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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

4,052 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 203

Explosion Plot Is Charged "Plan to Tap Pipe" Allegations of Conspiracy Men Before Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 7

An alleged promise of £ 10 a month for about 18 months to blow up a petrol depot, and an alleged scheme to tap…

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Butcher Charged Wanton Driving Allegations SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 5

Charged with having caused, by wanton driving, bodily harm to William Gordon Sturman, on Pacific Highway, Roseville, on March 25, Jack Henry Drew Stevens,…

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Industrial Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 4

An adjournment until March 30 was granted in the case in which Herbert William Andrew proceeded against A. E. Jones, of Wickham, on a charge of…

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Police Court Monday, March 27. (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Illegal Betting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 4

Raymond Charles Park, 33, clerk, was fined £10, with 30/ costs, in default 23 days imprisonment, for having, on March 25, at Broadmeadow, made a bet on a…

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Settlement Out of Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 1

There was an unexpected development in the case in which William Paxton, church elder of the Four Square Gospel Church of Australia, charged Jack Hardy with having…

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Blackmail Alleged Story of Elderly Man Three Persons Charged Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 7

A remarkable allegation of blackmail was related at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day when Aldo Battesto, 31, Isabella Battesto, 24, and Lettie Watts,…

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Finished the Fight Arrested Man Returned Court Sequel

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 7

Sergeant Small, of Cessnock, interrupted an altercation between two men at Charlton-street, Cessnock, on Friday night. He arrested one, but…

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Clubs Raided Pharaoh's and Fifty Fifty Police Agent Criticised Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 8

As a sequel to the raid on the fashionable Pharaoh Club list week, Harold Conyngham McCausland, 34, Manager, and Frederick George Paul, 40, waiter, were…

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Exciting Hunt By Police For Cattle Duffers Organised Gang Broken Up Stolen Stock in Secret Gully Months of Arduous Work Rewarded "Wild West" Adventures

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 1

Police investigations into one of the most amazing cases of cattle rustling on a large scale in the history of the force have just been concluded. The story is an epic of the New South Wales…

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Death Intervened In Quarter Sessions Case At Maitland His Evidence Was Read to Jury Important Witness Problem for the Court Judge's Complaint

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 March 1933 · page 7

How death had interposed while a case was pending and had taken away an important. Crown witness, was told at…

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Seaman Sentenced to Month's Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 5

For having stolen grease guns and other articles, valued at £5 14s 6d, the property of Rosie Maria Howarth, Frank Brown, 23, seaman, was…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 7

Mr. M. C. Nott, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday morning. Rover Motors were charged with…

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East Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 7

Mr. M. J. D. Austin. J.P., presided at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday. Francis Leslie Reid, 26, and Stanley…

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Unlicensed Pistol Police Question Witness Murder Case Recalled

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 1

There was an echo of the Moxey murder case, at the Newcastle Police Court, to-day, when a witness denied that he…

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Alleged Theft of Emery Wheel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 5

At Maitland Quarter Sessions to-day, Frederick Trevellyn Hanks (34), pleaded not guilty to having stolen an emery wheel from Rathluba…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 9

Alton T. Cusick, licensee of the Hotel Gosford, was granted three booth licences for Newcastle races on April 8…

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Police Court Tuesday, March 28 (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 9

John McLoughlin, 50, labourer, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment, for having used indecent language on March 27 in Hunter-street, Newcastle…

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Alleged Theft of 62 Life Belts Two Men Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 6

On a charge of having stolen 62 life-belts, valued at £23 5s, from a ferry at North Stockton belonging to Newcastle Ferries, on March 28,…

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Small Debts Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 9

By consent, a verdict for £15, with costs 7/, was awarded Edward Taylor, who proceeded against Michael Moran. Mr. A. Johnson, who appeared for Taylor, said…

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"Sherlock" in Court Victory for Men in Blue Traffic Offence

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 March 1933 · page 6

Police v. Sherlock Holmes ... But, for once, Holmes was not to gain a victory. FOR it was not the original…

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