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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 208

Union's Appeal Upheld by High Court Apprentice Dispute Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1935 · page 11

Before the High Court to-day, the Amalgamated Engineering Union successfully appealed against a decision of Mr. Flynn, S.M., in dismissing an…

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FINED £110 Proprietor of Opium Den Police Find White Woman Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1935 · page 10

Smashing their way into a building in Dixon-street, City, this afternoon, police found two Chinese lying in bunks under the influence of opium. On another…

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Cessnock Fire More Dramatic Evidence Detective in Box Angry Clashes in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1935 · page 9

More dramatic evidence wad given at the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday, when the inquiry by the Cessnock Coroner (Mr. W. S…

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Action Upheld Admiralty and Court Martial Reversal of Verdict (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, March 21

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1935 · page 10

The First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Bolton Eyron-Monsell), answering a question in the House of Commons to-day, said that there were many precedents for, the…

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Gaol for Bicycle Stealing Magistrate's Comments

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 8

Standing outside the Bargain Arcade in Hunter-street West on March 2. Constable Miller saw Francis William Tyler 29, laborer, mount a…

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Custody Case Fails Cycle Parts Theft Alleged

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 9

The case against Roy Sketchley, 19. laborer, of Kahibah, who was charged at Newcastle Police Court to-day with having had cycle parts, reasonably…

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Died in Police Cells Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 3

Arrested yesterday afternoon on a minor charge. Prank. Potter (58) was found dead to-day in the cells at Darlinghurst Police Station. A…

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Pyjama Girl Murder Information Received From Vienna Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 7

Latest development in the Sydney C.I.B. inquiry into the pyjama girl murder at Albury is that Detective-Sergeant McRae and Wilks…

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Tennis Court May Cross Ocean

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 4

A tennis court may shortly make a voyage across the Atlantic. It is the famous court used in Madison Square Garden, New York, by W…

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Suspect's Long Walk After Murder at Asquith Vigil of Dog Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 7

A remarkable story of the suspect's walk of nearly 40 miles, from Chatswood to Sutherland, following the…

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Entertainment for Jurors Court's Solution of Awkward Problem

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 7

Just what to do with a Jury on a stormy night proved something of a problem to Mr. Justice Martin in the Criminal Court in Melbourne on…

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Thieves Escape Jumped from Stolen Car Sydney Police Chase Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 7

Leaping from a car, three suspected car thieves escape(d when chased by the police wireless patrol early yesterday morning. The vehicle crashed into a brick fence…

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Chase in Park Police Arrest Two Men Suspected Car Thieves Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 8

Early this morning the police patrol car chased two men through Exhibition Park, and, with the aid of other constables who had joined the chase, two men were…

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Asquith Tragedy Unemployed Man Victim Head Battered Man Surrenders to Police SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 7

With the head battered, the body of James O'Neill, 57, an unemployed returned soldier, was found in an isolated tin hut at Asquith,…

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Young Girl in Court Incident at Maitland Matron's Cup of Tea

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1935 · page 7

A 14.-years-old girl, who was charged at West Maitland Children's Court to-day with having administered poison to Matron…

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MAITLAND--CESSNOCK--KURRI West Maitland Police Court Charge of Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 9

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. William Pearse, of Denman-street, West…

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East Maitland Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 9

At the East Maitland Police Court yesterday, before Mr. K. R. Waddell, J. P., Percival Edwards was charged with having used indecent language to Frederick…

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Murder Charge Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 8

Robert Murray, 46 appeared at the Central Police Court to-day, on a charge of having murdered James O'Neil, at Asquith, on Friday…

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Damaged Police Mug

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 5

When William Beckley, 35, labourer, was charged with having maliciously damaged aged a quart mug, the property of the New South Wales Government, at…

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District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1935 · page 9

The Maitland District Court will be opened next Tuesday at the Courthouse. East Maitland. The following cases have been set down for trial before his Honor…

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