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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1933

4,052 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 203

Thief Sentenced "Nearly Put Father in Gaol" SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 7

At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Alexander Jones 25, warehouseman, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for theft. Judge Edwards told the prisoner…

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Sentenced for Triple Murder Teacher Confessed Grand Rapids (Michigan)

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 1

Within 12 hours of his arrest for a triple murder, Henry Bedford, the middle-aged principal of a high school, confessed to the…

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Assault Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 3

On a charge of having assaulted Jemima Watson at Newcastle yesterday, William John Watson (31), laborer, was remanded to Monday, by…

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Story of Misfortune Moratorium Court Case Magistrate's Regret Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 10

An extraordinary story of misfortune was told to Mr. McMahon, S.M. in the Moratorium Court to-day, by William John Moss, a furnaceman, when William…

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Warehouse Robbery Young Men Charged SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 7

A few hours after a robbery from the warehouse of John Vickers and Company Limited, to-night, detectives arrested two young men near the Central railway…

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Police Court Friday, April 7 (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Discharged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 15

A charge against Dennis O'Regan, 48, that he was idle and disorderly at Waratah on April 6, was dismissed. Leslie Alfred Pickett, 31, labourer, who…

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Constable Injured Man on Assault Charge SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 7

On a charge of having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm on Constable Coleman, at Botany, on March 24, Joseph Deegan, 47, appeared at the Redfern Police…

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Murder of Woman Sheedy Found Guilty MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 10

The jury at the Ballarat Supreme Court to-day found Patrick Sheedy guilty of having murdered Mrs. Winifred Naomi Brooks in a bedroom of an hotel in…

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Body Exhumed Man on Murder Charge MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 7

At the City Court to-day, John Mann 42, crane-driver, of Yallourn, was remanded until April 13 on a charge of having murdered Elsie Gladys Moore, 36,…

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Man's Death Police Allegations Four Persons Mentioned Warracknabeal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 9

At the inquest into the death of Herbert George Toner, 36, labourer, of Warracknabeal, to-day, Detective O'Keefe alleged that Toner's wife, James Henry…

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Workers' Court Newcastle Sitting Ends Three Awards Made

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 14

The Workers' Compensation Commission (Judge Perdriau, Chairman, and Commissioners T. R. Routley and G. Halliday, with Dr. Mackay as Medical Referee)…

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Lived in Railway Tunnel Strange Abode Found by Police Pitch Darkness Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 8

Searching in the incompleted city railway tunnel at Circular Quay for a mystery man who was seen lurking in the shadows,…

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Died in Cell Man on Murder Charge Heart Failure Tragic Sequel to Shooting of Wife MUNDUBBERA (Qld.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 9

Within a short time of his arrest on a charge of having murdered his wife, who had been found shot dead, Heinrich Gustav Carl Klippelt, 50, was found dead in…

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Parentage of Child Two Men Make Claim Equity Court Application Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 April 1933 · page 10

Richard Ryan, of Gladesville, who gave his age as 29, and Frederick Renee Livett were the principal witnesses before Mr. Justice Long Innes in the Equity Court…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 4

Before Mr. C. W. Naylor, J. P., at Newcastle Police Court on Saturday Frederick Victor Barnes, 39, labourer, appeared on five charges of having goods…

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Fined for Theft of Oilskin "Wife 'Phoned Police"

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 7

Convicted on a charge of having stolen an oilskin coat, valued at 10s, the property of Sidney Austin Worth, on or about March 26, William John…

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Residential Thefts Four Men Charged Smart Police Work Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 6

Several smart arrests were made by detectives last night, following many thefts from a leading city residential. Inspector Prior, Chief of the C.I.D., with Detective…

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Wife Used Iron Bar Husband Paid for Assault Story in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 1

His head swathed in bandages, William John Watson, 31, laborer, appeared at the Newcastle Police Court to-day, in answer to…

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Belmont Robbery Theft from Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 4

Thieves who broke into the Hotel Gunyah, Belmont, about 3 a.m. yesterday, missed a fairly large sum of money left in a cash register. Indications are…

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Three Months' Gaol For Indecency

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 April 1933 · page 7

Convicted on a charge of having committed an act of indecency within view of persons passing in Cleary-street, Hamilton, on April 1, Peter…

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