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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

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Death After Fall Pensioner on Murder Charge SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 February 1936 · page 9

In the Central Police Court on Saturday, William Maxwell, 61, a pensioner, was charged with having feloniously and maliciously murdered William Weldon, on…

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Man Stabbed Police Arrest Woman SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 February 1936 · page 9

Informed by two boys that a man, with blood pouring from his back, was in a lane off Underwood-street, Paddington, police last night found a man suffering…

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Murder Charge Fugitives in France Extradition Sought London, February 14

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 February 1936 · page 8

The British Government has made a formal request to France for the extradition of Roger Vernon (alias Lacroix) on a Charge of having murdered Max…

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Roughly Handled United States Politician Police Assail Crowd New York, February 15

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 February 1936 · page 7

For several hours to-day the New York police were puzzled about what to do with a United States Congressman, who was held for disorderly conduct…

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Dispute in Family Brothers-in-law in Court Series of Cases

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 February 1936 · page 5

Allegations that his brother-in-law. Langough Moase. of West Maitland. had attacked him so savagely on March 9, 1933, that he…

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Brady Sentenced Three Years' Gaol Outburst in Court Hobart

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 8

Jack Anderson, also known as Patrick Brady, who was convicted at the Criminal Court on Friday on a charge of uttering, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Clark…

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Theft of Copper

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 6

Charged at Newcastle Police Court to-day with having stolen a copper, valued at £1 10s. James Kelly (41). laborer, was fined £5 with 5s costs…

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Theft of Coal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 2

Alexander Powell, 22, a labourer, was fined £2, in default four days' imperisonment, for having stolen coal, valued at 1/, at carrington, on February 15…

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STOLE £1800 From House "To Prepare for Honest Future" Sentenced to Gaol Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 5

A sentence of two and a half years for stealing in a dwelling and housebreaking was passed by Judge White at the…

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East Maitland Police Court Cruelly Ill-treated Horse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 9

Thomas Henry Moon, of Mill-street, East Maitland, pleaded "Not guilty" before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., at the East Maitland Police Court yesterday…

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MAITLAND—CESSNOCK—KURRI West Maitland Police Court Income Tax Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 9

Three charges of having failed to supply information and two chargers of having failed to furnish a return to the Income Tax Department were heard before Mr. E. A…

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Inquiry Ordered Cattle Stealing Conviction GRAFTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 9

In July last, Charles Fitzroy Bayley, a well-known grazier in the Glen Innes district, was convicted before Mr. C. G. Carboyd, Police Magistrate, of cattle…

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Both Arrested Adelaide Gaol Escapees ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 8

The car used by Reginald Morgan Christopher and Horace Kuhn, who escaped from Renmark Gaol last week, was found abandoned at Port Augusta this morning…

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Police Court Monday, February 17 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 2

Howard Cameron Millard, 51, a mining engineer, was remanded to February 24. on a charge of having had an unlicensed pistol in his possession, at Broadmeadow,…

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Arrested at Wedding Groom Accused of Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 6

Auguste Lecombe, a young man employed by the Mayor of the little hamlet of Rouville-le-Bigot, near Cherbourg, announced that he…

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Stole New Car Two Men Sentenced Inverell Quarter Sessions Inverell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 9

Victor Smith and Tony Athay pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having unlawfully taken possession of a motor-car at Bonshaw on December 7, 1935, at the…

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Grabbed Woman's Handbag Youth Sent to Gaol for a Month

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 5

An attempt by Robert Bellis (20), laborer, to steal a woman's handbag, was described at Newcastle Police Court to-day by Detective…

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Industrial Court Information Dismissed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 2

The information was dismissed in the case in which the West Wallsend Cooperative Society Ltd. was proceeded against on a charge of having failed to…

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Tension in Paris Procession of Socialists Protest Against Royalist Assault Paris, February 17

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 7

A force of 50,000 police maintained order to-day during the passage of a procession of 100,000 members of the Front Populaire, including thousands of women…

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Car and Cycle Collision Claim in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 February 1936 · page 6

At Newcastle Small Debts Court this afternoon, Leonard George Devereux, of Grey-street. Wickham. through his next friend Lily Adeline…

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