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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 208

Man Committed on Assault Charge Alleged Sandbagging

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 9

Ellis Howard Lomas, 25, laborer, of Melton-avenue, Cessnock, was committed for trial to-day at Cessnock Police Court on a charge of having…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 9
Also in The Newcastle Sun

The District Licensing Inspector (Mr. F. A. Noble) submitted his quarterly report, which showed, with the exception of a few minor requirements, that…

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Police Court Monday, January 21 (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 3

Edward McNeil, 35, labourer, was fined £1, in default two days' imprisonment, for having used indecent language in Scott-street, on Saturday. McNeil was…

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Charge Dismissed Girl Injured in Attempted Gaol Break DUBBO

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 8

When the name was called in the local Court to-day of the girl who was injured yesterday in trying to escape from Dubbo Gaol, it was stated that she…

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Frenchmen Charged Sold Worthless Pictures Signatures Forged London, January 20

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 7

The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that the trial of J. C. Millet, grandson of the painter of "The Angelus," charged with selling worthless…

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Industrial Court Hearings Adjourned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 3

The hearing was adjourned until January 31 of the cases in which Leonard Spice, senr., and Leonard Spice, junr., proceeded against Joseph Callender and…

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Case Over a Cow Cessnock Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 8

Prosecuting in a case at Cessnock Police Court to-day, Thomas Batterham, of Kitchener, claimed that when he and his son went to a property…

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Rule Nisi Sought Immediate Request to High Court SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 7

In the High Court this afternoon, Mr. A. B. Piddington, K.C., asked Mr. Justice Evatt for a rule nisi for a statutory prohibition to restrain the Magistrate. Mr…

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Bandits Escape Police Trap Fails "Shot Their Way Out" New York, January 20

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 7

Two gangsters, believed to be Alvin Karpis, and Harry Campbell, the last survivors of the gang which kidnapped Edward Bremer in January, 1934, shot their…

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Kisch Convicted Prohibited Immigrant Sentence Deferred High Court Approached SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 7

The case in which Egon Erwin Kisch, the Czechoslovakian novelist, was charged with being a prohibited immigrant, was concluded before Mr. Shepherd, S.M., in…

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Sentence Of Three Months In Imposed On Kisch Verdict Of Magistrate Mr. Piddington Asks for Bail "Don't Remove Him to the Cells" "Be a Petty Gratification" Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 7

Convicted yesterday on a charge of being a prohibited immigrant, Egon Erwin Kisch, Czechoslovakian novelist, was to-day sentenced by Mr. Shepherd. S.M., to three months' imprisonment, with hard labor…

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Boy Leader in Crime, Police Allege "Ned Kelly," Aged Thirteen Won't Tell Tales on Mates Crafty and Daring Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1935 · page 7

Two 13-years-old boys, one or whom is known to the police as "Ned Kelly," and is said by a detective to be a desperate and…

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Cessnock Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 9

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday. Ellis Howard Lomas was charged with…

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Kisch Sentenced Deportation Ordered by Magistrate Released on Bail Appeal to Quarter Sessions SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 8

Sentence of three months' "imprisonment with hard labour was imposed on Egon Erwin Kisch to-day by Mr. Shepherd, S.M., pending his deportation…

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Inverloch Murder Man's [?]E to Police Saw Couple on Beach Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 7

From a photograph supplied by the police Mr. R. E. McIndoe, a retired grazier of Leongatha, claims to have identified a man whom he saw on New Year's…

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Opponent Of Nazis Shot Dead By Saar Police Suggested Act Of Reprisal? High Police Officer on Murder Charge Plebiscite Court Issues the Warrant Political Significance Denied Saarbrucken

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 1

Paul Meyer, a former Rhineland prefect, was shot dead to-day when he resisted police who attempted to arrest him on an old German warrant charging him with embezzlement…

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Murder Charge Accused Granted Bail SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 5

Bail of £500 has been granted Cyril Pearson, of Yarra Bay, who is under, remand, on a charge of having murdered William John Edwards, at Yarra Bay, on…

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Licensing Court Hotel Alterations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 4

Tooth and Co., represented by Mr. C. A. K. Cohen (Messrs. Braye, Cragg and Cohen), were granted permission to make alterations and additions to the Wallarah…

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Shot Through Heart Mother Finds Son Bicycle Theft Charge Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1935 · page 7

Following his arrest to-day on a charge of having stolen a bicycle, Reginald Smith, 22, of Thornbury, was found by his mother in his bedroom, shot through the…

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