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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1932

4,218 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 211

Smart Arrests Grafton Police Act Swiftly Stolen Car Recovered Grafton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 6

Following information that the garages at the Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay, had been broken into and a sedan car containing two suitcases of samples…

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Gun Duel Victim Wife Unable to Give Evidence Carried From Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 January 1932 · page 5

Two revolvers, a blood-stained shirt, and other gruesome exhibits provided a thrill for…

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Funeral Pyre Victim of Murder Hindu Before Court Lismore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 5

Nearly 1000 people, mostly sightseers, stood round a blazing funeral pyre at Lismore Cemetery to-day, when the body of Rham Chund, victim of the murder…

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Children's Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 9

Pleading "Not guilty," and reserving his defence, Joseph Noel Ivor Waldron. 23, labourer, was committed for trial at Newcastle Sessions on February 1, on a charge…

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Police Court Monday, January 11. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) Resisted Arrest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 9

About 10.30 p.m. on Saturday, Leslie Fulford, 20, labourer, with three other men, was under the influence of liquor in Brown-street, Newcastle. Told by…

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Newcastle Police Changes Important Transfers

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 5

Important transfers in the police force were announced at Newcastlo headquarters this afternoon. Inspector Brodie is to be transferred to the metropolitan district…

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Man Committed Intent to Murder Charge Affray at Erskineville Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 5

An affray at Erskineville on January 3, when several shots were fired at Ernest Alfred Palmer, resulted in William O'Loughlin, 24, being committed for trial…

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W.A. TRAGEDY Man on Murder Trial Farmer Shot in Head Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 5

The sensational disclosures associated with the Coroner's inquiry at Morowa early in December, into the death of Linton Leigh Lethlean, a farmer of Morowa,…

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Case of Suicide Bones at Bungendore Conclusion of Police Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 7

After exhaustive investigations into the circumstances surrounding the finding of the charred bones of Sidney Morrison at Bungendore on November 19, the police…

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Gun Duel Story At Inquest Coroner's Comment White for Trial on Murder Charge SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 6

The story of the shooting affray in a busy Darlinghurst street recently, when Frederick Wallace Roberta was shot dead, was told at the inquest held into Roberts's…

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Prisoner Escapes Bomb in Police Station Riot at Pine Creek Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 5

The Communistic section of the unemployed is blamed for the attack on the Pine Creek Police Station in Northern Territory, according to official…

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Sued for Fees in Court Newcastle Hospital Takes Action First Cases Heard

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1932 · page 1

Newcastle Hospital Instituted proceedings at Newcastle Small Debts Court to-day to recover fees owing to them from patients Premier Club swimmers engaged in a practice match. S. Field makes an attempt at goal…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 7

Messrs. G. W. Wheeler and S. Snape, Js.P., occupied the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, morning. George Bambach was fined £1, with 8/…

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Gas-meter Theft Man Surrenders to Police SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 6

After stealing 3/11 from the gas meter at the house where he and his wife and child boarded, Edgeworth Upjohn, 25, yesterday surrendered himself to the police,…

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Police Clues Are Strong Yagoona Railway Station Murder Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 5

Apart from the description of the gunman, the strongest clue the police have in the Yagoona murder is probably the nickel-plated bullet which…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 9

Alton James Cusick, of the Gosford Hotel, Gosford, was granted booth licences for the Newcastle races on Saturday. Michael Tobin was granted permission…

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Wild Fight in Gaol Warders Hurt Bathurst

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 1

Two warders intervened in a fight at the Bathurst Gaol yesterday. One is in hospital with a broken nose…

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Tampered with Light Meter "Dangerous," Says Magistrate City Prosecution

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 5

For having tampered with an electric light motor, so that it did not register. J. Davis, of Moira-street. Adamstown, appeared before Mr. Steven…

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Extra Police Wanted Cessnock Request

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 2

On the motion of Alderman G. Lowe an application is to be made to the chief Secretary by Cessnock Municipal Council for a permanent…

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Italian Consul "We Will Get You" Ingham Assault Case Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1932 · page 6

Great interest was taken in a case in the Ingham Police Court to-day, when Frank Carmagnola and Mario Tardini were charged with having assaulted the…

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