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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1931

4,091 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 62 of 205

Man Slashed with Razor Tighe's Hill Man Remanded Police Allegations

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 April 1931 · page 3

Allegations that he had last night slashed a man in the arm so severely with a razor that 14 stitches had…

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Brisk Bidding at Cessnock Police Station Unclaimed Property Auctioned Mostly Clothing

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 April 1931 · page 3

Bidding was brisk at the sale of unclaimed property at Cessnock Police Station to-day. More than 60 bargain seekers sought to…

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Tennis To-night Sydney Players Here Court Covered To-day

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 April 1931 · page 2

Learmonth Park court was not in playable condition last night owing to the rain, and the matches set down were postponed until next week…

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Serious Rioting in Egypt Demonstrators Hold Up Passenger Train Police Fire on Mob Cairo

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 April 1931 · page 3

SERIOUS rioting in Upper Egypt followed the holding up of a train conveying notable persons to Mansura to attend a reception to…

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Tamworth Assault Case Tamworth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 6

Said to have been attacked by a man who asked for 10/, J. McKenzie, a returned soldier from Kentucky, was taken to Tamworth Ambulance Station last night,…

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Man Speared Aborigine Charged CAIRNS

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 7

After a long and arduous police search in difficult country, an aborigine named Peter has been arrested and charged with the murder of…

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Lost His Money Confidence Men's Victim Assault Near Mascot Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 6

John Hanley, of Enmore, was the victim of confidence men yesterday. Entering the bar of a hotel at Paddington, he met two men with whom he soon became very…

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'Busmen Fall Out Over Time-table Insulting Words and Assault Both Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 5

Claiming that he had been insulted by Charles Reynolds Howarth, of Lambton-road, Broadmeadow, for not running his 'bus to time-table,…

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In the Ceiling Police Find Suspect Property SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 6

Police, who visited a house in Buckingham-street, Redfern, yesterday, to arrest a man for whom a warant had been issued, did not locate him but their visit…

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Murder Confessions Doubted Russian Wheat Dumping Promises Evaded by Soviet Britain Perturbed London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 6

Russian wheat dumping is embarrassing the Government's agricultural policy, the Government realising…

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700-Mile Trek Police Get Wanted Man. Man Killed at Cape York Cairns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 5

Behind the arrest of an aborigine named Peter, in connection with the death of James Thomson, a dingo scalper, lies a story of grim determination on the part…

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Intense Anxiety For Safety of Boy Lost in Blue Mountains Bush It's Obvious I Am Here to Steal Alleged Reply to Police Question Man for Trial

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 April 1931 · page 5

"What are you doing here?" asked a constable, when he found a man in the kitchen of a house he had been called to,…

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Fined for Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1931 · page 9

Arthur Allan Taylor, 22, labourer, and William Henry Hansen, 19, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen, at Broadmeadow, on or about…

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Maitland District West Maitland Police Court Six Convictions Unauthorised Wireless Sets

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1931 · page 7

Six persons were proceeded against at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., on charges of having wireless sets installed…

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Unemployed and Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1931 · page 4

Acting on behalf of a deputation of unemployed youths, Mr. G. Boothi, M.L.A., recently made certain representations to the Chief Secretary (Mr. Gosling),…

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Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1931 · page 4

Mr. Justice James will preside at the Maitland Circuit Court will be opened at the East Maitland Courthouse to-day. The District Registrar (Mr. M. J…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 April 1931 · page 4

At the Newcastle Licensing Court to-day, Thomas Leslie Fines, license of the Lemongrove Hotel, Wallsent, was granted a booth license for a…

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£400 CLAIMED Alleged Assault in Hotel SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1931 · page 6

The story of an alleged fight was told in the District Court, before Judge Armstrong and a jury, to-day, when John Morris claimed £400 from Victor Collins…

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Gaol for 23 Months Fobbed Houses at Hamilton

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 April 1931 · page 5

William John Thomas, 26, was sentenced to imprisonment for 23 months when he pleaded guilty, before Mr. Justice Jaines at the…

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Cessnock Miner Sentenced to Death for Murder Grim Story of Quarrel in the Bush Woman's Body Found Near Sulky Man with Hand Off

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 April 1931 · page 5

Faced with the charge of having murdered Emily Hughes at Nulkaba, near Cessnock, on…

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