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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 208

Monetary Policy International Pact American's Forecast Significant Utterance in Court (Australian Press Association.) WASHINGTON, January 9

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

The Attorney-General (Mr. H. S. Cummings), defending in the Supreme Court to-day a suit brought against the Government in respect of the gold clause in…

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Theft of Shirts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 7

Charged with the theft of 14 shorts, valued at £2/9/, the property of the Cooee Clothing Co. Ltd., on January 10 William Alexander McGregor, 34, miner, was…

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Murder Charge Hotelkeeper Remanded SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 10

At the Redfern Police Court to-day. Leslie Joel, 41, hotelkeeper, was remanded until January 15, on bail of £200, on a charge of having feloniously and…

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Police Court Friday, January 11 (Before Mr. E. A. Mahoney, A.s.m.) Fined for Betting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 7

John Neilson, 42, labourer, was fined £10. costs 11/, in default imprisonment for 22 days, when he pleaded "Guilty" to having made a bet, at Islington, on…

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Must Stay in Gaol Non-payment of Debts Italian's Plea Refused Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 10

Stating that he had been robbed of £140 by three men who entered his Camperdown shop, John Lindo, a young Italian, applied to Mr. Justice Lukin, in the…

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Order of Foresters Court Hunter's Officers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 7

With impressive ceremony, the installation of officers of Court Hunter (Newcastle) of the Aucient Order of Foresters was held in Auckland-street…

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Police Officer Dismissed from Service PARIS, January 10

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 10

Detective-Inspector Bony, who recently failed in his libel action against a Paris newspaper, arising out of the Stavisky case, refused to answer questions before…

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Mistakes in Spelling Handwriting of Murder Suspect Lindbergh Case Flemington (N.j.)

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 1

Two handwriting experts, who declared that the ransom notes including the peculiar spelling were written by Hauptmann,…

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Ethel Belshaw Murderer Not Stranger Opinion of Police Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 9

The parents of Ethel Belshaw, victim of the Inverloch murder, have been unable to suggest any young man of their acquaintance who may have met their…

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Bodyguard for the King Police Official's Retirement London, Dec. 29

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 1

Superintendent William George Cole, the police officer who has guarded the King for 14 years, has just retired. The King and Queen…

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London Letter Arms Traffic Inquiry—"Streamlining" the City—Famous Chapel Restored—Sterilisation and Politics—When the Queen was a Bride—When London Burned—A Police Court Echo LONDON, November 20

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 5

Since Sir John Simon, the Foreign Secretary, announced in the House of Commons that the Government intended to establish an inquiry into the arms…

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Bank Manager Court Goes to Bedside Charge of Embezzlement Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 January 1935 · page 10

Francis Edmund Power, bank manager, of Barmera, was charged in the Adelaide Police Court to-day with haying fraudulently embezzled £562 while a servant of…

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Assault Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 9

Thomas Casey, of Cook's Hill, was charged before Mr. Mahony, P.M.. at West Maitland Police Court to-day, with having assaulted Roland…

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Fewer Police for Road Traffic Owing to Serious Crime

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 9

Owing to serious crime being committed in the district and the necessity for police attention to this, it has not been practicable…

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Efficiency Campaign Queensland Police Force Many Retirements Likely Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 8

As a result of an efficiency campaign which has been launched by the Queensland Police Commissioner (Mr. Caroll), wholesale retirements from the Police…

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Hunger Marchers Scuffle with Paris Police Requests to Parliament Paris, January 12

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 8

Ten thousand unemployed hunger-marchers, despite the Government's prohibition of the demonstration, which Communists organised, attempted to…

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Indian Terrorists Three Youths Arrested Police Find Plans in Code Calcutta, January 12

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 8

Following a bomb explosion in a house in the suburbs of Calcutta, police arrested three Bengali youths suspected to be wanted terrorists, for the arrest of…

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Railway Award Conferences Court Hearing Was Adjourned Agreement Expected Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 8

With a view to reaching agreement on points raised by the A.R.U. and the Federated Iron Workers' Association on the claims for a new…

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Counterfeit Florins Parcel of 140 in Court Two Men for Trial

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 January 1935 · page 7

More than 140 allegedly spurious florins were produced at the Newcastle Police Court to-day, when Leslie John Morton (27),…

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Alleged Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 9

Thomas Casey, of Laman-street, Newcastle, on remand, was charged with having assaulted Roland Rudolph Smith, on October 15, 1934, at Oakhampton, and…

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