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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 208

Old Man's Death Alleged Assault at Kahibah Pensioner for Trial Evidence at Inquest

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

After inquiring into the death of James White, 67, of Kahibah, in the Newcastle Hospital, on January, 8, the Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin), at the inquest held at…

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Matyas Rakosi Hungarian on Trial Murder Charges Budapest, January 21

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

Matyas Rakosi, after serving eight and a half years' imprisonment for helping to create a Communist organisation, an Trade Commissioner for the Bela Kun…

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Newcastle Courts Tuesday, January 22 (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Theft Charge

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

In the case in which Raymond Hodson Parker, 27 mechanic, was charged with having stolen a car, valued at £50, the property of Alfred Leadbeater, At…

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Small Debts Court Verdict by Consent

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

By consent, a verdict for £15. with 9/ costs, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which Susie Hutsdale, of Toronto, sued Norman Cole, of…

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Coramba Wreck Court Gives Decision Use of Radio Advised Melbourne

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

A finding that the coastal steamer, Coramba, was lost because of a storm, that the vessel was seaworthy and fully equipped with the prescribed life-saving…

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Intruders Disturbed Constable Fires Shot at Fleeing Suspect Young Man Before Court Singleton

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

Constable Yardy was patrolling John-street, Singleton, shortly before midnight when he heard a noise inside James Moore and Company's branch store. He is stated…

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Stealing & Receiving Charges Cases Adjourned at Newcastle Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 15

Applying for a remand until February 4 in the case in which John Frederick Williams. 19, motor mechanic, was charged with having broken…

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Gaol for Embezzlement

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 5

Three charges were preferred against Gordon Henderson, alias Knight Barry, 30. The charges were—Having fraudulently embezzled £10 and £11 at Toronto…

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Scheme for Talkie Fraud Charged in Court £80,000 Mentioned Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 13

Evidence of an alleged agreement to provide £80,000 to finance the filming of "The Love Child," was given…

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Police Court Wednesday, January 23 (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 5

For having used indecent language on the Teralba railway station on January 22, James McWilliams, 25, labourer, was fined £1, in default two days'…

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Golf Club As Court Judge's Vacation Interruption Urgent Matter Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 13

A situation without precedent in New South Wales occurred to-day, when Mr. Justice Maxwell constituted a…

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Stir in Saar Separatist Leader Shot Murder Charge Laid German Revenge Alleged (Australian Press Association.) SAARBRUCKEN, January 22

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 7

When police attempted to arrest Paul Meyer, a former Prefect of the Rhineland, on an old German warrant charging him with embezzlement, Meyer resisted, and…

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Miner Awarded £150 Wrongful Imprisonment Failed to Pay Court Costs Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 7

Alleging wrongful, imprisonment, John Langdon Lane, a miner, was to-day awarded £150, with costs, by Mr. Justice Napier, in his claim for £2000 damages…

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Ladder in Court Allegedly Used in Kidnapping Trial of Hauptmann Flemington (N.j.). January 22

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1935 · page 8

The trial of Bernard Richard Hauptmann in connection with the kidnapping and death of the Lindbergh baby was continued to-day…

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Gaol for Car Thief Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 15

Charged with having; stolen. "motorcars, Terence Harcourt Cusick, 22, labourer, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment with hard labour, at the Central…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 19

William Thomas was granted the transfer from Robert Lee of the licence for a billiard room in Lambton-road, New Lambton…

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Police Court Thursday, January 24 (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Totalisator Act Breaches

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 19

James Parnell, 42, salesman, was fined £10, with 17/6 costs, in default 22 days' imprisonment, on a charge of having made a bet at Merewether on January 23 on a…

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Posed As Knight False Pretences Charge Three Months' Gaol Kandos

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 14

A sentence of three months gaol was imposed at the Kandos Police Court to-day on John Lawrence Baxter, described as an analytical chemist. It was alleged…

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Film Fraud Alleged Luke's Story of Proposal Elocutionist Charged Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 7

Keen interest is being taken in the Central Police Court hearing of the charge associated with the book "The Love…

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I Am a Thief Murder Mystery For The Royal

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 3

AM A THIEF, a thrilling and baffling murder mystery, opens at the Theatre Royal to-morrow. The story by Ralph Block and Doris Malloy, depicts the exciting battle between the French Surete and a band of international Jewel…

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