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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

3,714 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 186

Small Debts Court Ex-parte Matter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 3

In an ex-parte matter, a verdict for £33, with 7/ costs, was returned in favour of the plaintiff in the case between James Robertson, of North Sydney, and…

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Religious Education Doctor's Orphaned Children Court Verdict on Custody Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 7

The High Court of Australia to-day by a majority verdict, refused special leave to appeal against the judgment of the Full Court of Queensland reversing the…

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Kurri Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 11

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., presided at the Kerri Kurri Police Court yesterday. THREE BROTHERS FINED. Charged with having behaved in a…

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Police Corruption in Johannesburg 12 Years' Gaol for Sergeant Cape Town

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 1

The public has been shocked by the conviction of a leading Johannesburg detective-sergeant for corruption in connection with liquor cases…

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Woman Sent to Gaol Grafton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 10

Sentence of imprisonment for 18 months, with light labour, was passed by Judge Claney, at Grafton Quarter Sessionjs to-day, on Luey Lavinia Elsie Gentle, 42,…

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Industrial Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 11

In the Industrial Court, held at the Cessnock Courthouse, over which Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., presided, James Hutton, Secretary of the Shop Assistants and…

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Police Patrols for the Hill

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 5

The request of Newcastle women's branch of the U.A.P. for police patrols for The Hill at Newcastle have borne results, the Acting President of the…

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Police Court Wednesday, April 8 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Summons Division Rode Bicycles Abreast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 3

Proceeded against by Waratah Council for having ridden bicycles abreast with in the municipality, five defendants were fined £1, coats 8/, in default…

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Safety Drive Campaign Launched by Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 3

The unveiling of the Police Safety Campaign poster over the Toll Gates of the Sydney Harbour Bridge was the signal for the beginning of an intensive…

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Land and Valuation Court at Maitland

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 7

A Land and Valuation Court will sit at West Maitland Court House on April 21…

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Not Enough Police Minor Grime in Islington Aldermen Complain

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 8

Members of the Wickham Council are concerned at the increase in minor crime in Islington. They attribute it to…

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Restricted Reports New Zealand Court Cases Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 9

A bill restricting to formal details reports of divorce cases and proceedings under the Destitute Persons Act was introduced into the House of Representatives…

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Police Needed Complaints at Wickham Council Crime at Islington Representations to Be Made

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 4

On the casting vote of the Mayor, Wickham Council decided last night to ask the Commissioner for Police (Mr. W. J. Mackay) to station additional police in…

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Mareo's Application Dismissal by N.Z. Court Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 10

The Court of Appeal to-day dismissed an application for a new trial on behalf of Eric Mareo, who was convicted at Auckland for the murder of his wife,…

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Clothing Trades Question of Holidays Petition to Federal Court Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 4

Officials of the Clothing Trades Union announced to-day that 8000 of the 13000 clothing trade employees in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, and South…

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Charlestown Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 8

At the Charlestown Court yesterday, before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.. the adjourned cases in which Inspector Hoole proceeded against Robert Skillings, of Swansea, for…

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Gave Boy Beer Butcher Sent to Gaol PERTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 5

For having supplied intoxicating liquor to a boy aged 4 years and 10 months, Edward James Evans, 68, a butcher, was sentenced to three months imprisonment…

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Police Court Thursday, April 9 Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m. Fined for Betting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 8

Frank James, 25, a labourer, was fined £10, costs 10/, in default imprisonment for 21 days, when he pleaded "Guilty" to having made a bet at Hamilton on…

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Land and Valuation Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 6

The annual sittings of the Land and Valuation Court will be held at the West Maitland Court house on April 21…

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To Brisbane Kopet is Remanded Train Murder Charge Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 5

Charged with the wilful murder of Harold Edward Speering, 33, on the mail train between Gympie and Brisbane, on April 2, Herbert Kopet, 23, a station…

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