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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

3,757 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 28 of 188

Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 11

James Johnson Neilson, of Newcastle was charged before Messrs. W. J. Ryau and A. W. Johns, at the Kurri Kurri Police Court, yesterday, with having…

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A Big Murder Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 3

Many years have elapsed since a criminal trial aroused such intense interest in Brisbane as that which concluded in a dramatic double verdict of guilty late on…

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Exhibits Missing Cattle Stealing Charge Fails GRAFTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 9

At the Lawrence Police Court Mr. S. J. Bliss, P.M., dismissed a charge of cattle-stealing against Albert Bruce Campbell…

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Bankruptcy Court

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 10

Robert Horace Maskey, of Arthur- street, Mayfield, laborer, was publicly examined at Newcastle Bankruptcy Court to-day…

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Murder Victim's Clever Dogs Wagga

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 7

Dog lovers throughout the district have greatly admired the Wagga murder victim's dogs, and have visited the police station to…

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Uncertain Who He Is Man Charged with Bigamy Identity Tangle Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 7

A remarkable statement was made by John Henry Sheen, or Halpin, a railway pensioner, from the dock at…

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Nott's Fate Puzzles Police Faced Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 7

In a surprisingly short space of time the mystery of the disappearance and death of George Nott in the Pilliga…

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Woman with a Gun Strange Court Story Brisbane

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 7

Remarkable allegations of a woman who, becoming tired of the man with Whom she was living, had plotted with her husband to kill him,. were…

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Maitland District West Maitland Chamber of Commerce Nearer Court Registrar

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 11

At a meeting of the Maitland and District Chamber of Commerce, presided over by Mr. F. J. Allsop, Mr. J. H. F. Waller raised the question of the inconvenience…

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Fate of Agent Rain Hampers Police Search for Bullet Burren Junction

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 9

Cars having been found useless in the muddy country, the police, who are investigating the disappearance of George Nott, stock and station agent, of…

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Pawned T.p. Bicycles Ambulance Driver's Fraud Court Gives Him Chance

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 8

Oliver Clarence Watkins, 32, ambulance-driver, appeared at Newcastle Police Court to-day on three charges of having obtained…

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Kalgoorlie Riots Damage Assessed at £70,000 Evidence in Court Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 9

The first really reliable estimate of the damage caused during the fighting between Britishers and foreigners on the goldfields a few weeks ago was given to-day…

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Skill or Hard Work? Question Raised in Court Brickmakers' State Award Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 17

In hearing appeals against the Brick-makers and Assistants (State) award to. day, Mr. Justice Browne. President of the Industrial Commission, stated that…

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Alleged Claim That Nott Was Killed & Burned Woman Tells An Amazing Story Shot with His Own Rifle Is View Held by Police Charred Bones and Teeth Found in Ashes of Fire Woman's Alleged Attempt to Commit Suicide Bugalb One Station (Near Pilliga)

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 February 1934 · page 7

A woman whose age is given at about 45, is alleged to have made a statement to another woman early one morning in a town some distance from Pilliga, that on last Wednesday week, she had murdered George Washington Nott, 45, the missing Pilliga stock and station agent, and put his car in the Namoi River…

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Police Court Friday, February 23 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Illegal Betting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 6

For having committed a breach of the Totalisator Act at New Lambton, on February 21, John Fuller, 42, labourer, was fined £20, with 16/10 costs, in…

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99 Years' Gaol Kidnappers of John Factor CHICAGO, February 22

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 9

The jury in the second trial of Roger Touhy and his two henchmen, on a charge of kidnapping John Factor, found all three guilty,…

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Man Who Coined the Word "Anzac" Is Dead Weeping Gangster Lost Courage When Sentenced Chicago

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 1

Roger Tuohy, one of A1 Capone's bitterest rivals in the heyday of gangster prosperity, who has been sentenced to 99 years' imprisonment…

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Witnesses Tell of Man in Waggon Wagga Murder Inquiry Human Glove Mystery Crown Evidence Wagga

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 3

"On December 15 Morey said he was 'broke,' but four days later he paid for some drinks, and said he had…

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Mystery Deepens Murder of French Judge Son's Threat Government Offers Record Reward (Australian Press Association.) PARIS, February 23

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 9

The mystery surrounding the murder of Judge Albert Prince yesterday took a new turn to-day when eyewitnesses declared that they saw Prince…

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Missing Agent Killed and Burned Sensational Story Woman Under Police Guard Burren Junction

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 9

Sensational allegations that the missing Pilliga stock and station agent, George Nott, 45, who had been missing for over a week, had been…

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