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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

4,218 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 211

Theft at Hospital Wallsend Contribution Box

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 4

Wallsend police have had added to their part in investigating clues regarding the attack on the Secretary of Wallsend Mining District Hospital (Mr. R. Cameron),…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 2

Gordon Seaton Luscombe, licensee of the Royal Standard Hotel, was granted booth licences for the Newcastle Show from February 23 to 27…

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Murder Charge Young Woman Committed SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 5

Nyngan Vera Williams. 23, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered her infant child, at Hartwood station near Nymagee. A…

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Woman Shot Country Youth on Trial Sentenced to Death Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 5

Charged with the murder of Mrs. Edna Clarice Cadd, 32, on December 6, Arthur Thomas James, 17, appeared in the Criminal Court to-day…

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Irish Murder Quarrel Before Shooting DUBLIN, February 15

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 5

Evidence that a quarrel preceded the shooting of Patrick Reynolds and Detective McGeehan was given when Joseph Leddy was charged with the murder at…

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Rode in Coffin Box of Train Clever Gaol Escapee Brisibane

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 5

Ernest Albert Richards, who made an amazing clever escape from the Yatala Prison (South Australia), on New Years' Day,…

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Two Dead in Bed Murder and Suicide MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 5

The Coroner (Mr. Grant) found to-day that David Anderson McKenzie. 56, retired merchant, murdered his wife. Margaret Alexandra McKenzie, 53, at their…

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Small Debts Court Merchant's Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 2

A verdict for the amount claimed, with 16/ costs, was returned in favour of plaintiff in the case in which David Cohen and Co., Ltd., sued Sidney John Van…

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Broadmeadow Post Office Ransacked Last Night Theft of Parcels Youthful Amateurs Are Blamed Office ""Wreck"

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 1

Thieves broke into the Broadmeadow Post Office last night. ransacked it, futilely meddled with the door of the strongroom, in which…

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Dartmoor Trials Special Court in Prison LONDON, February 15

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 6

The "Daily Telegraph" understands that convicts accused of complicity in the Dartmoor mutiny will probably be dealt with in an improvised Police Court within…

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Natives Killed Police Fire on Crowd Trouble in East Bengal (Australian Press Association.) CALCUTTA, February 15

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 5

Three natives were killed and 32 wounded and five constables were seriously hurt when the police fired on a crowd of 3000 peasants at Hashnabad, a…

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Dead in Indian Riots Native Leaders Among Slain Police and Many Officials Were Injured Charge Into Mob Calcutta

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 February 1932 · page 6

In a furious battle between the police and a violent mob of Congress adherents, at Tarpur, in the Monghur district of Bahar, eight rioters were shot dead…

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Kurri Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1932 · page 9

Mr. F. D. H. Sutherland. P.M., presided at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday. Edward Aubin, 24, of Weston, was fined…

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Theft of Timber

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1932 · page 4

Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen a piece of timber, valued at 7/6, the property of W. S. Bacon and Co., Ltd., at Islington, on February 16, James…

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Alleged Theft of Car Grafton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1932 · page 5

A motor-car, owned by M. R. Simons, of South Grafton, which was stolen from the crowded Prince-street, Grafton, on Friday night, has been found at a…

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Mail Theft Jewellery Missing SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1932 · page 9

The police are now investigating the disappearance of £20 worth of jewellery from the mails between Kyogle and Sydney. The jewellery was sent last week…

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Clergyman Charged Indecency Alleged MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1932 · page 5

A minister of religion stood in the dock in the Criminal Court to-day to answer two serious charges in which a girl of 13 years was the principal witness for the…

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Police Court Wednesday, February 17. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Act of Indecency

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1932 · page 4

Thomas Moray, 44. cook, was fined 10/, in default 24 hours' imprisonment, for having committed an offence against decency in Watt-street on February 16…

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"Exclusive Story" Yatala Prison Escapee Pressmen Bid in Gaol Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 February 1932 · page 5

An unusual scene wan witnessed at the City Watchhouse to-day, when Ernest Richards, the Yatala Prison escapee, negotiated with representatives of the…

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Tramway Unions Funds Clerk Charged with Embezzlement Treasurer's Evidence Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 February 1932 · page 7

Further evidence was given before Mr. Gibson, S.M., at the Central Court to-day in the case of Christian Theodore Brandt, 39, clerk, who is charge…

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