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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 65 of 208

Mystery Explosions In House At Moore Park Sydney Police Think It's a Vendetta Police Guard Provided for Inmates Attempt to Wreck the Place Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 April 1935 · page 5

While detectives were continuing their inquiries to-day into a mysterious series of explosions, which early this morning did damage to a dwelling in Dowling-street, Moore Park, a constable was on guard at the house…

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Benefit of the Doubt "Not Satisfied," Said Magistrate Brush in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 7

Does the shock of arrest have a sobering effect on a person who is drunk? The acting police prosecutor…

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New Gaol for Tasmania Hobart

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 7

Tasmania is about to make new history in gaol building, and hopes to prove that after all stand walls and iron bars do make a prison…

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Betting News By Wireless Allegation by Police Radio Set at Rosehill Man Is Charged Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 7

When he asked Walter Bedford, 25, wireless mechanic, at Rosehill Racecourse, on April 6, what he transmitted by a…

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Manager Charged with Forgery Big Sums Mentioned Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 7

An alleged forgery stated to involve sums totalling between £2000 end £3000 was mentioned at the Central Police Court to-day, when Tr[?]mas Alexander…

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State Police Chiefs to Confer Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 8

For the first time since 1026 a conference of the Police Commissioners of all States in the Commonwealth will be held in Sydney shortly…

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Changes in Court Personnel New Prosecutor

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 6

The Police Prosecutor (Sergeant J. Phillipson) began his holidays to-day, and his place was taken at Newcastle Police Court by Constable…

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Against Gangsters Special Police in Spain MADRID, April 21

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 5

A special police corps is being enrolled for the purpose of stamping out gangsters. The corps is to patrol in motor-cars and on foot…

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House Damaged Mysterious Explosions Vendetta As Police Theory Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 5

Detectives are making inquiries into explosions which occurred in a house in Dowling street, Moore Park, early to-day, party wrecking the premises…

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Sympathetic King Britain's First Labor Govt. Bought Court Dress

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 9

WHEN the full inner story of the first Labor Government of England is told, King George will have no need to fear the truth, and to-day's article of the series dealing with His Majesty's life reveals again his great humanity and tact In 1924 the formation of the first Labor Government in Great Britain was something, of course, which not only gripped public imagination at…

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Said He Was a Detective Alleged Thief Rifles Man's Pockets Police Investigate

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 9

Newcastle police are investigating a report that a man who masqueraded as a detective robbed another man in Shortland Park…

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Shots Fired Republicans and Police Irish Demonstration "Content with Nothing Less Than Independence" (Australian Press Association.) DUBLIN, April 21

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 5

Precautions were taken by the police, and the Easter celebrations in Dublin were orderly. A clash occurred between…

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Annoyed Czech Walked Off Scene on Court in Rome Tourney Roderick Menzel Gets, "The Huff" Australians' Form Better Rome

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1935 · page 1

The Czechoslovakia champion, Roderick Menzel, who toured Australia last season, caused a…

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Man Remanded to Newcastle Charged with Assault at Wickham Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 8

Charged with having assaulted Constable G. F. Page at Wickham on December 22, 1934, and using insulting words. Cecil Patrick Maher (31),…

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Three Months' Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 9

Sentence of three months' imprisonment with hard labor was imposed on Alexander Leece, 46, laborer, on a charge of having stolen a suit of…

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Desired Gaol Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 7

Walking up to a policeman in Lidecombe to-day a man stated the he had thrown a brick through the window of the commonwealth Bank in that suburb. He…

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Police Conference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 6

A conference of Police Commissioners throughout Australian will be held in Sydney shortly. Commissioners from All States will attend No date has been…

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On His List! Magistrate Hopes and Waits

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 7

Woe betide a certain motor cyclist with a noisy exhaust, who makes a practice of disturbing the midnight peace of Lawson-street, Hamilton, when, and if, he is caught! "EVERY day at court, when a list of…

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Police Charge Fails

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 5

A brush between Mr. H. L. O'Neill (Messrs. Johnson and O'Neill) for the defence and the police occurred in the case in which Freledrick Claude Davis…

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Digger Helped to Sydney Magistrate's Anzac Day Gesture

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1935 · page 7

The spirit of Anzac Day pervaded Newcastle Police Court to-day, and the magistrate (Mr. Soane, S.M.) made a generous gesture towards an unfortunate…

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