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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 205

Police Protection Southern Shearers Arrive Trouble in Queensland Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 6

Thirty police, armed with rifles and revolvers, paraded Springsure station yesterday morning when a train containing 40 New South Wales shearers arrived…

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Is Camorra Behind Newtown Murder? Shot Down in Bedroom Swift Death for Italian Fruiterer Crime of Vengeance? Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 7

Swift death from a revolver bullet fired at close quarters through an open window, came to Guisseppe…

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From the Capital Basic Wage Bombshell the Court and the Government Canberra, January 23

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 4

The Federal Arbitration Court has done what the Federal Government could not do—it has taken the only possible decisive step to restore the economic balance. The…

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Theft of Motor Cycle

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 4

Victor Sidencamp (20), laborer, was charged before Mr. Stevenson, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, with having, at Newcastle on January 24,…

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Stolen Bicycle Cessnock Youth Sentenced Month's Hard Labor

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 6

"A stop must be put to this sort of thing," declared Mr. Reed, P.M., at Cessnock Police Court to-day, when sentencing William Edward Fort, 24,…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 4

An application by William Stott, of Southon-street, Mayfield, for the transfer of the license of the Cricketers' Arms Hotel, Cook's Hill, from…

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Girl Shot Attempted Murder Charge AUCKLAND

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 5

Gertrude West, 19, is in a grave condition as the result of a shotgun wound in the body, received at her home at Te Awamutu…

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Warrant to Issue Husband Did Not Appear Wife Alleges Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 6

When the case in which Ann Caroline King' charged her husband, Reginald Wallace King, of Mount View-road, Cessnock, with assault was…

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Fears He Will Be Shot Companion of Murder Victim Italian Vendetta Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 6

Frank de Luca, friend of Guiseppe in Spina, the Italian who was murdered at Newtown yesterday morning, lives in hourly…

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Batoning by Police A.L.P. Seeks Inquiry FORBES

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 6

The Provincial Conference of the A.L.P., which met at Forbes to-day, carried a resolution "instructing" the Chief Secretary to carry out full investigations ill cases…

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He Went to the Races to Try New System Woman's Story About Man in Court Pictures in Newcastle Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 1

That he had gone to the races to try out a system, and failed, was the story told by a young woman, Esme Long of King's Cross, at the Central…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 9

Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., was on the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. Edward Fort, 24, was charged with…

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Alleged Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 2

With his left arm in a sling. Victor Sidencamp, 20, labourer, was charged with having stolen, at Newcastle, on January 24, one motor cycle, valued at £40, the…

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Newtown Murder Police Search for Wanted Man SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 6

Detectives who are engaged in making inquiries in connection with the murder of Guiseppe La Spinn, at Newtown on Monday, are now of opinion that the…

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Police Station

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 3

Important alterations and additions are proceeding to the police station. Very much improved accommodation will he provided for the police in carrying out…

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CHARGED 5s Month for Charity 'Bus

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 1

Stating that Mr. F. A. Stewart, who had placed a bus at the disposal of crippled school children, was being harassed by tho Transport Trust for a…

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Police Murdered Indian Youths to Die Calcutta Court's Verdict Calcutta, January 26

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 7

Harikishen, a young Punjabi, was sentenced to death at Lahore this afternoon, for the murder of Chanan Singhi, an assistant sub-inspector of police, and was…

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Sentences Displease Tamworth Sheep-stealing Cases TAMWORTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 6

Dissatisfaction at the sentenced Imposed by the Court on men convicted of sheep stealing was expressed at the annual meeting of the Tamworth District…

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Charred Body Murder Charge Begins Crowds Throng Court (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, January 26

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 8

Crowds waited for hours for admission to the limited accommodation of the old-fashioned court this morning when the trial began at Northampton Assizes, of…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 2

The transfer of the licence of the Cricketers' Arms Hotel Cook's Hill, was granted from Charles James Augustus Steel, to William Stott, of Southon-street,…

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