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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1930

3,806 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 61 of 191

Resisting Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 7

Terence Dunlop was fined £2, in default 14 days, on each of two charges of having resisted Sergeant James and Constable H. A. Jones in the execution of…

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Constable Acquitted Alleged Mascot Assault SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 6

At Sydney Quarter Sessions to-day, Constable Thomas Hannan was acquitted on a charge of assault and occasioning actual bodily harm. It was alleged that accused…

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Legend Stealing Coventry City Angry Godiva Pageants London

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 4

THE citizens of Coventry are exasperated by the plans of Dudley, Shrewsbury, aud Manchester to infringe its time-honored…

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Bond Broken Youth Sent to Gaol SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 5

Alan Thomas Phelps (19), who was convicted recently of having attempted by means of poisoned chocolates, to administer poison to his sweetheart, with…

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Backed Into Police Car

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 9

When Thomas Neal, Devon-street, Wallsend, backed a motor lorry in Hundson-street, Hamilton, on April 7, the vehicle collided with a police car in…

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Eight Die 'Plane Hits Crowd Murder Charge Fayetteville (Tennessee)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 1

For the first time in aeroplane history a pilot has been arrested on a charge of murder…

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Second Trial Narrabri Murder Case Headless Body in Creek Armidale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 6

The second trial in what is known as the Narrabri murder ease commenced at Armidale Circuit Court, before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, this afternoon. Paul…

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Maitland District West Maitland Embezzlement Charge Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 7

Edgar, Purvis Earl Wallis, 41, pleaded "Guilty" before Mr. Justice Stephen at the Maitland Circuit Court last night to a charge that between November 14,…

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FINED £1 a Skin Police Seize 'Possum Pelts Ellalong Complaints

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 5

On a charge of having had eight 'possum skins in his possession at Ellalong on April 9, William Reginald Wade, an unemployed colliery worker,…

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Tramways Now Reversion to 48 Hours Application to Court Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 5

Application was lodged by the New So Wales Commissioner of Railways (Mr. W. J. Cleary) in the Arbitration Court to-day for an increase in the…

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Chinese and White Before City Court Several Charges Silk and Tobacco Thefts

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 5

There was an echo of the record epidemic of robberies in Newcastle Police Court to-day whew Bernard Paul, 22; laborer, appeared…

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Cessnock Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1930 · page 9

Mr. D. W. Reed. P.M., occupied the Bench at Cessnock Police Court yesterday morning. William Reginald Wade, of Ellalong,…

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New Proposals Made for Resumption at Northern Collieries Man Charged Suspected of Murder Police Hold Man Sequel to Melbourne Killing MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 April 1930 · page 5

The murder of Howard Thomas Walpole, 36, car driver, of Lonsdale-street South Geelong on Monday night is believed to have…

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Embezzlement Charge Hospital Secretary Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1930 · page 9

Edgar Purvis Earl Wallis, 41, Secretary of the Casino Hospital, who had pleaded "Guilty" to having embezzled £105/13/10, the property of the Casino District…

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REMANDED Man On Assault Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 April 1930 · page 7

Joseph Hunter charged at the Kurri Police Court to-day with having assaulted a woman at Abermain on April 7 was remanded by Mr. Reed…

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Alleged Theft of Ring Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1930 · page 10

Police this afternoon arrested a woman on a charge of having stolen a diamond ring from a [?] which she had been examining at Berkman's jewellery shop,…

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Mechanic Charged Arrest After Acquittal MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1930 · page 6

As he was leaving the Criminal Court this afternoon, after acquittal on a charge of having been in unlawful possession of explosives, Harry Weston, mechanic, was…

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Police Court Tuesday, April 29. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1930 · page 2

One first Offender was dealt with for drunkenness. One person charged with drunkenness failed to appear and his bond was ordered to be forfeited…

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Caught In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 April 1930 · page 6

Police Prosecutor Sergeant Phillipson (to witness in police court): Did you give the defendant any provocation to use strong language?…

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"Callous Crime" Narrabri Sack Horror Fifteen Years' Gaol Armidale

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 April 1930 · page 7

"You are one of the most callous cold-blooded and calculating individuals that has ever been before a court," said Mr. Justice Halso Rogers to-day…

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