not…

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Revenge the Motive East Colac Murder Detective's New Theory Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1929 · page 4

A visit of Senior Detective Cickerdick and Constable McInerny to Pirron Yallock yesterday, where they questioned a woman, is believed to have thrown light…

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Police Informer Gangsters Kill Him Vancouver (B.c.)

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 20 April 1929 · page 1

A Chicago message states that Jo[?] Perconti, whose information led to the arrest of the kidnappers of the 10-year-old Billy Ranjeri, has been…

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Timber Workers Court Proceedings Demonstration Planned Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 April 1929 · page 4

The timber strikers hope to make a farce of the proceedings, when 39 men, who have been summonsed for breaches of the Arbitration Act, appear before…

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Assault with Bottle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 6

Several members of a gang forcibly entered the home of Samuel George, a butcher, at Paddington, on Saturday night and felled him with a blow on the…

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Alleged Assault and Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 6

When Ernest Ryan, aged 28, and Ernest Lloyd, aged 27, appeared at the Central Police Court in Sydney on Saturday on a charge of having assaulted and robbed…

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Newcastle Police Social

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 6

Members of the Newcastle branch of the Police Association of New South Wales will hold their annual smoke concert in the Oddfellows' Hall, Auckland-street, on…

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Majestic Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 April 1929 · page 5

The finals of the open men's doubles electric light tournament, promoted by Mr. A. Milton, Wallsend, will be played to-morrow night between Kelly and…

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