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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

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Police Court Thursday, May 30. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 5

On charges of drunkenness, three first offenders forfeited their bonds, another was fined 5/, in default three hours' imprisonment. James Cameron (63) was…

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Wrongful Arrest Verdict for Plaintiff £550 Damages for Assault Warwick

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 8

After a retirement of three hours, the jury to-day returned a verdict, in favour of the plaintiff, in an action in which John Robert Trivett, licensee of…

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Gaol Next! Drunken Driver Fined £35 P.M.'s Threat Muswellbrook

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 5

"Goal will be the penalty for such offences in future," said Mr. Gelkie, P.M., at Muswellbrook Police Court to-day, when…

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Confidence Men? Professor's Story to Police BRUSSELS

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 5

At the request of Scotland Yard, the local authorities are inquiring into a London professor's statement that he was befriended while recently in…

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MAROONED Water Police Cold Wait Stuck on Bank

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 4

To be marooned on a mud bank in Newcastle Harbor, near the Steel Works, in the early hours of the morning, was the unfortunate experience of…

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Merewether Assault Costs Pastrycook £26

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 2

A smokestack that smoked more than tonal and an application to Merewether Council for the abatement of an alleged nuisance combined to cause a series of…

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Police Court Friday, May 21. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Summons Division. Prohibition Order

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1929 · page 2

A prohibition order under the liquor Act was issued against John Beahen, of 14 Dibbs-street, Adamstown, for a period of 12 months…

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Police Transfers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 4

Several transfers are being made in the Newcastle district. Sergeant W. Moore has been transferred from Newcastle West to the charge of Broadmeadow in…

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Four Men Charged Car and Groceries Missed Maitland Remand

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 3

"Known to the police, and one of the men is Just out of gaol," said inspector Graham, in opposing the granting of bail, when four young…

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Printers Opposed Federal Court Abolition

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 4

The proposal of Mr. Bruce to abolish the Federal Arbitration Court was considered at a meeting of the Board of Management of the…

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Women Litigants Restrained by Court "Tormenting Actions"

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 6

The notice in a recent "London Gazette" that the High Court had made an order restraining a woman from embarking upon litigation without…

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In France Hard Court Championships Paris

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 June 1929 · page 7

In the quarter finals of the French hard court championship on Friday. A[?]ssem beat Home, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. The hall crossed the not 80 times in the last rally…

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Loved Their Fire Men Fined for Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 5

Reminiscent or the aborigine who sloop all day by their fires, was according to the police, the occupation of Henry Owen Wixon, 24, laborer,…

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"In Awful State" Vagrant Sent to Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 6

Edward Joseph Nicholls, 53, laborer, who was sentenced to one month's hard labor on a charge of vagrancy, by Mr. Gibson, S.M., at Newcastle…

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"Lot of Savages" Magistrate's Rebuke Queue at Bellbird

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 6

Unruly seenes among a crowd applying for police relief at Bellbrid police station on the morning of May 20 were described by Constable…

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Maitland District Motor Car Case Illegally Using Four Men Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 6

The four young men concerned in the disappearance of the Essex motor car from High-street on Saturday night appeared at the West Maitland Police Court…

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£20 FINE Drunken Driver in Court Leniency Plea

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1929 · page 5

Pleasing guilty to a charge of having driven a car while under the influence of liquor in Hunter-street on June 2. Garald Wilson. HIai license woe suspended for a lontn…

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Cessnock Police Court

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

Mr. M. C. Nott, P.M., presided at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. Thomas Lomas and Arthur McDonald were charged with having used…

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Charge of Murder Husband in Court SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 June 1929 · page 6

Martin Michael Antin, who was charged to-day at the Burwood Court with the murder of his wife, May Antin, at Bankstown, called out…

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Assault on Workers Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 June 1929 · page 6

The story of an assault on two timber workers, at Rozelle, was told at the Balmain Court to-day, when James Phegan, 25, and James Fitzpatrick, 24, were…

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