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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

3,806 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 191

Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 10

Rhoda Dunn, of Herbert-street, Belmont sued Felix Gunn, of Belmont, for £14 due for board. A verdict was given for the plaintiff for £10 and 16/6, court costs…

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Four Fires Police Inquiries SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 7

Detectives this morning commenced inquiries relating to four separate outbreaks of fire which had occurred earlier in the Star cabinet-making…

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MISSING Newcastle Hotel Man Police Inquiry

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 7

Inquiries are being made by Newcastle and Sydney police, following a report that the licensee of the…

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At Bailiff ! Charge of Shooting Woman Before Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 7

That she had fired a shot at a balliff, who had gone to her home to execute a warrant for the rent, was the allegation made against…

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Street Pests Women Make Protest Perils for Girls Want Special Women Police SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 7

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) was told about the tactics of street loungers by a deputation from the Council of Social and…

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Charlestown Court Thursday, March 13. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 10

Three first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness. One was fined 5/, in default 24 hours' hard labour; another 5/, with 8/ costs, in default three days' hard…

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Expects Arrest Gandhi's March Begins Gift of £49,000 Students Fight With Police (Australian Press Association.) CALCUTTA, March 12

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 March 1930 · page 8

At the head of 80 volunteers, Mahatma Gandhi left Ahmedabad this morning on his march to the coast, where he proposes to evade the Government salt tax…

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Police Court Friday, March 14. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 14

Alexander Mulvenna, 35, was fined 10/, in default 48 hours' imprisonment or drunkenness in Keightley-street, on Thursday night…

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Mostly in Gaol Five Years in Australia SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 10

Surprise was expressed at the Central Police Court to-day, when it was stated that Emilio Ligustri, an Italian, could not speak English, although he had been in…

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Theft of Socks Man With £635 in Pockets SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 10

When Edward Face, aged 49, was charged at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having stolen two pairs of socks, valued at 5/6, from a…

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Theft of £1161 Safe Breaking, and a Chase SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 10

Charged with having stolen £1161 from Adams's Tattersall's Hotel, in Pitt-street, city, on March 7, David Martin, aged 59, was committed for trial from the Central…

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Shot at Bailiff Woman Before Court SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 9

Charged with having shot at Roy Ischer with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, Lilian Osborne, aged 39, was remanded at the Redfern Police Court…

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More Women Police Protection of Girls Mr. Chaffey to Consider Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 10

A strong appeal for the appointment of additional women police to protect girls from city pitfalls, was made by a deputation representing the Council of Social…

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"RING-IN " CHARGES Powcull Case Before Court Three Remanded Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 3

Cecil Shannon, horse-trainer. Henry Thomas Chidham, school teacher, and Albert Wilfred Heddon were charged at Canterbury Police court to-day with…

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"Has No Terrors" Judge Beeby on High Court Metal Trades Anomaly Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 March 1930 · page 10

When it appeared likely in the Arbitration Court today that certain employers in the metal trades would refer his award to the High Court for an opinion as to…

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Amazing Burglary Loss from Minister's Home

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 3

Furs and jewellery to the value of £2000 were stolen on the night of January 3, from Beedingwood, Horsham, Sussex, the residence of the Rev. E. D. L…

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Adjournment Refused Sudden End to Stealing Charge Police Protest Discharged When No Evidence Offered

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 5

When two Justices of the Peace appeared on the bench with Mr. Reed, P.M., in the case in which Wlodarczyk, a Pole, and a former employee of the Crown, at Rothbury mine, was charged with stealing, the police prosecutor (Sergeant Turner)…

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Court Remands

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 7

Hilda Nash, 20, domestic duties, Mabel Kelly, 36, domestic duties, and Frederick Nash, 25, stone mason, were remanded until to-day, on charges of vagrancy, when…

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Newcastle Court Fines

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 8

For having behaved in an indecent manner in Scott-street on Saturday. Martin Hayden. 33, seaman, and Mary Meimouth, 26, were each lined 10s…

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Knife Stab Charge of Murder SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 March 1930 · page 5

"The Crown maintains that at no time was the accused in peril of his life, and that at all times he was the aggressor," said the Crown…

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