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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

3,806 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 191

Rift in Union Carpenters and Joiners Application to Court Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 April 1930 · page 6

Following the conflict between the New South Wales State Branch of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, and the Federal Council of the Society,…

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Stop Press Train Robbery Police Rush to Scene No Arrests Yet Sydney, Wednesday. 2.30 a.m

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

Every available policeman, from all stations between Parramatta and the Blue Mountains has been put on the search for the men who…

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Police Swoop Gandhi's Salt Makers Many Arrests Made Leader Still Has Freedom (Australian Press Association.) CALCUTTA, April 7

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

After practically morning the opening of Mahatma Gandhi's civil disobedience movement, the authorities at Bombay took swift action yesterday when over 60…

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Woman's Graphic Story of Hamilton Shooting Saw Brother Die! Woman Tells Dramatic Story at Inquest Pathetic Court Scene Young Man Shot Dead in House at Hamilton

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 April 1930 · page 1

Throbbing with emotion, Mrs. Alma Noreen Channon, a pathetic little figure in black, told a graphic story of the shooting of her brother, Alfred William Wallace, in a house in Steel-street, Hamilton, on March 29, at the inquest at Newcastle Court-house to-day before Mr. Pickett. She described an interview with her husband, when her brother (Wallace), who had…

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Man-hunt Starts as Train Robbers Escape Without Leaving Clue Police Baffled Mysterious Shot in Night at Searchers Hills Are Combed £17,000 Haul by Daring Bandits on Mountain Line PENRITH

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 April 1930 · page 5

Everybody travelling on the Great Western road, between Penrith and Katoomba, was under suspicion this morning. Police patrols were stationed at various points along the road, and everyone was interrogated. This was a result of the hold-up in the van of the Mudgee Mail last night, when about…

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Kurri Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 9

John Lewis was charged before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday, with having at Hebburn, on or about November 15, 1928, stolen a…

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Bankruptcy Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 7

Loss of trade owing to the general depression and outstanding debts were given as reasons for his bankruptcy by George Reynold Rodden, a clerk,…

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Police Court Wednesday, April 9. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Unlicensed Hawkers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 5

"If we get half a chance we will leave the town. We are hard up and we want to make a few bob," said Joseph Williams, 38, labourer, and Edward Farrell, 35,…

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Was Married Woman Misleads Court MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 6

Last month, when Ethel Williamson (22), of Walsh-street, Coburg, came before the City Police Court, her case was adjourned so as to enable her to carry…

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Four Murderers Dusseldorf Crimes New Police Theory Berlin, April 8

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 8

The Dusseldorf police have circulated nu official memorandum, which has been sent to all prisons, reformatories and mental asylums in Germany, asking for…

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The Cat Came Back Police Patrol Resumed 50 Charges in Month

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 8

Road hogs, corner-cutters, riders of noisy motor cycles, and others who break the traffic regulations--beware!…

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Police Think Train Bandits are in Sydney No Trace Train Bandits Still at Large Sydney Search Suddenness of Hold-up Baffles Police PENRITH

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 8

The police investigating the loss of over £17,0.00 in cash and cheques from the Mudgee Mail on Tuesday night, having exhausted every avenue of inquiry in the area between Penrith and Glenbrook without finding any definite clues, to-day are…

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Maitland and District News West Maitland District Court Fisherman's Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 9

Further cases were heard before Judge Sheridan at the Maitland District Court yesterday. John Neal proceeded against…

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On the Trail Police Busy All Day Train Robbery Guard's Story of Hold-up SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 7

The guard of the Mudgee train from which bandits stole £4690 in cash and a large sum in cheques last night, arrived back in Sydney to-night, and was taken to…

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New Creed Gandhi Changes Front "Resist the Police" Non-Violence Abandoned (Australian Press Association.) CALCUTTA, April 8

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1930 · page 8

The thousands of villagers who journeyed yesterday to Aat, in the Bombay Presidency, in expectation of seeing Mahatma Gandhi's arrest, were…

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Assault Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 5

Ernest Frederick Hinch, of Belmont, charged S. Purnell, also of Belmont, with having assaulted him at Belmont on March 29. Hinch stated that a boy…

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A Mean Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 4

Sir,—I wish to draw attention to a miserable act. Having turned my horse out in the Wickham Sports Ground at night, I was dumbfounded in the…

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By This Token Obtains Goods Easily Police Court Sequel

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 7

Armed with a token owned by his landlady's mother, Arthur Francis Saxon (32), laborer, succeeded in getting goods' of a total…

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The Argyle Case Thrilling Murder Mystery

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 3

Thomas Meighan, star of The Argyle Case, Warner Bros. latest production, which comes to the Strand Theatre on Saturday, has…

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150 ARRESTS Gandhi's Supporters Congressmen Charged Calcutta, April 9

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 April 1930 · page 10

Action by the police at Delhi in arresting 13 prominent members of Congress last night, is the latest development in the campaign to violate the salt laws…

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