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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

3,757 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 61 of 188

Police Find Watch

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 9

Merewether police are in possession of a woman's silver watch, with chain. It was found near Gordonavenue. The owner is asked to call…

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Coffee Convicted Heavy Costs Involved Trades Hall Assault

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

After hearing further evidence in the case in which Rees William Henry Powell, Macquarie-street, Merewether, proceeded against James Coffee, George-street,…

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"Speckled Hen" Housebreaker Sent to Gaol SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 10

Pleading "Guilty" at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day to five charges of housebreaking, Thomas Mason, 48, was sentenced by Judge Curlewis to three years'…

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Artificial Teeth Alleged Theft of 16,000 SYDNEY

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

On a charge of having broken into the warehouse of the Commonwealth Dental Supply Co. Ltd., and stolen 16,000 artificial teeth, valued at £500, Osmund…

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Bankruptcy Court Public Examinations

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

The public examination of George Pippen Whiley, Watt-street. Newcastle, was continued before the District Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. M. E. Soane). After…

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German Pirates Two Sentenced to Death Dastardly Plot Recalled Shanghai, April 27

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 9

Concluding the most protracted trial in the history of Dairen, sentences were passed this evening on the five foreigners involved in the dastardly piracy of a small…

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To Pay £500 Man's 'High-handed Outrage' Sackville North Assault Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 9

Describing the action of George Stephens. 34, in breaking down a fence on George Turnbull's property at Sackville North and assaulting him as "a…

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Conspiracy Charge Man Before Maitland Court

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 2

On the application of the police, James Arthur, who was charged at East Maitland Police Court to-day, that In June. 1033, at College View,…

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Police Help for Needy Family Subscription List Opened

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 2

A striking indication of the manner in which the police blend practical sympathy with the exercise of their official…

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Hopeless Plight Young Couple and Child Sheltered by Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 8

Outstanding among the many necessitous cases experienced by the Newcastle police is that of a young man and his wife and child, who were given shelter at the…

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Divorce Petition Maitland Circuit Court Wife's Story of Cruelty

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 6

Margaret Elizabeth Ellen Skewes, formerly O'Toolc, of Lake Crescent-street, Teralba, petitioned before Mr. Acting-Justice Markell, at the Maitland Circuit Court…

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Boy Stabbed Father to Stand Trial Charge of Murder Story at Fremantle Inquest PERTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 9

After investigating the death of Albert Daniel Mellor, 10, whose body, with a knife in the back, was found in a ear near the Richmond Hotel, Fremantle, on…

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Alleged Libel Appeal to High Court Coalfields Action Sydney

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

The hearing was begun in the High Court to-day of an appeal by Samuel Coronco, a fruiterer, formerly of Cessnock, from a judgement of the State Full…

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£107 for Pastor Court Claim Settled Salary Agreement Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 10

Because he thought it most undesirable to "wash a Church's linen in public," Judge Macindoe, in the Second County Court to-day, suggested that the parties…

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Police Guards "Really Spying on Him" Irish Leader's Protest Dublin, April 26

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 9

The Leader of the Opposition in the Dail Eireann (Mr. W. T. Cosgrave) to-day protested against the police protection afforded him, declaring that what the…

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Constable Stott Court Refuses Costs "But Crown Should Pay" Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 9

Following his acquittal at the Darwin Supreme Court last week, on a charge of having assaulted an aboriginal woman named Dolly, who subsequently died,…

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Indian Mill Strike Mob Attacks Police Guards OVER 85,000 Idle Calcutta, April 27

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 9

The Indian cotton mill strike became more serious to-day. A mob of over 1000 surrounded, and stoned a small force of police guarding a mill, and five policemen…

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Pastoral Award Court Grants Increases 6/ a Week for Some Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1934 · page 10

Employees in the pastoral industry will receive weekly increases up to 6/ by a judgement given by the Full Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 6

Before Mr. A. S. Taucheon, J.P., at Newcastle Police Court on Saturday, Timothy Healey, 57, labourer, was remanded until to-day, on a charge of having…

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Lilling of J. S. Keane Wilful Murder Verdict Police at Standstill Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 30 April 1934 · page 7

Expressing the hope that the police would bring the miscreant responsible for the crime to justice, the City…

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