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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1936

3,714 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 186

MR. J. A. MOLLISON Memories of Darwin Planes Tied to Gaol Fence Darwin

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

Among the passengers by the 'plane to-day were Mr. J. L. Grey, the new First Officer for Qantas Empire Airways, who is making his first flight overseas…

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Brothers to Hang Triple Canadian Murder DORCHESTER (New DORCHESTER (New Brunswick) April 8

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

DORCHESTER (New Burnswick), April 8 Two brothers, Arthur Bannister, 19, and Daniel Bannister, 20, were sentenced to death to-day on a charge of triple…

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Backer Barred A.J.C. Autumn Meeting Court Supports Club Sydney

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

Stating that in respect of certain wagers he "stood to win £30,000," Francis Joseph Cook, of South Yarra, to-day applied to Mr. Justice Nicholas, in…

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Interests Clash Mayor as Golf Club Secretary Supreme Court Ruling Sydney

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

Mr. Acting Justice Owen, in the Supreme Court to-day found that the Mayor of Port Macquarie who was Secretary of a golf club, had pecuniary interest in a…

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Police Olympic Rowing Crew SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 1

The Australian Jockey Club has donated £50 to the fund which has as its object the sending of the police Olympic rowers to Berlin. Other…

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Darwin Supreme Court Darwin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 6

The Darwin Supreme Court sittings will open on Tuesday. Cases listed are Bullfrog Jack and Peter for murder—Bullfrog Jack for the murder of Matrais Hadii Bin…

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Murder Charge Man Committed for Trial "Tried to Protect Woman" Melbourne

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

The Deputy Coroner (Mr. Moore) committed Harry White, 59, labourer, for trial at the Bendigo Supreme Court on a charge of having murdered William…

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Cost About £8000 Remodelling City Hotel Court Gives-approval

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 16

The Licensing Court has given approval for a remodelling scheme for the George Hotel, Newcastle, to cost nearly £8000. The alterations will make the…

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Application of Awards Non-unionists Not Included Arbitration Court Ruling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 6

In delivering judgment on a dispute between the Metal Trades Employees' Association and other employers on the one side, and the Federated Iron Workers'…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 6

Brought before Mr. J. T. Tarn, J.P, at Newcastle Police Court, on Saturday, on a charge of having stolen a suitcase and an overcoat at Newcastle. Edward…

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Kopit in Court in Brisbane Charged with Mail Train Murder Brisbane

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 3

Herbert Kopit (23), laborer, appeared to-day in the police court charged with having, on April 2, in a carriage of the mall train between…

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Boy's Throat Cut Mother Charged With Murder Tragedy at Bowral Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 8

With his throat cut, Reginald Beaumont Morgan 14, was found dead, at the home of his parents at Bowral yesterday. His mother was in another part…

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Car Stealing Charge Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 6

At the Central Court, to-day, Charles William Blaird, 39, an accountant, was charged by warrant with having, at Kogarah, on April 4, stolen a car valued…

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Young Hunter Shot 15-Year-Old Boy Charged ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 8

With shotgun pellets in his cheek and in the upper part of his body, John Petersen, a youth who had been on a kangaroo hunting expedition, was admitted to…

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Brutal Murder American Authoress Found Strangled in Bath New York, April 11

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 8

Mrs. Nancy Titterton, well-known writer of juvenile stories under the pen name of Nancy Evans, was found brutally murdered in the bath at her apartment…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 4

At Newcastle Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. T. Tarn, J.P., Harry Briggs, 23, labourer, who was charged with having unlawfully taken a car at Kilaben Bay,…

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Much-travelled Magistrate

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 9

The former Chief Magistrate of London, Sir Chartres Biron, who seems ever-youthful, though he is now 73, having left his Knightsbridge home,…

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Theft of Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 8

For having stolen 561bs. of coal, the property of the Commissioner for Railways, Thomas Thomas (32), seaman, was fined £1 at Newcastle Police…

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Court Crowded Appearance of Kopet Mail Train Murder Charge Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 5

The Central Police Court and its precinets were crowded this mooning when Herbert Kopet, 23, appeared on remand from Melbourne, charged with the murder…

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Posed As Police

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 9

At an early hour one morning recently four gangsters impersonating police officers, knocked at the door of premises in the Boulevard de la…

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