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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

2,785 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 45 of 140

Alleged Assault and Robbery

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

Ernest James Eckford, 29, laborer was charged by warrant before Mr. Gibson S.M. at Newcastle Police Court to-day with having at British…

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Hexham Accident Motor Cyclist Hurt Car Driver Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 11

The sequel to a motor accident on the Maitland-Newcastle road at Hexham on February 24, when Russell Ball was seriously injured, was the appearance at…

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Police Court Tuesday, May 7. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Weighty Exhibits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 4

Piled in the jury box, a number of tools and other articles, including shovels and spanners, attracted considerable attention. They were the weighty exhibits…

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Stole Handbag Boy Before Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

If his former employer is willing to re-engage him, a youth of 16, who was charged in the West Maitland Children's Court this afternoon, will…

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Machine Guards Cases at Court Electric Company Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 5

Prosecutions launched in connection with the provisions of the Factories and Shops Act relative to the erection of suitable guards around machinery were…

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"Altered Plea" Police Allege Threat was Made Gaming House Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 6

That he understood that one man had changed his plea to not guilty in consequence of some threat which was being held over him, was stated by Police Inspector Stein at Newcastle Police Court to-day, when 24 men, who were arrested by the…

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Licensing Court (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, L.m.) Booth Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 4

James Cusick, Clarendon Hotel, Newcastle, was granted the booth license for the grandstand and Leger booths at the Wallsend races on May 11…

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Bombay Unrest Police Restore Order 8 KILLED; 108 INJURED (Australian Press Association.) LONDON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 7

Eight people were killed and 108 injured in riots at Bombay, but, following the issue of the Curfew order, energetic measured taken by the authorities at the…

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Small Debts Court (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Judgment Set Aside

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 4

By consent the judgment made against William Hickson in favour of Mrs. E. Beaton, 80 Donald-street, Hamilton, in regard to rent alleged to have been…

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Four Months' Gaol Attacker Sentenced Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

Santonce of four months gaol was imposed on James Burns, 86, fireman, at the Contral Police Court to-day, after he had been found guilty of having, in…

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Kurri Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 6

Mr. M. W. Nott P. M., president at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday Herbert Bartlott failed to notify the a charge of having failed to notify the…

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Assault Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 7

A fine of £1 with costs and expenses amounting to £5 4s was inflicted when Essex Ev[?]gh proceeded against George Cowley on an…

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Destitute Men Magistrate's Sympathy Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 4

Ten men appeared in Court to-day on a charge of having refused to pay for food. Five of them were defended by Mr. Parker, who declared that his clients…

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Factory Theft Alarm Clock and Penny

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 7

An alarm clock, a sprit level, a tin of [?]ic paint and 1d are come of the things Stolen from the latest [?] of thieves in the West End…

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Meters Rifled Youth Charged Committed for Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 8

An extraordinary story of what was alleged to have been a sories of thefts from the coin peceptacles of gas meters was told in evidence before Mr. J. R. Gibson,…

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Leichhardt Assault "Plan to Stone Cars" Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

The hearing of charges against Francis Lees, 28, Patrick Honley, 33, Thomas Brisbane, 28, Albert Phegan, 30, Fredorick Perkins, 28 and James Cable, 28, in…

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Police Court Wednesday, May 8. Before (Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) No Prosecutor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 9

In the cases in which Raymond Clire Hardy (19), horse-trainer, and Carl Mlebel (21), labourer, were charged, on remand, with assaulting Albert Ernest…

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Maitland District Peculiar Claim a Widow's Suit Magistrate's Comment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 6

A peculiar case was heard before Mr. M. W. Nott, P.M., at the Kurri kurri Small Debts Court yesterday, when Hannah Thompson proceeded against R…

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Pitiful Scenes in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 4

There were very distressing scenes at the Sydney Coroner's Court yesterday, when an inquiry was held into the death of Denis Hearn, aged two months. Mrs…

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Two Arrests Made French Murder Mystery Third Degree Examination Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

Joseph Girrard, a gardener, and Francois Pinet, Manager of the Hotel de Monte Carlo at Alles, were arrested on Monday night in connection with the…

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