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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1934

3,757 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 188

Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 9

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., presided at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. Brian Ivens was fined £1, with 8/costs. for having driven a car without a licence…

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Assault Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 4

On the application of Mr. H. L. O'Neill (Messrs. Johnson and O'Neill), for the plaintiff, the hearing was adjourned until February 27 of the case in which…

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Double Murder Man Charged in N.Z. Auckland (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 8

Following intensive investigations by the police over a period of three months. William Alfred Bayly, 28, was charged at the Auckland Court to-day with the…

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Theft of Fruit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 4

Pleading "Guilty," Joseph H. J. Beeston, "Hampton-avenue, Adamstown, was remanded until to-day for sentence, on a charge of having stolen a quantity of…

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Theft of Pipes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 6

It was reported to Newcastle police yesterday that pipes and mountings, the property of the Public Works Department, and valued at £20/15/, were stolen…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 4

Alton Thomas Cusick of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted three booth licences for Newcastle races on January 26…

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New Zealand Murder Case Auckland (N.z)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 7

Evidence of startling allegations was Given when the hearing of a charge against William Alfred Bailey (28), of having murdered Samuel…

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Small Debts Court Verdict for Plaintiff

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 4

A verdict for £33/15/, with £1/9 costs, was returned in favour of plaintiff in the case in Which Frank Lionel Date, of Merewether, sued the Coastal…

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Mother and Child Police Investigate Drowning TUMUT

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 7

Police who are inquiring into the circumstances surrounding the drowning of Mrs. Florence Martin and her nine-months-old child in the Tumut River last…

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Dispute Taken to Court Claim for Furniture

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 7

Alleging the detention of a quantity of household effects, William Arthur Potter, of Cleary-street, Hamilton, at Newcastle Summons Court…

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Kurri Hit-run Victim Witnesses Wanted by Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 9

The Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns)opened an inquest at the Kurri Kurri Courthouse yesterday concerning the death of Robert Herron, of Coronation-street,…

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Police Find Woman Under Anaesthetic Eight Arrests Made Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 9

A woman under the influence of an anaesthetic was found on a table in a house on the Esplanade at Elwood when it was raided by detectives, it…

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Tragedy in Scenes of Beauty Police Quest at Tumut Tumut

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 9

In contrast to the grim nature of their task is the beauty of scenes among which Detective-sergeant Keogh is moving in further…

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Emden Bell Alleged Newspaper Offer Statement in Court Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 7

The statement that a Sydney morning newspaper had offered him a large sum of money so that a representative could accompany him to Melbourne and recover…

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Two Windows Smashed Police Suspect One Gang Fingerprints on Bottle Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 8

Although many people were passing at the time, thieves smashed the window of a jeweller's shop in Oxford-street, at 1 o'clock this morning, and stole goods…

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Man's "Good Joke" Girl's Clothes on Rock Futile Search by Police Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 7

An eight-hour search of thick scrub and water, in a futile search for a girl's body, was made throughout the night by a squad of police, before it was learned…

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Crooner Sets Trap for His Wife a Gramophone Record Tells Novel Evidence in Divorce Court Rudy Vallee Idea Los Angeles

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 1

Phonograph records of his wife's conversations with her sweetheart, were submitted as evidence by America's…

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Kurri Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 9

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., presided at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday. Henry Morgan, of Barton-street, Kurri Kurri, and Thomas Beddow, of…

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Early Morning Raid by Detectives Eighteen Men on Goods Train Travelling to Dungog to Get Dole Sentenced to Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 14

Police and railway detectives arrested 18 men whom they found crouching in trucks attached to a goods…

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Police Court Wednesday, January 17 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 9

On the application of the Police Prosecutor (Sergeant J. Phillipson), a remand to January 25 was granted in the case in which Peter Hogg, 52 labourer, was…

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