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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 208

Police Court Wednesday, January 9 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 5

For having used indecent language in Cowper-street, Carrington, on Tuesday, Robert Williams, 38, labourer, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment…

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Attack on Woman Native Sentenced in India CALCUTTA, January 8

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 8

A Madrasi named Lazarus was sentenced to five years' hard labour at Jubbulpore for the attempted murder of Mrs. Evans. No motive for the crime was…

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Woman Charged Dramatic Shanghai Case "Manufactured Narcotics" Shanghai, January 9

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 7

One of the most sensational cases in Shanghai's criminal history was opened in the British Court to-day, when Madame Victor V. Johnson, wife of, an…

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Lindbergh Murder Hauptmann Identified Two Witnesses Definite Flemington, January 8

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 7

Two State witnesses, Bronx taxi-driver, named Perrone, and an 87-year-old retired New Jersey farmer, named Hochmuth, placed the finger of…

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Albury Murder Scotland Yard Report Initials on Towel Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 7

Detectives engaged on the Albury "pyjama" murder are investigating a report from Scotland Yard that a business man in London informed the "Yard"…

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Kisch Charged Information from England "UNDESIRABLE" Counsel's Claim for Dismissal Rejected SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 8

The right of Egon Kisch to enter and remain in Australia was contested again to-day. At the Central Summons Court Kisch was charged with being a…

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Old Man's Death Police Investigations Charge of Manslaughter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 6

Following the death in Newcastle Hospital on Tuesday, of James White, 65, a persioner, of Kahibah, Newcastle detectives arrested a man last night and…

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Court Sequel Marriage on Boxing Day Man of 60 and Girl of 16 SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 8

George McMurtrie, 60, who married Annie Lacey, aged 16, on Boxing Day, was committed for trial to-day from Redfern Police Court on a charge of having taken…

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Federal Arbitration Awards For Rail And Tram Men Affects N.S.W. Employees Judge's Rebuke to Victorian Govt.! Writ of Prohibition Against Court "Should Verify Position" Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 January 1935 · page 9

In the Federal Arbitration Court to-day Judge Drake Brockman announced that he had decided to accede to the requests of the parties and to make two interim awards for railway and tramway employees…

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Two Months' Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 17

Stephen Burns, 34, labourer, was sentenced, to imprisonment for two months, on a charge of having been a suspected person found on March 15. 1932, on the…

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Murder Charge Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 9

Charged with having feloniously and maliciously murdered his wife. Maud Beatrice Joel, at Darlington on January 1. Leslie Joel. 41, hotelkeeper…

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Woman Sentenced "Never Had a Chance" SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 16

Stated to have been sentenced to terms of 19 years' imprisonment, Ethel, Violet May Benn, 38, domestic, was sentenced to 12 months' gaol, with light labour, at the…

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Police Court Thursday, January 10 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Manslaughter Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 17

A remind until January 17 was granted in the case in which John Howell Powell. 65 pensioner, was charged with having feloniously slain James White, at…

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Adherence to World Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 12

Washington, January 9.—The Senate Foreign Relations Committee to-day voted for adherence to the World Court, with a reservation protecting the United…

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Police Inspector in Disgrace Stavisky Scandal Echo Paris

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 1

Detective-Inspector Bony, who recently failed in his libel action against a Paris newspaper, arising out of the Stavisky case has been dismissed…

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Farmhand's Death Did Not Appear in Court MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 18

Ronald William Hill, 45, an unemployed farm hand, Who was to have appeared before the Camberwell Court to-day on a charge of indecency, claimed a ladder at…

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Seeks Possession of Daughter Husband's Appeal to Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 7

The possession of a seven-year-old girl was the subject of a special application before Mr. Justine Long Innes this afternoon, when the father…

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Nine Killed Police Fire on Moslems Dispute in India Calcutta, January 10

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

Nine Moslems, including two women, were killed, and over 20 injured, at Ajra, a small town in Ichalkaranji, a pretty feudatory State, under the rule…

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Judge's Complaint Lack of Court Facilities Sydney Arbitration Cases Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 12

In the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, Judge Drake-Brockman protested against the lack of court facilities in Sydney for Federal Arbitration Court judges,…

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Charlestown Court Thursday, January 10 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 January 1935 · page 9

On a charge that they had taken into the John Darling colliery, on October 3, explosives ii excess of the amount permitted by the mining regulations, namely…

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