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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 189

Fined for Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 15

William Smith, 24, a labourer, was fined £5, in default 10 days' imprisonment, on a charge of having stolen, at Newcastle, £3/4/, property of Sidney Weaver…

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Fined for Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 11

James Norman, of the Soldiers' Settlement, Kurri Kurri, pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of having assaulted Allen Young on January. 13. Mr. W. J. Enright…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd.) Man and Wife Gaoled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 11

Reginald Lloyd, 30, and Stella Lloyd, 28, on remand, from Tamworth, were charged at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday with having at Kurri Police Court…

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Police Court Wednesday, February 3 Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m. Further Remands

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 15

David Counti Green, 32, a labourer, was further remanded to March 3, on the following charges—At Merewether, on December 10, drove a car in Hall-street while…

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Quarter Sessions Five Men Sent to Gaol Conspiracy Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 5

Fire men who had pleaded "Guilty" to charges of breaking and entering were sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment by Judge Nield at Newcastle…

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Dismissed" Police Appeals Heard by Judge White Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 9

The power of the S.P. Commissioner to effect the dismissals of policemen would be contested, said Mr. Shand, at…

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Hard Court Player Sheriff's Win at Learmonth Park

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 13

J. Sheriff, the ex-Sydney hard court player, made his first appearance in competitive games at Learmonth Park last…

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Court Defied Strikers Stay in Plants Bloodshed Expected Additional Troops Arrive (Australian Associated Press.) FLINT (Michigan), February 3

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 9

The strikers occupying two of the General Motors plants have decided to defy an order by Judge Gadola to vacate the works within…

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Two Men Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 6

Charges of having stolen a bicycle valued at £7, the property of Thomas Harold Giddes at Singleton, on February 1, were preferred against Victor…

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Police Court Thursday, February 4 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Fruiterer Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 3

Leslie Arthur Waldorff, 41, a fruiterer, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having had in his possession, at Adamstown, on February 3, 10cwt of coal, reasonably…

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Police Promotions Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 10

It was announced to-day that the Executive Council had given approval to a number of police promotions. These were as follows—…

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Industrial Court Bakers Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 3

References to a bread "war" were made in eases in which Wallsend bakers were fined for breaches of the Bakers' Award and the Day Baking Act…

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Youth Confesses Murder of Doctor New York, February 4

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 12

Robert Kenyon, described by police at Willow Springs (Missouri) as a hoodlum from a nearby village, led the authorities to the body of Dr. J. B. Davis, 67,…

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Bondsman's Complaint Man on Remand Before Court

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 1

Last week in Newcastle Police Court Robert John McDonald, 24, laborer, who denied that a police record card…

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Small Debts Court Claim for Refund and Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 3

A verdict for the full amount claimed and 8/ costs was awarded to the plaintiff in the adjourned matter in which Cyril John Amour, of Wentworth-street…

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Shot Airman Spurned Woman in Court Decided to Commit Suicide Paris, February 3

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 11

Examined by the Magistrate at Versailles, Madame Schmeder Chapellot, who fired at and Wounded a French airman. M. Lallemont, on November 30 in an…

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Man's Admission in Divorce Court Better to Own Up, He Told Judge Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 February 1937 · page 5

Admission that he had committed misconduct with his brother's wife was made by a co-respondent in the Divorce Court to-day. "I realised that…

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Cycle Stealing Charges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 16

On two charges of the theft of bicycles, at Singleton, on February 1, and Newcastle, on December 29. Victor Wilson, 20, a labourer, was remanded until…

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Police Court Friday, February 5 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Admonished and Discharged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 16

Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having travelled in a railway carriage between Wickham and Teralba without having paid his fare, on February 4, Philip Sandstrom,…

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Bankruptcy Court Examination Adjourned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 16

The public examination of Reavley Wells Smailes, of King-street. Adamstown, was adjourned until February 19 by the Deputy Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. M. E…

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