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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

3,757 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 188

Economic Levels Union Advocate's Case to Court Subsidies and Wages Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 12 March 1934 · page 8

Provision of subsidies for wheat farmers was an admission by the Government that primary producers must be…

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Paris Riots Commission of Inquiry Plot Story Denied Reason for Police Chief's Dismissal (Australian Press Association.) PARIS, March 11

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 March 1934 · page 7

"I categorically deny M. Chiappe's 'thriller'," exclaimed the former Minister for the Interior (M. Frot), giving evidence before the Commission inquiring…

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Domain Clash Police Break Up Protest Meeting 25 Persons Arrested Wild Melee Around Platform; Batons and Fists Used Freely SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 March 1934 · page 7

Four persons, including two Women, were badly injured and several others suffered minor injuries in the Domain this afternoon when police, with batons arid handcuffs as weapons, broke up a meeting called to protest against the State…

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Maitland District West Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 9

Six cases in respect to motor traffic breaches were heard before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday…

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Theft of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 2

Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen, at Waratah, on March 9, a quantity of coal valued at 1/. the property of the Railway Commissioners,…

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Bigamist Sentenced Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 9

At the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, George William Henry North, 37, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for bigamy. North is a maintenance…

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Domain Clash 21 Persons Appear in Court Complaints Against Police Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 7

The sequel to the disturbance in the Sydney Domain yesterday was the appearance of 17 men and four women at the Central Police Court to-day on various…

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Youth Rings the Changes Admits Theft From Storekeeper

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 11

A youth was successful in the age old trick of "ringing the changes" at Mayfleld yesterday, according to evidence given at…

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Police Court Monday, March 12 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 2

Samuel Walls, 54, labourer, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment for drunkenness…

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Man Sent to Gaol for 18 Months Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 10

Newton Roy Hartman (24), who was convicted at the Central Criminal Court yesterday of having maliciously wounded a young woman by…

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Bank Defrauded Two Years' Gaol for Bookmaker Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 8

Sentencing George William Corfield, 42, bookmaker, at the Quarter Sessions to-day to two years imprisonment for theft from the E.S…

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Industrial Court Further Adjournment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 2

After evidence had been given by four witnesses, the further hearing was adjourned to March 21 of the case in which James William McIntyre, Cowper-street…

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Police Investigate Shop Robberies Newcastle Thefts

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 11

Inquiries" are being made by Newcastle police into three shop robberies which have been committed since Saturday…

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Caledon Bay Murder Mission Party Holds Suspects Constable's Death Canberra

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 7

Having achieved complete success the missionary party under Rev, H. E. Warren will leave Caledon Bay…

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Rugby League Court Case Costs Awaiting Cessnock's Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 11

In a letter, read last night at the Newcastle Rugby League meeting, the League's solicitors, Messrs. Sparke and Helmore, informed delegates that the…

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Police Bodyguard, Night and Day Frozen Beauty of Pine Forest

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 12

ONE OF THE WORLD'S most closely-guarded men. John Factor, Chicago speculator, who is watched like this, night and lay, for two reasons—one. his importance as complaining witness against two men arrrested on charges of kidnapping him, and be other, the demand of the British Crown that he be guarded lest he flee. He is wanted in England on charges of promoling a slock swindle…

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Spain on Strike Isolated Acts of Violence Police Sell Papers Madrid

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 1

Some violent incidents occurred in different parts of Spain, in connection with the general strike…

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Claim for £10,000 Against Insurance Company Sequel to Court Case Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 7

Alleging malicious prosecution against the Commonwealth Life Assurance Society Ltd., Leslie Roy Mattinson…

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Court Has Not Made Up Its Mind Judge and Mr. Crofts Wage Cut Inquiry Arbitration Hearing Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 March 1934 · page 7

"The Court has made up its mind neither one way nor the other," Chief Judge Dethridge emphatically told Mr. C…

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Four Years' Gaol S.A. Solicitor Sentenced ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1934 · page 8

Found guilty of having fraudulently converted £3525, the property of two clients, to his own use, John McGee, a solicitor, was sentenced to-day to four years'…

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