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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

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

Constable Shot Charge of Intent to Murder Two Men in Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 7

"It is alleged that the defendant presented a revolver to the constable's abdomen and shot him," said the…

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Police Commissioner's Visit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 4

Returning from Urunga after attending a conference on aboriginal matters, the Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. H. Childs) left the train at Newcastle at 3…

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Albury Murder Scotland Yard's Interest SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 6

Scotland Yard is making inquiries which Sydney police expect will have an important bearing upon the "pyjama girl" crime that was perpetrated at Albury…

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Police Menaced Hostile Erskineville Crowd Took Refuge in Stadium Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 5

Only the promptitude of the police in seeking refuge in a vacant stadium prevented their being man-handled by a crowd of men and women in Erskineville…

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Rail Men's Claims Case Before the Federal Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 8

The opinion that an order nisi obtained by the Victorian Commissioners from a High Court Judge did not in fact prevent him…

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Noted Milk and Butter Thief Foiled But Too Quick for Police Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 7

Police so scared a notorious thief early to-day, that it is doubtful whether he will continue his nefarious practices. Although pursued by a policeman, he made a thrilling escape by leaping a high fence in dare-devil style…

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Baby's Death Lindbergh's Accusations Ordeal in Court Flemington (N.j.), January 4

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 5

Speaking with evident sincerity that none in the crowded courtroom could doubt, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, from the witness stand to-day, twice accused…

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Constable Shot Badly Wounded by Thief Night Raid on Store Many Police Comb Bargo District SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 January 1935 · page 5

While attempting to arrest a man which, with two other men, had allegedly broken into a store at Bargo, on the South Coast, Constable John…

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Police Court Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 9

John Norman Medcalf, 24, of Melbourne-street, East Maitland, on remand, was charged yesterday before Mr. Mahony, P.M., with having at East…

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Assault Cases Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 5

William Brien, 38, labourer, was remanded to January 17, on bail of £40, on charges of having assaulted Constable Page, at Wickham, on December 22, and…

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Funeral Of Murder Victim

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 9

FRIENDS AND SCHOOLMATES attended the funeral of Ethel Belshaw, child victim of the Inverloch horror. She was buried in the little bracken-covered cemetery at Lower Tarwin…

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Cross Charges of Assault Case From Kearsley

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 7

Before Mr. Mahoney. P.M. in the Cessnock Police Court this afternoon. William David Swan and Sidney George Williams, both residents of…

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Beggar Sent to Gaol Terrified Women in Streets

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 7

The police prosecutor (Sergeant Phillipson) alleged at Newcastle Police Court to-day that James John Neilson (42). laborer, terrified women…

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Theft of Bicycle Saddle Cessnock Man Fined £5 and Costs

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 9

"Bicycle thefts are becoming very rife, and I feel it is my duty to take action to prevent them," said Mr. Mahony. P.M., in the Cessnock Police…

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Police Court Monday, January 7 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Stole Drum of Paint

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 5

Percy Albert Smith, 46, bricklayer, was fined £2, or four days' imprisonment, on a charge of having stolen, at Port Waratah, on January 4, one five-gallon drum…

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In the Courts Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 9

At Newcastle Licensing Court to-day the transfer of the license of the Speer's Point Hotel was granted from Andrew C. Delaney to Duncan Forbes…

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Earlwood Hold-up Police Make Two Arrests SYDNEY

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

Two men who are alleged to have held up a butcher in his shop at Earlwood last Thursday were arrested by the police to-day. By their arrest police hope to…

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No More Clues Police at Inverloch Aeroplane for Mobility Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1935 · page 7

With no further clues, detectives are in a quandary concerning their investigations into the death of Ethel Belshaw, whose body was found in the scrub at…

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Police Court

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

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday morning. Richard Charles Trenholm, 18 of…

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Theft of Underclothing

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 January 1935 · page 5

"You can't eat these," said Constable Francis. Indicating a parcel of women's underclothing, according to his evidence at Newcastle Police…

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