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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

3,757 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 188

Police Court Wednesday, March 14 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1934 · page 4

William Gamble, 43, mechanic, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment for drunkenness…

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Police Association Officials Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 March 1934 · page 16

The ballot for the positions of president and vice-president of the C.I.B. branch of the Police Association resulted to-day in the election of…

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Open Verdict in Fire Inquiry Man's Delusions Over Police

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 March 1934 · page 15

The story of a man who believed the police were searching for him and trying to shoot him, was told at a fire inquiry at…

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Award Variations Applications in Newcastle Conciliation Court Sits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1934 · page 5

The State Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. M. Henwood) was occupied at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday with several matters affecting northern unions…

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Judgement To-day Mr. Willis's Appeal to Full Court SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1934 · page 7

Reserved judgement will be delivered to-morrow of the appeal of Albert Charles Willis, a former. Agent-General, against the verdict of the jury in the case in…

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Willis Granted New Trial Bulli Election Fight to Be Revived Application for Stay Refused by Court Interpretation of Alp. Rules Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 March 1934 · page 13

The Full Court, by a majority (the Chief Justice dissentting), in a reserve judgment to-day, granted Albert Charles Willis's application for a new trial against the jury's verdict in favor of John Thomas Lang. leader of the Opposition, in Willis's…

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Theft of Cornet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 6

Patrick Burns (37), labourer, was charged with having stolen a cornet, of which he had been given possession as a member of the band at Gunnedah…

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Precautions Against Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 8

The Commissioner of Police said yesterday that a large number of thefts now being reported to the police were of bicycles left indiscriminately about the…

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Theft of Oysters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 6

Stanley Wanless (20), labourer, convicted of having stolen oysters from Crown lands, was fined £3, in default three days' imprisonment. Particulars of the offence…

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Police Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 6

The Home Secretary and the Police Union arc once again at issue. Mr. Hanlon is a Minister who believes in upholding the dignity of his office, and Mr. H…

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Two Brothers Sentenced for Receiving SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 11

At the Quarter Sessions to-day two brothers, William Gareth Handley, 25, and Stanley Arthur Handley, were sentenced for receiving, the former to three…

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Constable Fined Assault Case at Dungog DUNGOG

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 7

At the Dungog Court Police Constable Holingshed was fined £6, and costs and fees amounting to £5/12/ were allowed against him, after he had been convicted…

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Three Months' Gaol for Youth 'Ringing the Changes'

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 9

"You have a fair history, and all for the same sort of thing," commented the magistrate (Mr. Soane, S.M.), sentencing Arthur…

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Police Court Thursday, March 15 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Drunkenness, &c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 6

James Walsh (39), labourer, was fined 2/6, or three hours' detention, for drunkenness. Reginald Chilvers (34), labourer, for…

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Three Months in Gaol Man with Jemmy Near Station

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 8

On a charge of having been found near Sandgate railway station on March 7, with intent to steal, he being a suspected person, John Hanford, 40…

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Cardiff Youth Missing Police Search

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 7

Frank Stanley Mairet, 16 years, has been missing from his home at Cardiff since Monday and the police have been asked to search for him…

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W.A. TRAGEDY Wife on Murder Charge Doctor's Evidence Case for the Defence PERTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 9

The opinion that it would not have been possible for the deceased to have fired the shots that brought about his death was expressed by Dr. D. S…

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Exodus to Darwin Caledon Bay Is Left to Itself Police and Missioners Leave Darwin

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 March 1934 · page 1

The Groote Island police garrison, and members of the Church Missionary expedition to Caledon Bay together…

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Sent to Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 13

Convicted on a charge of having been a suspected person, he was found in a place near a public resort, Sandgate railway station, on March 7, with intent to…

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Police Court Friday, March 16 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 March 1934 · page 13

Jack Davis, 40, labourer, was fined £3, in default six days' imprisonment, for having used indecent language within the hearing of persons passing in Hill-street,…

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