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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

4,218 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 211

Theft of Plants and Trees

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 4

The Chief Engineer of the Hunter District Water and Sewerage Board (Mr. J. M. C. Corlette) mentioned in a report presented at the meeting of the Water Board…

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Six Months' Gaol Woman Pickpocket SYDNEY

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

Sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed on Lillian Jones, 34, when she was convicted at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having…

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Missing Leather Constable on Theft Charge WINDSOR

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

On a charge of stealing leather valued at £5, the property of Francis Anshaw, at Windsor, on October 29, Walter Stanley Hitchcock, 31, a member of the New…

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Police Court Tuesday, January 5. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Unlicensed Revolver

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

Charged with having had a revolver in his possession on December 28 without being the holder of a licence, Harry Ernest Welsh, 23, fish cleaner, was bound over for…

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Police Investigate Fire Sydney

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

A fire which almost completely destroyed a six-roomed weatherboard cottage in Jersey-avenue, Penshurst, last night, is being investigated by the…

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District Court Reserved Decisions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 7

At the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday, the Registrar (Mr. M. J. D. Austin) read two reserved decisions by Judge Sheridan in respect to cases heard before…

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Licensing Court Hotel Transfers

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

An application by William McIntyre Montgomery, Church-street, Newcastle, for the transfer of the licence of the Clarendon Hotel, Hunter-street,…

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"Must Be Paid" £50 Compensation Order Magistrate to Young Woman Sydney

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

"If that £50 is not paid you are going to Long Bay. There is going to be trouble, for there is an alternative of 200 days' hard labour. You are not talking…

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Fascist Badge Alleged Theft From Consul Men Remanded at Ingham Ingham

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

At the Police Court to-day, Frank Carmagnola and Mario Tardiam were charged with having, on December 26, assaulted the Italian Consul, Count Mario Melano,…

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Unlicensed Weapons Police Chief's Concern SYDNEY

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

For having had an unlicensed revolver in his possession, Edward Conquit appeared at the North Sydney Police Court to-day, and was ordered by Mr. Cohen…

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Small Debts Court Claimant Non-suited

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

A claim for £46/10/ for board in respect of defendant's son, was made by Edith May Forbes, Christoe-street, Waratah, against Frederick Norman Bowen,…

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Arrived Late at Court Trouble Over Straying Horse

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 6

Because he allowed a horse to stray on National Park on December 6, A. Wallace, of Hanbury-street, Mayfield, was fined ,£2, with 8s costs…

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Police Fire Shots in Busy Street Fugitives Escape Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 5

In a 70-mile-an-hour chase along King-street Newtown, this afternoon the police fired four shots at two youths on stolen motor cycles. No one…

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Police Praised Hard Task in New Guinea Administrator Comes South Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 4

Work done by the small band of police in New Guinea was praised by the Administrator of Papua, Sir Hubert Murray, who arrived aboard the Macdhui…

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Horse Stealing Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 5

Alfred Elphan Coles and Arthur Edward Delaney, two Mayfield residents, were, before Mr. Sutherland, P.M., at Paterson Police Court this…

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Kurri Police Court Family Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 9

Mr. F. D. H. Sutherland, P.M., presided at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday. Clifford William Holmes, of the Soldiers'…

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Gaol for Reichstag Member

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 8

Berlin, January 5.—Deputy Walter-frank, a Communist member of the Reichstag, has been sentenced to 13 weeks' imprisonment for a speech in the Ruhr, inciting…

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Assaulted Police

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 5

James Charles Richardson, 35, was charged at Wallsend Police Court to-day with having been drunk in Tyrrell-street, Wallsend, on December 18,…

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Constable Sent to Gaol Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 4

The announcement by Mr. Woods, P.M., at the Windsor Court-house last night, that he intended to convict Constable Walter Stanley Hitchcock…

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Police Court Wednesday, January 6. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Labourer Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 11

Jack Morrison, 20, labourer, was remanded until January 12, on a charge of having broken and entered the dwelling house of Mary Ann Henderson, 22…

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