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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

4,218 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 211

Dapto Tragedy Victim's Husband Charged WOLLONGONG

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 5

Harold Frederick Selden, 46, station-master at Dapto, was charged with having murdered his wife at Dapto on Saturday last, and was remanded for 21 days…

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Police Court Monday, January 18. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Incident at Islington

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 3

About 5.30 p.m. on Saturday, Constable J. C. Moran arrested Peter Moffitt, 35, labourer, on a charge of having used indecent language in the bar of the…

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Children's Court Information Dismissed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 3

Following evidence in the case in which an amended charge of assault on a girl at Toronto, on January 7, was preferred against David Corti Green, 27,…

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Strange Story of Assault Masked Men Entered Victim's House Battered in Head

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 5

A remarkable story of a night assault in a lonely hut at South Cessnock by two masked men, was told by Timothy Edward Barry…

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Residents Got No Water Illegal Interference with Hydrant Police Informed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 7

Residents of Estellville, near West Wallsend, went without water on January 3. The cause was discovered to be illegal interference with a…

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Melbourne Hold-up Special Court to Be Held MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1932 · page 5

The police intimated in the City Police Court to-day, that the charges against the four men who were arrested in connection with the shooting of Constable…

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Cessnock Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 7

Mr. F. D. Sutherland, P.M., presided at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. The adjourned hearing of the case in which Charles Hail, of Pokolbin, applied…

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"Touched" the Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 4

The belief that police magistrates, who deal with so much human driftwood, know their marks, was dispelled in Grafton Police Court yesterday, when a…

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Woman Charged Murder of Baby Boy Body Buried in Yard Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 5

Mrs. Emily Rosser was committed for trial at Port Pirie to-day on a charge of murder, after an inquest following the discovery of a male infant buried in the…

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Crowd Charged Glasgow Sheriff's Court Communist Riots Allegations "Not Proven" (Australian Press Association.) GLASGOW, January 18

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 6

There were exciting scenes outside the Glasgow Sheriff's Court during the trial for alleged rioting of Mr. McGovern, M.P., Harry McShane, a prominent…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 3

The transfer of the Exchange Hotel. Newcastle, was granted from Authony Barbette, to John Patrick Jones, of East Sydney. Mr. C. A. K. Cohen…

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Before Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 1

Mr. E. Campbell photographed during one of his broadcast speeches…

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Italian Charged Stabbing at Port Adelaide ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 5

On a charge of having stabbed Alexander Hosie, waterside worker, yesterday, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, Frank Marafoiti, an Italian, aged…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 7

Giacomo Nodari, licensee of the Bellbird Hotel, claimed £36 from Constable N. McLaughlin, due, it was alleged, for board and lodging, and money lent. The amount…

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Small Debts Court Claim for Rent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 3

A verdict for the amount claimed, with 7/ costs, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which Michael Carling, Milton-street, Hamilton, sued…

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Magistrate Orders Case to Go on Campbell Case (Continued from Page 1.) "Freedom of Speech"

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 5

Mr. Laidlaw said he doubted his authority to order the prosecution to amend the charge and also he doubted whether that…

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THE Talking Screen Murder by the Clock Mystery Play at Civic Programme Change

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 3

MURDER mysteries have had a major place in fiction for many years, and since the ad vent of the talkies, with their…

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Rival Bakers in Court Delivered Bread on Holiday

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 5

"If the opposition cuts it out—I will." This was the statement of two bakers, one from Belmont, the other…

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Lake Mystery Police Investigation Woman Identified Opening of the Inquest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 4

Though the body of the woman who died in Newcastle Hospital following her immersion at Fennell's Bay, near Toronto, was identified yesterday as that of Miss…

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Clegg in Court Remanded on Three Charges SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 January 1932 · page 6

William Carnegie Clegg, 50, a solicitor, and his former law clerk, Leila Beryl Smith, 39, again appeared at the Central Police Court to-day, charged on three…

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