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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

4,218 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 33 of 211

Swansea the Police Reserve

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 8

At a public meeting of residents, held in the Central Hall, the offer of the Chief Secretary (Mr. M. Gosling), received through Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., to make…

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Stole Car Young Men Sent to Gaol GRAFTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 3

John Charles Collins, 21, alias Jack Bush, alias John Chalmers, who, with William George Smith, 18, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen a…

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Murder Charge Japanese Seaman Acquitted PERTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 3

Toshio Horikawa, a young seaman from the Japanese steamer, Hayo Maru, which was recently stranded at Bunbury, was acquitted to-day in the Supreme Court…

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Brisbane Murder Accused Men for Trial BRISBANE

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

Frederick Lewis, 24, and John Wilson appeared at the Police Court to-day, charged with the wilful murder of Lillian Maud Stephens at Dutton Park on the…

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Foolish Theft Says S.m. Claimed a Horse From Pound Carpenter's Lapse

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 7

Horse stealing and horse dealing were mentioned at Newcastle Police Court to-day, when John Gibson Elias, 35, a carpenter…

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Chittagong Rioters Sentenced Long Trial Ends the Massacre That Failed "Life Terms Calcutta

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 8

The miraculous escape of hundreds of European men, women and children from being massacred by…

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Small Debts Court Verdicts for Plaintiff

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 8

A verdict for the amount claimed, with 13/6 costs, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the cause in which Cyril Clyde Bailey, Cessnock, sued G. Barrick,…

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Hostile Villagers Police Station Attacked CALCUTTA, March 1

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 3

The growing lawlessness in the provinces of Bihar and Orissa due to Congress propaganda was exemplified yesterday, when, for the third time within a…

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Typist Murdered Police Directed to Body PARIS, February 29

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 3

Little importance was attached to the absence from home of a typist, Suzanne Meiyer, till the police received through the post a crude plan of the cemetery of…

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Mrs. Clegg's Land Court Grants Injunction SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 5

Mr. Justice Long-Innes, in the Equity Court to-day, granted Mrs. Elizabeth Clegg, mother of William Carnegie Clegg, an injunction restraining the…

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MR. J. G. LATHAM Unusual Ceremony in Court MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 4

Before departing to-day for the Geneva Conference, the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. J. G. Latham) performed an unusual ceremony in the High Court…

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S.m. Dismissed Prosecution Post-office Agent Before Court Accounts Trouble

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 7

Charging him with having fraudulently converted £44 1s 10d to his own use, the P.M.G.'s Department proceeded against…

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Attempt to Escape Two Prisoners Remanded Method Revealed in Court Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 March 1932 · page 7

An attempt to escape from Fremantle Gaol caused the appearance in the Criminal Court to-day of George McKellar Smith and Reuben Dixon, both of whom…

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Police Court Wednesday, March 2. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Alleged Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 13

On three charges of theft, John Kelly, 30, labourer, was remanded to March 9. Bail was fixed at £40. One charge states that at Newcastle, on…

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Alleged Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 13

An adjournment for one week was granted in the case in which Lily Caroline Perry, Scott-street, Carrington, proceeded against Henry Perry, Cleary-street,…

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Theft of Horse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 13

On a charge of having stolen, at New Lambton, on January 21, a gelding, valued at £20, the property of Henry John Sketchley, John Gibson Elias, 35,…

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Postal Agent Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 13

On a charge of having fraudulently converted to his own use £44/1/10, belonging to the Commonwealth, Allan G. M. Burns, of the Postmaster-General's Department,…

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Alleged Lottery Theft Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 7

In the Central Police Court to-day, Gordon Hector Swain 26, was committed for trial on a charge of stealing £316, the property of the State Lottery…

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Girl Charged Consorting With Criminals SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 8

Charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having habitually consorted with reputed criminals. Nellie Cameron, 21, asked for an adjournment for 21 days,…

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Police Union Condemned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1932 · page 6

The proposed formation of a union in the police force of New South Wales was strongly condemned by the Chief Commissioner of Police of Victoria…

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