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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 189

For Trial Woman on Murder Charge Brisbane Hotel Quarrel Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 13

The hearing of evidence was concluded in the Police Court to-day in the case in which Alice Elizabeth Fein, 22, a domestic, was charged that on December…

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Hotelkeeper in Court Kept A Disorderly House

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 7

Remarkable allegations were made at a London Police Court recently by a woman hotel owner against a man whom, she asserted, she left in charge…

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Mine Shaft Mystery Police Ideas Are Changed Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 5

Detectives to-day abandoned the double murder and murder and suicide theory in the Wedderburn mine shaft mystery…

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Strange Coronation Ceremonies Court of Claims Will Hear Petitions

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 7

ONE of the most ancient tribunals, known as the Court of Claims, has resumed its sittings. For nearly 700 years, with the approach of each coronation, a court has been appointed to hear and determine the…

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Police Wireless Newcastle Installation Efficiency in Detection of Crime Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 12

A wireless service for Newcastle police district will be installed shortly, the Chief Secretary (Mr. F. A. Chaffey) said to-day…

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Air Rifles Are Now Banned Police Make First Seizure Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 3

The first air rifle to be seized by the police under the amendment to the Gun Act is now at the Paddington Police Station. It was confiscated…

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Industrial News Not Stop Work Ironworkers' Decision Approach to Court Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 15

As a result of a conference with the employers to-day, the Federated Ironworkers' Association has decided not to stop work, but to approach the Federal…

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Giant Negro Defies 20 Police All Day Showed Test Form in Fielding Tear Bombs London

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 1

Jim M'Boya, a stalwart native, waged war for 18 hours yesterday against 20 police who were attempting to arrest him, states the Cape Town correspondent of "The Times."…

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Theft From Mine

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 7

Pleading guilty, at West Maitland Police Court to-day, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., to having stolen brass piping and brass drain cocks from New…

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Cessnock Assault Charge "Victim in Hospital"

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 6

"The victim was so badly injured that he had to be taken to hospital," said Sergeant Good, when George Unwin (42), was charged in the…

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Gaol Gates Yawned Husband Saved Just in Time

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 1

Resigned to the prospect of two months in gaol, a man who appeared before Mr. Soane, S.M., at Newcastle…

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Ex-Magistrate Went Looking for Trouble and Found It MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 4

Three weeks ago Mr. F. P. Morris, former Melbourne Children's Court magistrate, announced that he was looking for trouble. Since then he has found so much that he is already planning to move from his room in the hall of St. Stephen's Church, Richmond, to a more convenient office in the city…

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Astounding Evidence at Moscow Trial Conspiracy to Partition Russia Charged Moscow

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 1

Karl Radek, lately chief leader-writes of "Izvestia," jested with death at his trial, along with 14 others who are accused of plotting to destroy the Soviet. Though clad in drab military tunic, he has been the most…

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Victorian Police Scotland Yard Man To Lead Early Appointment Likely Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 6

An announcement is expected shortly that Chief Inspector A. Duncan, of Scotland Yard, has been appointed Commissioner of Police in Victoria. He came to…

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"Earth Is Free" African Native's Claim Waged War with Police London, January 22

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 8

Jim Mboya, a stalwart native, waged war for 18 hours yesterday against 20 police who were attempting to arrest him, states the Cape Town correspondent…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 9

George Unwin, 42, was charged at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, before Mr. F. R. Wood, J.P., with having assaulted John Mooney, and occasioning…

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Theft From Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 9

Frederick John King. Conrad Gilbert and Johns Maher, of Greta, pleaded "Guilty" to having on December 20, at Greta stolen brass drain cocks and brass…

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Man Escapes Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 6

Probably due to his ignorance of Police Court procedure, a man narrowly escaped being sent to gaol for two months at Newcastle yesterday. The…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.). Offensive Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 9

Francis Daniel Bischoff 19, of West Maitland, and Maurice James Walsh, 22 at West Maitland, pleaded "Guilty" to haring behaved in no offensive manner…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 9

Peter George Kohler, previously licensee of the Terminus Hotel. Singleton. was granted a transfer of the licence of the Cessnock Hotel from Henry…

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