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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

3,757 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 188

Magistrate's Warning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 10

Imposing fines of 10/, with costs, on several defendants at the Police Court yesterday on charges of having carried passengers on motor-cycles on which…

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Police Court Thursday, April 26 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Riotous Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 14

Ejected from a shop in Perkin-street, Newcastle, about 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday, George Stedman, 37, labourer, fought with the proprietor. Brought before the Court,…

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Selling Tickets for Raffles Illegal Without Permission Magistrate's Warning

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 8

Remarks applicable to many private vendors of tickets in raffles in Newcastle district were made at Newcastle Summons…

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Police Tennis Club Dance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 16

A happy dance was held in the supper room of the Town Hall last night. It was organised by the Police Tennis Club to assist with their funds. Officials of the…

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Maitland Court Sympathy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 10

Before the business of the Maitland Circuit Court was resumed at the East, Maitland Courthouse yesterday morning, sympathetic reference was made to the…

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Fracas at Dance Ex-pugilist Uses His Fists Fined for Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 7

James Coffee, ex-pugilist, employed to keep order at a Trades Hall dance, was fined to-day, for having struck…

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Schoolgirl Life Savers Police Tennis Club Dance

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 12

STUDENTS FROM THE CENTRAL DOMESTIC SCIENCE SCHOOL were examined at the Ocean Baths yesterday for their life-saving bronze medallions. These girls are seen doing one of the land exercises. SOFTLY dinging chiffon, in golden…

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"Devil a Saint Would Be" Magistrate and the Old Story Man and His Wife

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 8

"The devil is sick—the devil a saint would be." "The devil is well—the devil a saint is hel"…

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Adelaide "Diggers" Cabinet Stops Police Action ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 11

Police last night conducted a raid on the Returned Soldiers' Club in Angus-street, end took the names of 46 men, who were alleged to be consuming liquor. A…

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A Superfluous Door Always "Open House" at Police Station

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 6

Just a massive piece of timber, fitted with hinges and a stout lock. To most people it diflers little from any other door,…

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Fierce Fighting Mill Strikers and Police CALCUTTA, April 25

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 11

A grave situation is developing in Bombay, where fierce fighting between cotton-mill strikers and the police followed the formers' defiance of orders banning…

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Second Claim Fails Against Sydney "Bulletin" Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 13

The second claim for alleged libel against the Sydney "Bulletin" was concluded before Mr. Acting Justice Markell and a jury of four at the Maitland Circuit Court…

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Extremely Rare Dermatitis from Wheat Compensation Court Case Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 10

The statement that the disease was so rare that he had not seen a similar case in 24 years, was made by Dr. Molesworth, giving evidence in a case before…

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5000 POLICE Amazing Hunt for Bandit 'Planes and Infantry Chicago, April 25

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 11

The Federal Government to-day mobilised 5000 heavily-armed police, 300 infantrymen, and a fleet of aeroplanes, and has organised an elaborate radio…

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44-Hour Week Electrical Trades Union Application to Court Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 12

Representing the Electrical Trades Union, Mr. P. J. Sheehan, to-day applied to the Federal Arbitration Court for an extension of the 44-hour week granted by the…

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Defendant Too Old to Go to Court Man of 92 Sued for Slander Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 7

Alleging slander against George Edwards, who Is 92 years of age, Walter Bradley and his wife. Elizabeth Bradley to-day sought…

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Irish Leader Objects to Police Guards He Says They Are Only Spies Mr. Cosgrave's Bitter Attack in Dail Can't Escape Them Dublin

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 April 1934 · page 1

If there is any attempt on my life or liberty it will come from the Government benches," declared the…

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Morpeth Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 11

At the Morpeth Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. E. A. Mahoney, P.M., a charge of having wilfully obstructed a motor-car on the Newcastle-Maitland road,…

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Police Court Friday, April 27 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Theft of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 3

Pleading "Guilty" to the theft at Mayfield on April 26. of 10cwt of coal, valued at 15/, the property of the Railway Commissioners, Thomas Watley, 20, a…

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Released From Gaol To-day Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 8

Neville Harris, who, in 1926, with William Brauner was sentenced to 10 years' hard labor for offences against a girl at Bond Junction was…

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