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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

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Ten Additional Police Arrive

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 6

Ten additional police, who have been transferred to Newcastle from Sydney, arrived by train this morning…

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Police Abandon Charge Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 9

Police did not offer evidence to-day at Glebe Court in the case of Henry Orlando Vincent Wyndham (50), wharf laborer, who was discharged on…

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Police Officer's Car Raided More Vandalism at Merewether

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 2

Frequent thefts of tools from motor cars in the Newcastle district have been reported recently. The latest theft Indicates that the thieves…

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New Station Urged Mayfield Police Office "Disgrace to Department"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 4

"The whole arrangements, are a disgrace to the department," declared Mr. R. Cameron, M.L.A. after making an inspection yesterday afternoon of the police…

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Safety Lectures in Schools Police Officer to Visit Newcastle

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 6

It is expected that Constable Shiels, who is to be transferred temporarily to Newcastle to take charge of lectures to school children on…

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Carpenter's Death Natural Causes Verdict Police May Drop Charge Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 4

After hearing evidence to-day, the City Coroner (Mr. E. T. Oram) found that Dick Hodder, 45, carpenter, of Glebe, died from natural causes and not from injuries which…

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Police Prosecution Use of "Pin Machine" Intended As Warning Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 4

"Pin machines," which have been installed in hotels since the elimination of the fruit machines, were the subject of an interesting case, said by the police to…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 3

Before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P. M., at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, George Ball was charged with riotous behaviour. Sergeant Goode said that on…

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Two Charged Gelignite Explosion MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 13

Frederick Arthur Tasman Cartwright, 22, and Norman Christopher Cartwright, 19, labourers, were charged to-day at Kogarah Court with having maliciously…

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Five Charged Together Alleged Conspiracy Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 6

Shorthand notes taken in the Divorce Court of Queensland in the action Millar v Millar, were read by several official reporters at the…

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Murder Charge Pensioner Arrested GILGANDRA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 3

Detective-sergeant McCarthy, of the C.I.B., and Detective Frankish (Dubbo), to-day arrested James Earsman, 67, a pensioner, who was charged with the…

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Small Debts Court Verdict by Consent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 2

By consent, a verdict for £22/1/8 was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case in which Gavin Brandreth Parry, trading as Heiron and Smith (Salonola),…

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Extra Police Strengthen Local Force Protection for Seamen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 3

Eleven additional police—two sergeants and nine constables—were brought to Newcastle from Sydney yesterday to reinforce the Newcastle police in the…

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Executor's Claim From Tenant Dismissed by Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 4

Claiming that Charles Boyle, Young-street. Waratah. had detained window covers and electric light gilbes. Alexander R. Shepherd, executor of the…

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Court Returns Wallsend and Teralba Increased Business

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 13

Returns for 1935 of the work of the Courts of Petty Sessions held at Wallsend and Teralba, and of the activities of the offices of the Clerk of Petty Sessions at…

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Police Overcome by Gas Fumes Man Found Dead Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 4

Forcing their way into a gas-filled house in Gladstone-street, Marrickville where George Stanley Avery. 48 a pensioner, was found lying dead…

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Dramatic Chase by Police Capture of Escaped Prisoner Darwin

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 5

Robert Clive Stewart, the prisoner who escaped from Darwin Gaol on Friday, was recaptured to-day after an exciting encounter with the police…

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Scientists And Police Allied Get Gunmen Crime That Once Would Have Baffled Modern Marvels

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 7

HOW the aid of science has been enlisted to solve mysteries of crime that would have been baffling a few yearn ago is told in this article of a series on the world's most desperate criminals, by Courtney…

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S.O.S. SIGNALS Seen from Manly Ferry Police Search in Vain Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 13

On the arrival of a ferry boat at Manly to-night, the captain reported to the local police that during the trip from Circular Quay he had seen S.O.S. signals…

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Empire Mourns Passing of the King Prince of Wales Becomes Edward Viii. Great Reign Closes Death Came Peacefully on Monday Near Midnight Court Mourning Ordered for Nine Months (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 21

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 7

His Majesty, King George V., died peacefully at Sandringham at 11.55 o'clock last night. The official bulletin stated: "Death came peacefully to the King at 11.55 p.m. in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the…

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