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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1935

4,154 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 208

Theft of Brass

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 5

Peter Bennett, 4, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen, at Newcastle on January 9, 15lb of brass and 12lb of copper, valued at 6/9. the…

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Theft of Pigs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 5

Charged with having stolen, at Tarro, on January 8, pigs, valued at 11/ each, the property of Clara Agnes Niland, and Cecilia Catherine Niland, each of the…

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MAITLAND-CESSNOCK-KURRI West Maitland Police Court

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

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday. Marty Clarence Sullivan, a labourer, of…

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Police Court Monday, January 14 (Before Mr. E. J. Harrison, S.m.) Drunkenness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 5

Committed on charges of drunkenness, James White 54, labourer, and Leslie Bailey, 47, labourer, were each fined 10/, in default 24 hours' imprisonment…

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Cow in Custody of Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 9

While the case of which it forms the subject is repeatedly adjourned, a cow grazes peacefully in the yard at Cessnock Courthouse…

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Queensland Police "No Wholesale Retirements" BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 8

The report that wholesale retirement were to take place in the Queensland Police Force was denied to-day by the Commissioner (Mr. Carroll), who said that…

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Arrest Made in Tallarook Case Charge of Murder Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 7

Following the recovery of the body of James Albert Ross. 23. carpenter, of Tallnrook, from Sugar Long Creek. 21 miles out of Tullarook, yesterday…

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Inverloch Murder Car Seen Near Spot Attempt to Trace Driver Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 7

Information that a motor vehicle was seen parked in the scrub on New Year's Day, within 100 yards of where Ethel Belshaw's body was found at Inverloch, has…

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Pretty Girl As "Sleuth" She Shadowed Murder Suspect "Acted Strangely" Flemington (N.j.)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 1

Hildegrad Olga Alexander, a handsome New York dress model, who amused herself by amateur detective operations, furnished a…

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Shocking Injuries Old Man Assaulted Son Before Court Inverell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 7

Bleeding profusely from shocking facial and scalp wounds William Ison, 60, mail contractor, was found by Sergeant Rochester in a state of collapse in a lane at…

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"Must Go On" Charge Against Kisch Court Argument Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 8

A suggestion that the prosecution against Kisch be not proceeded with, if he gave an undertaking to leave the Commonwealth, was made by the Magistrate at…

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Minister's Denial Kisch's Passport Not Withheld? Clashes in Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 7

Denials that he or any of his ministerial colleagues had anything to do with the withholding of Kisch's passport,…

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Body in Creek Missing Farm Worker Battered and Tied Police Detain Two Men MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 7

Battered about [?] head, with a bullet wound behind the car, and with the hands and legs tied behind the back, the body of James Albert Ross, 23, farm labourer, of…

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Chaotic Traffic Position Concern Expressed by City Council Go As You Please in Traffic Police Withdrawn for Other Jobs Tramway Position

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 January 1935 · page 9

Vigorous protests against what wax described as the hurdy-gurdy, catch-as-catch-con, go-as-you-please and chaotic condition…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 9

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday morning. Harry Crawford proceeded against…

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Theft From Steamer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 2

Seen carrying a handbag containing a quantity of tinned goods from the direction of the steamer Iron Crown about midnight on Monday. John Thomas…

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Relative Charged Tallarook Tragedy MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 8

At the Seymour Police Court to-day. Charles Jeffrey Jones, 24, was remanded to Melbourne on a charge of having murdered James Albert Ross, 23, carpenter,…

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Search For Body In Victorian Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 1

WITH A BULLET, WOUND belli nd the right ear. the body of James Albert Ross, 23, was found in Sugarloaj Creek, near Tullarook, Victoria. At left is shown police se arching a disused mine shaft and, at right, crossing the creek after the body had been found…

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Theft of Goods by Young Men Ordered Six Months' Imprisonment

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 9

Charged with having stolen tools, valued at £3, the property of Edward Purkiss; tools valued at £9 10s, the property of John McLenan; and with…

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Small Debts Court Claim by Grocer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1935 · page 2

A verdict for5 £11/13/1, with 13/ costs, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which William John Ferguson of Ferguson's Excel Stores, sued…

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