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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1929

2,785 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 62 of 140

Before Court Charge Against Miners' Leader Fine Imposed Incident at Ashtonfields Pit

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 5

Because the miners wanted to hear the case at West Maitland Court, against the President of the Northern Miners' Federation (Thomas Hoare) and a Kurri lodge official (William Shakespeare), Ashtonfields mine did not work to-day…

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Atlantic Flight Busy Byng Child's Record Hit by Train Conflicting Reports LONDON, Sunday. London Police Reforms Crooks' Bad Time Motor Bandits Next LONDON, Sunday. Flight to India LONDON, Sunday. Indian Lorry Smash CALCUTTA

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 1

Reports conflict regarding Major Franco, Captain Gollary and Captain Ruls Al[?]z, who left Cartagena, Spain, to fly to New York, via the Azores. The "Daily News" credits Lord Byng's energetic measures with London's comparative freedom expect from motor bandit A record long distance flight for a child began when a three-year-old boy, accompanied by his parents, left Croydon for Europe in the When a train collided with a motor lorry filled with guests' on their way to a wedding, four persons were killed and nine injured, three critically. One…

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Accused Collapses Sensation in Court Magistrate's Caustic Remark Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 4

Norman Allen Connelly, a partner of Baloan-street, Coburg, collapsed, and had to be carried out during the hearing of a charge against him at Brunswick Court…

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Alleged Poisoning Girl Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 6

Alleged to have taken a dose of Iysol near the ladies' reserve on the Newcastle Beach, about 11 o'clock last night, a girl, aged 18 years, was taken to the Newcastle…

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Attempted Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 4

Following up a shooting affray at a house in Layton-street, Camperdown, on Saturday night, Henry Clay Hamill, aged 23, appeared at the Newtown Police Court…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 5

At Newcastle Licensing Court to-day, 90 applications for renewals of liquor licenses were granted by Mr. Gibson, L.M. These included 55 hotel…

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Police Court Monday, June 24. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 7

Three first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. Frederick Thomas Mimess, (57), was fined 10/, or 48 hours' imprisonment for being drunk in…

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Petrol Stealing Warning by the R.A.C.A.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 8

The Royal Automobile Club of Australia desires to warn motorists that there in much thieving of petrol going on at the present time in Australia, and…

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Fine and Costs Northern Miners' President Charge of Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 3

The trouble which occurred at the Ashtonfield Colliery, near Thornton, oil June 4, was related at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday, when Thomas…

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Clerk Threatened Extraordinary Story Stoker Sent to Gaol Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 6

William Johnson Frew, 22, a stoker off the Diomede, the visiting New Zealand cruiser, appeared before the Police Court to-day, charged with stealing a silver…

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Boulders on Line Police Investigating

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 7

While Ganger Cole was examining his length between Fassifern and Awaha, he discovered, at the 87-mile post, that a number of large boulders and been…

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Police Action Boulders on Railway Line

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 5

Police Inquiries into the placing of stones on the Newcastle-Sydney railway line, between Fassifern and Awaba, recently, have led to three…

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Gipsies by Car Wanderings Halted Police Questions

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 5

To be a gipsy free to wander the world over is not the untroubled business that it' was in the days of the home caravan. Even the gipsies have…

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SHOPLIFTERS Watched by Police Stores Raided "Came from Sydney"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 5

Shoplifters alleged to have come from Sydney operated in Newcastle this morning, and soon after noon were arrested in…

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Arbitration "Court Must Go" Mr. Gullett's View Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 6

Speaking at a luncheon given by the Constitutional Club to-day, Mr. H. S. Gullett (Minister for Trade and Customs) declared that the Federal…

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Assault Alleged Timber-workers in Court Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1929 · page 6

On a charge of having assaulted and then ill-treated Joseph Lapham, at Annandale, William Moore, 25, and Mervyn Carmichael, 22, timber-workers, were…

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Police Court Tuesday, June 25. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1929 · page 3

Two first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness…

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"CALLOUS" Miners Prosecuted Theft Charge Pelaw Main Mine Case

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 June 1929 · page 6

"It is a cold, callous prosecution, and the least that could have been done was to have warned the men. Mr. Brown has…

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Maitland District District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1929 · page 8

The June sitting of the Maitland District Court was opened before his Honor Judge White, at the Courthouse, East Maitland, yesterday morning…

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Cessnock Court Colliery Cases Withdrawn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 June 1929 · page 8

Mr. M. C. Nott, P.M., presided at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. When the cases were called against Frederick Hemmingway, Manager of…

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