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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 208

New Arm for Police Force Victorian Scheme Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 8

The Victorian police force is to have a new arm—a police information section, designed as a centre for the collection, analysis and distribution of…

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Spectator Shot Argument at Shooting Gallery Police Make Arrest Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 13

While standing in front of a shooting gallery at Liverpool to-night, watching a merry-go-round close by, William Rendall, 14, of Liverpool, was shot in the right…

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Smuggled Opium Fifty Tins Handed to Police Large Gang Suspected Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 13

Fifty tins of opium, valued at £125, which were found on the railway line between Elsternwick and Ripponlea, by a ganger, early this week, were handed…

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Restraint Sought Kisch's Plea to High Court Conviction Opposed Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 7

That the conviction of Egon Kisch as a prohibited immigrant was not supported by any judicial principle and was…

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Death of Sir Langer Owen Former Judge of Divorce Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 January 1935 · page 7

Sir Langer Owen. former Judge in Divorce, died shortly before 3 p.m. to-day after a long illness. Sir Langer was appointed to the…

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Police Court Friday, January 25 (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Sentence Suspended

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 11

On a charge of having attempted to steal £2, the property of Eliza Butterworth, at Teralba on January 19, James Vincent Turner, 28, labourer, was…

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Jupp Sent to Gaol Nine Months for Manslaughter Motor Collision London

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 1

V. W. C. Jupp. the Northants cricketer was sentenced to-day to nine months' imprisonment for manslaughter,…

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Hotel Murder Former German Official Woman Implicated London, January 24

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 9

The Prague correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "A young Berlin woman, with two German Nazis, murdered. Rudolph Warmys, the ex-director of the…

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New Department Victorian Police Force Keep Criminals' Records Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 10

Criminals will find their work harder in future owing to the formation of a new department in the Victorian Police Force. A record is to be kept by this branch…

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Disappointed Lover Shoots Girl Himself Near Kempsey Murder and Suicide at Australeden Girl's Room Entered Wounded Victim in Burning Bed Lived Two Hours Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 26 January 1935 · page 2

Disappointed in his love for Joyce Eggins, 16 years old, David Geddes Taylor, a farm laborer, aged 28, stole into…

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Police Court Remands

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 3

At Newcastle Police Court to-day. William Buckley, 32, seaman, charged with having used indecent language at Wickham police station, was…

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Baby Murder Trial

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 1

MISS BETTY GOW, the Lindbergh baby nurse, arriving at the courthouse in New Jersey to give evidence at the trial of Bruno…

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Murder Mystery at the Royal

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 5

A thrilling and baffling murder mystery, I Am a Thief, which is being shown at the Theatre Royal, grips attention at the…

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Woman Attacked Thown Into River Yarra Complaint to Police Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 January 1935 · page 9

A remarkable story of an attack on her by a man on Friday was related by Mrs. Phyllis Austin, of Prahran, yesterday. She said she was walking along a…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 6

Before Mr. J. Tarn, J.P., at Newcastle Courthouse, yesterday, G. Plovman, 32, a labourer, and Charles A. Harrison, 20, a labourer, were remanded until February 4…

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Theft of Bicycle

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 8

At the Cessnock Police Court to-day. Mr. Mahony. P.M., suggested that action should be taken against two witnesses for perjury…

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Defied the Court Farmer Is Sent to Gaol Bankruptcy Case Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 7

A farmer defied the Judge in Bankruptcy (Mr. Justice Lukin), in the Bankruptcy Court to-day, and was taken to gaol by a…

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Small Debts Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 8

A verdict for £50, with 10s 6d costs in favor of Myer Cohen, of Bolton-street, was made at Newcastle Small Debts Court to-day against George…

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Man's Skull Fractured Charge Made at Cessnock Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 7

Stating that the victim of the alleged assault was in a serious condition. Sergeant Small asked that substantial bail be guaranteed when…

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Violence Feared Unemployed Men on Trains Police Reinforced Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1935 · page 8

An ugly situation has developed with unemployed men who are "jumping the rattler" on trains bound for…

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