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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

3,757 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 59 of 188

Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 9

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday morning. Hugh Freebairn was lined 10/, with 8/…

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New Police College Equipped with Model Court Realistic Training London, April 24

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 8

The new police college at Hendon, which the Prince of Wales will open on May 31, is equipped with replicas of a metropolitan police court, and the criminal…

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Taree Magistrate Farewell by Legal Profession TAREE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 6

Mr. R. Donaldson, P.M., who has been promoted to Stipendiary Magistrate at Broken Hill, after having served as Police Magistrate for 13 months in the district…

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Police Court Tuesday, April 24. (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Fined for Betting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 9

Pleading "Guilty" to having made a bet at Islington, on April 23 on the Nursery Handicap, run at Victoria Park, in contravention of the Totalisator Act, Charles…

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Eight Years' Gaol "Iron Woman" at Trial HELSINGFORS, April 23

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 8

"Marie Louise" Martin a member of an international gang on trial for espionage, has been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment. Twenty-three of her…

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Soldiers in Police Force Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 8

The inaugural dinner of returned soldiers in the police force was held to-night. The Commissioner (Mr. W. H. Childs) said that he was proud that so many members…

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Small Debts Court Claim for Damages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 9

Harry Herbert Chadwick, Skelton-street, Hamilton, claimed from Alfred Alexander Wilson, Donald-street, Hamilton, £20, and 11/ costs for damage to a…

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Hit by Tomato Police Inspector at Wrestling BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 8

Sub-inspector McGrath stopped the wrestling match between Ton Lurich, 14.3, and Walter Browning, 14.12, in the six round at the Brisbane Stadium…

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Lysaght's Ltd. Men's Proposals Rejected Dispute to Go to Court Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 6

The State Secretary of the Ironworkers' Association (Mr. H. Denford) said to-night that the management of Lysaght's Ltd. had rejected the proposals of the…

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Daring Criminal Led Police a Wild Chase Machine-guns Employed St. Paul (Wisconsin), April 23

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 7

John Dillinger, America's most daring criminal in a generation, is being hotly pursued through the north woods of Minnesota and Wisconsin by an army of…

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Libel Claim Fails Against Sydney 'Bulletin' Second Claim for £5000 Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 9

Before Mr. Acting Justice Markell and a jury of four at the Maitland Circuit Court, at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday, the hearing was concluded of…

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Secret Discounts Indian Rubber Company Revelations in Court Official Acquitted of Fraud Charge (Australian Press Association.) CALCUTTA, April 24

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1934 · page 8

John Allen Wilson, a young Australian former Secretary and Director of the Goodrich Rubber Company of India, Limited, was acquitted at Bombay on a charge…

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Newcastle Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 6

At Newcastle Police Court yesterday, before Mr. T. A. Doolan, J.P., John Kelly, 30 seaman, was fined 10/ for drunkenness, and was remanded until…

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Motorists in Court Magistrate Tires of Repetition Suggests Changes

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 12

Tired of hearing motorists say they "didn't know their headlights were not burning," the magistrate (Mr…

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Sequel to Dance at Trades Hall Charges of Assault and Insulting Words

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 11

All was not so quiet on the Trades Hall dance front on the night of March 24, according to the stories told at Newcastle…

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Youth Hit by Car Police Make Arrest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 6

George Morris, 17, of Aberdeen, who is staying at Yorke-street, Mayfield, was knocked down in Hunter-street West, Newcastle, about 7.15 last night, by a…

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Bitter Debate Government Employment Catholics Boycotted Ulster Government Charged (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, April 24

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 7

A bitter debate developed in the Ulster Parliament when a Nationalist member (Mr. Cahir-Healy) condemned the campaign against the employment…

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Soldiers Raided Anzac Functions Interrupted Hostility to Police Adelaide

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 11

Considerable feeling has been aroused in the City by the action of the police in making a raid last night on…

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Hours of Railway Electricians Federal Court Claim Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 12

Extension to railway electricians of the 44-hour week granted by the Federal Arbitration Court to members of the Electrical Trades Union…

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'Fallen Comrades' Police Disturb Toast Anzac Dinner 36 Guests' Names Taken GRAFTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 April 1934 · page 7

While about 30 "Diggers," including Mr. A. S. Henry, M.L.A., for the Clarence, were attending the annual Anzac dinner at Copeland's Cafe at Maclean to-day, and…

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