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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 208

Industrial Magistrate's Court Wages Claim Withdrawn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 3

Franklin Watts of Ryde-road. Hunter's Hill, claimed £67/14/6 from J. W. Lovell, Berner-street, Merewether, as balance of wages-said to have been due to him for…

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Housebreaker Sentenced Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 13

Said to have entertained lavishly from the proceeds of robberies, Frank Frederick Johnson. 36, was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions to-day to imprisonment for…

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Theft From Railway Station

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 3

Aleck Stephen Douglass, 18, a railway employee, was fined £3, in default imprisonment for six days, in each of two charges in which the theft of money, the…

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£51 Stolen From Shop Lad Charged by the Police Alleged Admission Muswellbrook

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 9

There was excitement in the cycling tour of Neville Leslie Hutchinson, aged 19, this week…

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Police Court Friday, February 8. (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Old Man's Lapse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 3

William Cooke, 72, a labourer, pleaded "Guilty" of the theft of £10, the property of the Swansea Old-age and Invalid Pensioners' Association, between…

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Murder Trial Shooting of Prospector Feud on Goldfield Alice Springs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 10

How Michael O'Brien, in his last hours, after he had been shot at Tennant's Creek, harboured a desire to shoot Clifford Renfrey, who is now on trial for…

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Still No Clue Perth Murder Inquiries Mystery Telephone Call Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 10

No definite clue has been obtained by detectives investigating the murder of Edgar Whitfield, caretaker at Caris Bros., jewellers, and the theft of diamonds worth…

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Murder Trial at Alice Springs Witnesses Accused of Perjury Alice Springs

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 9

Charges of perjury against witnesses for the prosecution were made by Mr. Beecher Webb, counsel for the defene, in his…

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Order of Court Against Federal Officer MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 10

By order of Judge Woinarski to-day, the Federal Conciliation Commissioner, Mr. E. H. Coneybeer, was ordered to pay £15/8/6, and £5/5/ costs, to the…

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Racing Pony's Death Vessel Met at Heads Police Investigating Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 7

In response to a message from the captain of the Katoomba, police met the vessel a the Heads to-day and went on board to investigate the death of a racing…

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Racing Matters in Dispute Referred to Police for Investigation Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 3

Detectives to-day Interviewed a man in Sydney relative to Impersonation charges laid by a prominent trainer of racehorses…

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Damaged By Lightning Tennis Court at Glebe Concrete Wall Demolished

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 7

Lightning struck a tennis court at the Glebe to-day with a dull roar like an explosion, and shattered a concrete…

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Labourer Bound Over Admissions to Police Hold-up Was Imaginary Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 10

Stated to have admitted that he told detectives a false story of being held up and robbed, Robert Charles Fulton, 23, labourer, was charged at the Redfern…

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Bankrupt's Pluck Seeks Fortune Inland Left Court for Gold Lease Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 February 1935 · page 10

This morning Clifford le Brun Brown was examined in the Bankruptcy Court. This afternoon he was driving a motorlorry along the Western Road, bound for…

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Trouble in Studio Advertiser Ordered Out Court Hears Radio Dispute Sydney

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

An application for an injunction to restrain Broadcasting Station 2KY, Trades Hall. Sydney, from excluding Sam Lands, jeweller, from the studio, and depriving…

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U.S. Gold Clause Supreme Court's Ruling Awaited Government Prepared Washington, February 7

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

The Attorney-General (Mr. H. S. Cummings) said to day that the Government was "ready for any emergency" in the event that the ruling by the Supreme…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 6

On a charge of having committed an offence against decency, George McLure, 40, farmer, was remanded until to-day be Mr. J. P. Tarn, J.P., at Newcastle Police…

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Dispute Taken to Maitland Court Charge of Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 8

Evidence that defendant struck him with a milk measure on the Oakhampton-road, West Maitland, on October 15, was given by Roland…

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Serious Offence Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 7

Harold Matthew Hall. 35, railway guard, was charged at Newcastle Quarter Sessions this afternoon with having committed a serious offence…

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Attacked Women Long Bay Gaol Prisoner SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 February 1935 · page 9

It has been revealed that during last week a young prisoner at Long Bay Gaol made two attempts to assault women. On the first occasion he attacked a…

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