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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 205

No Answer Suburban Police 'Phoned New System Needed

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 4

Frequently it happens that suburban police stations cannot be raised by telephone throughout the day. Very often the matters are trivial…

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Baton Charge Police and Unemployed Brisbane Demonstration Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 7

A clash between police and unemployed occurred outside the Treasury Buildings, Queen-street, about 3 o'clock this afternoon…

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Fatal Crash Car and Police Patrol Constable's Death Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 6

When the No. 2 police wireless patrol car came into collision with a sedan car at the corner of Bay and New streets, Brighton, at 6.15 a.m. on…

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Planned Murder Parallel to Rouse Case Amazing Revelations (Australian Press Association.) BERLIN, March 17

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 8

Further amazing revelations were made to-day, at the trial of Eric Tetzner, 25, commercial traveller, who stands charged with the murder of an unknown man in…

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Food Relief Tickets Police Hand Over Control Depot in Hunter-st

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 5

The Newcastle Labor and Industry Department will be taking over from the Police Department next week the work of issuing…

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Valuation Court Rating of Showground Judgment Reserved Question of Privileges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 13

Is the Newcastle Showground a public reserve? The question was argued at length before Mr. Justice Pike in the Valuation Court at Newcastle yesterday…

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Two Arrests Made Police Break up Meeting Labour Officials Threatened BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 7

Wild scenes occurred outside the Trades Hall to-night, when the unemployed held a meeting on the stairway. The first speaker was ordered to desist by the…

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£326,592,000 Banks' Turn-over Falls Wage Cut Wanted Arbitration Court Hearing MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1931 · page 7

The Full Arbitration Court to-day began the hearing of an application by the banks for a 10 per cent. cut in the wages of employees…

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Murder Charge Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 1

On a charge of murdering Richard Michael Malone on March 7, Ernest Sinclair Oldfield, 24, engineer, was further remanded till March 21 at the…

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District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 9

Twenty-six cases are listed for hearing at the Maitland District Court, which will be opened on March 30. It is expected that a large number will be settled…

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Riots Near Treasury W.A. Unemployed Sentenced PERTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 8

The hearing of charges against 11 unemployed concerned in the riot outside the Treasury on March 6 was concluded to-day…

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Whole Football Teams Given Six Months' Gaol BERLIN

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 1

The Coburg court has sent an entire football team to prison. While they were celebrating a victory some of the team badly mishandled…

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Police Court Thursday, March 19. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Young Man Bound Over

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 2

Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen a bicycle worth £5 at Marrickville during January, Robert Henry Kitt, 19, a labourer, was bound over for two years,…

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Ormond Murder Hazel Wilson's Death Evidence at Inquest Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 8

The morgue was crowded to-day when the Coroner (Mr. Grant) began an investigation into the death of Adeline Hazel Wilson, 16, whose body was found on a…

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Sad Domestic Tragedy Murder and Suicide Sydney Inquest Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 2

The story of the de Britt's sad domestic life was told in hte Coroner's Court to-day when the inquest into the terrible double…

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Three Shots Fired in Police Chase Men Raid Hotel Bar At Belmont Police Fire Fugitives One Arrest

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 1

Three shots were fired in an exciting police chase after a man who rushed out of a Belmont Hotel in the early…

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Amazing Story of Shooting Alleged Admission of Murder Strange Forbes Case Forbes

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 1

Astonishing evidence was given during the inquiry by the Coroner (Mr. Sam) into the death of Robert Hill, who…

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Flat Tragedy Wife on Murder Charge "Jealousy Unbearable" (Australian Press Association.) NICE, March 18

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 8

Mrs. Charlotte Nirdlinger, former winner of the beauty contest title of "Miss St. Louis," was loudly cheered when she appeared in court to-day to stand her…

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Ormond Murder Who Killed Hazel Wilson? Inquest Story Girl's Body Found on Vacant Land MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 7

When the inquiry by the Coroner, Mr. Grant, P.M., concerning the death of Hazel Wilson, 16, of Milton avenue, Ormond—whose body was found on a vacant allotment in Oakley-road, 160 yards from…

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"In Cigar Boxes" Mrs. Alexander's Money Probate Court Evidence Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1931 · page 7

When the probate suit in connection with the estate of the late Mrs. Hannah Alexander was resumed in the Probate Court to-day, Phineas Sheldon, nephew…

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