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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

3,714 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 186

Cessnock Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 9

Before Mr. F. Wood, J.P., at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, William Lloyd Barry, 37, was charged with having, on March 15, assaulted. Thomas Sidney Jones…

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Police Court Monday, March 16 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Imprisoned for Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 2

Thomas Frederick Morris, 47, a fireman, and Henry Cass, 42, a seaman, were sent to gaol for one month for having assaulted George Bremner, at Newcastle, on March…

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Three Months' Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 2

John Edward Fitzgibbon, 21, a labourer was sentenced to imprisonment for three months when convicted of having had in his possession, at Mayfield, on March 9,…

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Maitland News West Maitland Police Court Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 9

William Johnson, of Hannan-street, West Maitland, and Jack Dempsey, of Plaisstowe-street, West Maitland, pleaded "Not guilty" at West Maitland Police…

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Bones in Fire Farmer's Disappearance Story in Court Italian on Murder Charge MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 7

Giacomo Tarca, an Italian, to-day appeared before Mr. Justice Martin and a jury in the Melbourne Criminal Court on a charge of…

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Capital Assault Charge Seven Youths on Trial Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 7

The trial of seven youths on a charge of having committed a capital assault on a young Italian woman in Parramatta Park on…

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Shop Windows Smashed Man Charged in Sydney Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 9

Three charges of maliciously damaging plate-glass windows were preferred to-day against Richard Kelly (42), a laborer, at the Central Court…

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Burning of Body Young Italian Charged Death of Farmer Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 7

Police moves in bringing about the breakdown and recanting of the second alleged statement of Giacomo Tarca,…

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Governor's Visit to Criminal Court Brisbane

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 7

The Governor (Sir Leslie Wilson) and Lady Wilson paid their first visit to the Criminal Court to-day and sat with the Chief Justice (Sir James Blair)…

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Fight in Court Over Cattle Quorrobolong Dispute

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 7

At Maitland District Court to-day evidence for the defence was heard in the case in which Edith Euphemia Lewis, of Quorrobolong, claimed…

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District Court Sitting at Maitland Four Matters Heard

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 9

Four of the five matters which came before Judge Nield at the sitting of the District Court which began at East Maitland Courthouse yesterday were disposed…

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Police Plagued with Scanties No Claimants for Stolen Garments Canberra

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 6

Would anybody like a new pair of scanties? Canberra police have 95 pairs and do not know what to do with them…

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Betting Inquiry Police Methods Detailed Chief Tells Two Legislators Appear SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 7

Methods adopted by the police to combat starting-price betting were detailed before the Royal Commission to-day, by the Commissioner of…

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Death Sworn to Sir C. Kingsford Smith Probate Court Matter Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 March 1936 · page 7

Finding that the aeroplane had probably come down off the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, or somewhere in the Bay of Bengal Mr. Justice Nicholas, in the…

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Capital Assault Seven Youths Charged Evidence of Woman's Brother Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1936 · page 9

Evidence was concluded and addresses of counsel begun at the Central. Criminal Court to-day before Mr. Justice Milner Stephen and a jury in the case in which…

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Six Youths Sentenced To Death Screaming Women Rushed From Court Parramatta Capital Assault Case Jurymen Were in Distress Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 March 1936 · page 5

Scenes, the like of which probably have never been witnessed previously in a Court in Australia, followed the imposition of the death sentence to-day on six youths—found guilty of a capital assault on a young…

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Police Court Tuesday, March 17 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Fined for Betting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1936 · page 2

Leo Marlow, 28, a labourer, was fined £10, costs 10/, in default imprisonment or 21 days, for having made a bet at Mayfield on March 16 on a horse…

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Damage to Windows Labourer Charged in Sydney SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1936 · page 9

Richard Kelly, 42, labourer, was remanded for medical observation, to-day, when he appeared at the Central Police Court before Mr. Shepherd, S.M., on…

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Quarrel by Doctors One Charged with Manslaughter Fitzroy Tragedy Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 March 1936 · page 5

A quarrel between two medical men over the payment of the purchase money due for the sale of a doctor's practice, resulted in the depth of one…

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Small Debts Court Plaintiff Non-suited

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1936 · page 2

A. F. Toll Ltd., trading as W. S. Bacon, Watt-street, Newcastle, claimed £9/10/, and costs, from R. Ellerton, Telford-street, Newcastle, for the cartage of…

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