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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

3,806 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 50 of 191

Escape From Gaol Bars Sawn Through MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 4

William Emanuel Roache (43) who is awaiting trial on a charge of warehouse breaking and stealing, escaped from Ballarat Gaol last night. This morning a…

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Stolen Boots Police Sergeant's Suspicions

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 5

Riding down King-street in the police patrol on April 4, Sergeant Harivel was intrigued by the sight of Alexander Shepherd, 43, laborer,…

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Kurri Police Raid House

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

A party of police, under Inspector W. Mackay, visited a house, at Standford Merthyr yesterday morning searching for some ammunition, alleged to have been…

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More Riots 4000 Invade Bombay Station Police Use Guns Calcutta

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 1

Riotous scenes occurred in Bombay, when continuous disorder, as an aftermath of the recent railway clash, culminated in a mob of 4000 inv[?]ding…

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Police Raid Communists on Coalfields Picture Shows ᶓ Theatres Civic Theatre

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 6

Theatregoers who remember the silent version of The Lono Star Ranger, presented some years ago when William Farnum was the…

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Alleged Arson Big Brewarrina Fire Buildings Gutted Police Make Two Arrests BREWARRINA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 6

A sensational fire which destroyed seven of the principal business houses in Bathurst-street, Brewarrina, early this morning, was followed some hours later by…

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In Round-up Communists are Raided Police Activity Reds to Miss Mine Meetings

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 6

An early morning raid, organised by Detective Bo[?]cell, upon a house in Stanford-Merthyr yesterday was a reminder of the struggle between…

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Court Stampede Prisoner Fires at Judge Restaurant Owner Shot Paris, April 5

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 5

Two remarkable shooting cases occurred to-day. A one-legged Roumanian, Maurece Autelsto, drew a revolver, and fired…

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Gandhi's March Now Nearing Objective Troops in Readiness Police Fire on Strikers (Australian Press Association.) CALCUTTA, April 5

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 5

Mahatma Gandhi's mass civil disobedience campaign is due to start to-morrow, but judging from reports front the provinces there seems little indication of any…

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Police Expect to Solve Mysterious Poison Cases SOLVED? Mysterious Poisoning Cases at Conjola Ant Exterminator in Pepper Pot SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 8

Arsenic placed by mistake in a pepper castor, is believed to have been the cause of the mysterious poisoning case, at Conjola, which has puzzled detectives for months. Patient and exhaustive inquiries were made, any every detail…

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Bound Over McConachy in Court Threatened Smith Match Played in Silence (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, April 5

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 April 1930 · page 6

The bad feeling between Willie Smith, the English billiards champion, and Clark McConachy, the New Zealand player, at present in England, was aired at the…

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Children's Court Alleged Indecent Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1930 · page 9

John Sperring, 59, cook, who was charged with having indecently assaulted a girl, aged 10 years, at Toronto, on or about April 1, was, on the application…

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Alleged "Ring In" Three Racing Men Charged Powcull Case Sensational Story in Police Court SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 April 1930 · page 6

That the horse entered as Powcull in a Novice Handicap at Rosebery on February 22, was really Violian, a tried performer, was stated by the Crown at the Central Criminal Court to-day, when a charge of conspiracy to…

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Fined for Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1930 · page 9

Alexander Shepherd, 43, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen a pair of boots (recovered), valued at 14/11, the property of A. J. Hamilton, at…

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Sent to Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1930 · page 9

Ethel Wilson, 20, machinist, was convicted on a charge of vagrancy and was sentenced to imprisonment, with hard labour, for one mouth in Maitland Gaol…

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Draper Remanded Charge of Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 April 1930 · page 4

Christopher Long. 49, draper, was charged before Mr. Gibson, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day with having stolen a pair of trousers,…

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Five Years for Assault Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1930 · page 6

Convicted at the Darlinghurst Sessions last-week on a charge of having, in company with Gerald McGrath, assaulted a garage employee at Double Bay, Leslie…

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Had No Friends Gaol for Soldier

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 April 1930 · page 6

Unable to find a surety, Francis Leslie Kenny, who was bound over in the sum of £40, at Maitland Sessions,…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 April 1930 · page 4

The license of the Great Northern Hotel, Plattsburg, was transferred from Samuel Miller to Leslie Thomas Turnbull by Mr. Gibson, L.M., at…

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Police Court Monday, April 7. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1930 · page 9

Five first offenders were dealt with for drunkenness…

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