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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

4,218 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 211

Illicit Spirits Charge Brothers Appear Before Court Case Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 5

Richard Herbert Kempley, 39, laborer, and John Kempley, 37, printer, were charged before Mr. Stevenson, S.M., at Newcastle Police…

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Desperadoes Beat Off Militia and Police Machine Gun Used From Window Sheriff and Six Men Killed Outright Escape in Dark St. Louis

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 January 1932 · page 1

When 75 police backed up by a detachment of militia went to a farm 10 miles outside the town of Republic in…

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Constable Charged with Theft Alleged Delivery of Stolen Leather Court-house Thronged. Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 6

Intense Interest was shown in the Windsor Court to-day, when the, case in which Walter Stanley Hitchcock, 31, a police constable…

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East Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 7

Before Messrs. M. J. D. Austin and J. J. Huer, Js.P., at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday, William Henry Sams, 55, was fined 30/, in default three…

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Gaol Inspection Popular

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 4

Interstate and city visitors flocked to the historic Berrima Gaol, near Moss Vale, during the holidays, and as many as 500 were shown through the building…

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Pickpockets Sentenced. Sydney

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

Convicted at the North Sydney Police Court to-day on a charge of having attempted to pick pockets, Reginald Riordan, 31, William Harris, 32, and Norman…

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Maitland District West Maitland Police Court Constable Assaulted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 7

Mr. F. D. H. Sutherland, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Harold Edwards, 24, of Railway-street,…

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Four Shots Fired Man Arrested by Police Intent to Murder Charge. Sydney

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

Following the firing of four shots at Erskineville yesterday afternoon, police this afternoon arrested a man against whom a charge of shooting at Ernest…

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Unions and Gaol Clergyman's Allegation BATHURST

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 6

Speaking at the Baptist Church last night, Rev. J. Hunter said that a conviction was rapidly growing that no gaol in New South Wales could hold a…

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Resisted the Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 2

Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having used indecent language in Perkin-street, Newcastle, on December 31. William Benjamin Ellis, 39, labourer, was fined £2,…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 7

In the Licensing Court, Stanley Vivian Creamer, license of the Cessnock Hotel. Cessnock made application for permission to sell the racehorse Jergen, in…

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Bail Reduced Man on Assault Charge SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 6

Charged at the Newtown Police Court to-day with having, on December 24, assaulted Gregory Szarka and robbed him of £56, Cecil James O'Hara, 31, labourer,…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 7

Application was made under the Moratorium Act by Harry Young, a drapery hawker, of High-street, West Maitland, in the Small Debts Court, for time to pay a…

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Police Court Monday, January 4. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Illicit Spirits Alleged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 2

John Kempley, 37, printer, and Richard Herbert Kempley, 39, labourer, were each charged with having had in their custody at Muswellbrook, on December 31,…

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Man Recaptured Newcastle West Chase Police Use Lorry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 4

"Stop him! Stop him!" The cry, heard in Burwood-street, Newcastle, yesterday, signalled the beginning of no exciting chase in which a police constable…

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Teachers' Awards Federal Court Supported HOBART

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

The 12th annual conference of delegates from the Federated State School Teachers' Associations opened to-day, delegates being present from Victoria, New South Wales,…

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Plants Stolen and Trees Destroyed Water Board Concerned Police Informed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 4

Thefts of plants from the gardens at the "Lookout" reservoir property at New Lambton and the destruction of young trees at…

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Bush Fires in West (Continued from Page 1.) Some Good Saves Stories of Great Endurance Police Leader Cobar

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 6

Lilyvale Station, 70 miles west or Cobar, on the Wilcannia-road, was swept by fire. The owner had his sheep on one…

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Stealing Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 5

Jack Morrison (26), laborer, was charged before Mr. Stevenson, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day, with having, on December 11, broken…

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Theft of Sugar

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 2

Charged with the theft of a bag of sugar, valued at 25/, the property of D. Mitchell and Company, James Ferguson, 48, labourer, was fined £2, in default…

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