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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

3,806 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 191

Stolen Jewellery Man Sent to Gaol Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 10

Silk-lined boxes containing jewellery valued at £230 were displayed at the City Court to-day, when George Newsome, 43, was charged with thefts from Menzies…

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Workers' Compensation Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 8

A sitting of the Workers' Compensation Commission, of which Judge Perdrian is the Chairman, will be held at the Newcastle Courthouse on March 24. The…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 10

Execution to issue against James Russell, cited as a garnishee, was ordered in a matter in which the other parties concerned were John Grant Waddell and…

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Wallsend Police Court Thursday, March 6. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Information Dismissed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 10

Mr. H. L. Wheeler appeared on behalf of Robert Edward Goldie, 35, who appeared on an amended charge of having on January 27, made use of insulting…

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STOPPED Punt Overcrowding Police Take Action

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 6

"You are too late, there are already 100 passengers on the punt and you will have to wait till the next trip." A number of intending travellers on…

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Guyra Case Police Agents Dismissed SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 9

That the two police agents—Manning and O'Brien—who were connected with what is known as the Guyra sheep-stealing case, had been dismissed, was the…

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Powcull Case False Pretences Charge Trainer in Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 7

At the Central Police Court to- day. Albert Wilfred Hubdon, 20, trainer, was charged with having, on February 27, falsely pretended to John…

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Coalfields Cases Appeal to Full Court Prohibition Sought Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 9

The Full Court to-day commenced the hearing of appeals by way of an application for an injunction in the cases of Aubin, Gill, and others, and Saulaville…

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Put in Food Arsenic Poison Victims Police Evidence Wallpaper Theory Disproved SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 7

Who placed arsenic in the food eaten by Charles James and Miss Annie Murray, members of the Conjoin family, who are…

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Chief Justice Says Crime Increase Must Be Met by Severer Penalties Police Chase On Theatre Roof Hotel Robbed £1048 in Bag Recovered SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 7 March 1930 · page 7

Two men, said by be police to be well-known criminals, almost succeeded in bringing off a daring robbery at Adams's Hotel early…

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Two Years' Gaol Housebreaker Sentenced SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 10

When Maurice Kagansky, aged 28, was sentenced by Judge White at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day to two years' imprisonment for having broken and…

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Assault Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 4

On a charge of having unlawfully assaulted Edward Samuel Jones, of 23 Bennett-street, Hamilton, at Hamilton yesterday, Arthur Oswald Sutton…

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Brothers Sentenced Prosecution Cost £1518 BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 11

In sentencing two brothers, L. R. and S. R. Montefiore, who have been convicted at their second trial of conspiracy, to defraud the Ocean Accident and…

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Drunken Motorists Castigation by Magistrate SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 10

When sentencing Harley Chapman, aged 37, to three months' gaol (which was suspended upon defendant agreeing to eater into a bond to be of good behaviour for…

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Exciting Chase Two Men Charged SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 8

The story of an exciting pursuit over the roofs of several buildings in Pitt-street, early this morning, was told at the Central Police Court today, when…

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Seven Years' Gaol Step-father Convicted SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 10

Found "Guilty" of having committed a serious offence on his step-daughter, aged 15 years and 3 months, Thomas Frederick Ferrier Hamilton, aged 42, was…

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Artist's Wife Murdered by His Indian Model Wild Scenes Ten Released on Murder Charge Hugged and Kissed Police Fail to Recover Body LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 1

Wild scenes marked the release of the ten men charged with the murder of the Waterford Postman, Laurence Griffin, the police having failed to recover the body…

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Racing Case Trainer in Court SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 6

Charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having obtained £10 from John Underhill, Secretary of the Associated Racing Clubs, by falsely pretending…

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AUDACITY! Thieves Masquerade as Police Got Clear Away Lodged Their Victim in Prison ROME

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 March 1930 · page 1

One of the most audacious jewel robberies on record, was successfully carried out in Rome. The robbers masqueraded as police, and the unfortunate jeweller was lodged in gaol, while the thieves…

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Jeweller Injured Youth Charged Before Court Mayfield Case To Stand Trial On Two Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 March 1930 · page 5

At Newcastle Court to-day, Walter O'Hare, 19, was charged with having, at Mayfield, on February 5, assaulted Frank Case, jeweller, of Mayfield, and with having occasioned him bodily harm…

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