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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

3,757 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 56 of 188

Police Tactics Juryman's Statement "Struck Blow on Neck" Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 13

A peculiar incident occurred at the Quarter Sessions to-day daring the hearing of a case against two men charged with housebreaking…

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Took Lenient View Court and Destitute Man SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 8

The Magistrate at the Hornsby Police Court to-day took a lenient view of the ease of Henry Curtis. 27, who was charged with vagrancy. Curtis was found…

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Rufus Nayor Application to Court Counsel's Address Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 9

The whole of to-day's proceedings in the Equity Court in the case in which Rufus Theodore Naylor is applying for a continuation of the injunction restraining…

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David Blake Former Owner Buys Wreck Court Opens Inquiry Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 8

Mr. A. Murrell, former owner of the coaster David Blake, which was handed over to the underwriters after going aground near Tathra, purchased the wreck…

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"Never More Loyal" Police in New South Wales Tributes at Annual Dinner Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 8

"When the history of the Wagga murder is written it will rank as second to none in the criminal history of the world," said the Metropolitan…

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Federal Basic Wage Slight Increase Fixed on New Basis 10 Per Cent, Cut Deleted Court's Mathematics Puzzle Union Leaders MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1934 · page 7

After weeks of deliberation the Federal Arbitration Court to-day delivered judgement in the application by the unions for a rescission of the 10 per cent. emergency cut in wages. The Court, by majority judgement, Chief Judge Dethridge…

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Kurri Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 11

Mr. E. A. Mahoney, P.M., presided at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday. Albert Edward Crawford was fined 20/, with 8/ costs, for having used indecent…

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Theft Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 13

On the application of the police, John Norman Medcalf, 23, motor driver, who was charged at West Maitland Police Court to-day with…

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Letters to Court Attempt to Influence Ignored by Magistrate Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 10

Attempts to influence his decision were mentioned at the Redfern Police Court to-day by Mr. Williams, S.M., when William Bagwell, 38, was charged with…

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Show Promoter Remand on Stealing Charge SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 10

Alleged to have stolen slag matte valued at £1000 from Mount Coolon Goldmines, Queensland, George Reece, 26, show promoter, was remanded at the Central Police…

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Police Court Wednesday, April 18. (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Steel-street Raid

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 4

Sequel to the raid by a squad of police on premises in Steel-street, Newcastle West, on Tuesday morning, was the appearance of 14 Chinese and five white…

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Police Seek Motorist Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 15

Police are searching for the motorist who is alleged to have accidentally struck Alfred Edwin .Jobson about 7 o'clock in Petersham on Saturday night, after…

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Police Chief's Illness SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 10

It was reported to-day that the condition of the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs) who became ill in his office at Police Headquarters…

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£1000 CLAIMED Mayfield Motor Accident Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 11

Before Mr. Acting-Justice Markell and a jury of four, at the Maitland Circuit Count, which was opened at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday, Mrs…

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Street Bettor Police Power of Search Conference Resolution Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 14

A resolution advocating the provision of power for police officers to search persons suspected of starting-price betting was carried at the Police Association…

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"Shoot Himself" Husband's Alleged Threat Divorce Court Story Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 10

Petitioning for a judicial separation from her husband, Ernest Edward Winder, on the ground of his alleged adultery with Mrs. Marjorie Shields, at Muswellbrook,…

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SPENT £400,000 to Keep Out of Gaol, But in Vain! Scotland Yard Will Have Its Man New York

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 1

A deportation order that will send John Factor back to London to stand his trial for swindles involving £2,000,000 will be signed…

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No Work on Sundays Union Applies to Court Kembla Steelworks Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 11

The hearing of the applications by the Australian Iron and Steel Ltd., and the Federated Ironworkers'…

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Court's Problem in Naylor Case Seeks Definition of Punter Business, Trade, Hobby or Occupation? Wordy Legal Barrage Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 April 1934 · page 11

Is the happy Australian practice of punting a trade, an occupation, a business, or just a hobby?…

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In The Courts Bicycle Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 April 1934 · page 8

Vincent Henry Ford (28), painter, and Mervyn Davies Ford (18), laborer, were fined £3, with 10s costs each, at Newcastle Police Court to-day…

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