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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 189

Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 11

Gordon Graham McCulloch, of Kurri Kurri, was granted a transfer of the licence of the Kurri Kurri Hotel from Charles Braben Mellords…

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Solicitor Brought From Gaol Bankruptcy Questions Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 5

Brought from Long Bay Gaol, Alexander Stanley Gourlay, a former solicitor, to-day appeared before the Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. Keaney)…

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Held Up Bank Gaol and Whipping Ordered ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 11

Frank de Villiers, 20, was sentenced to four years' imprisonment and a whipping of 10 strokes by Mr. Justice Richards in the Criminal Court at Adelaide…

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MAITLAND—CESSNOCK—KURRI West Maitland Police Court Maitland Carrier Convicted (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 11

Fines and costs amounting to £12/2/7 were imposed on Jack Power, of West Maitland, when he was convicted at the Maitland Police Court yesterday on…

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Newcastle Courts Tuesday, March 16 (Before Mr. N. L. Sheridan.) Six Months' Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 7

Convicted on a charge of having stolen at Boolaroo, on March 7, £8, an over coat and a blazer coat, of a total value of £9, the property of Harry Ruddell,…

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For Trial Maddocks Committed Charge of Assault Youth Declines to Give Details SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 9

The Central Police Court was filled to-day when Sydney Aubrey Maddocks, 56, public servant, was committed for trial on a charge of having indecently assaulted…

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Licensing Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 7

The licence of the Criterion Hotel, Islington, was transferred from Claude Henry Wright to John David Berkeley; and the licence of the Commercial Hotel,…

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Mrs. Brady in the Box Claim Against Police Officers Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 5

Grace Mary Brady, wife of Patrick Brady, said in the Banco Court to-day that when she took a flat at North Sydney…

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Strikers Routed Barricaded in Hospital Police Smash Way in New York, March 16

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 9

Policemen, with drawn pistols, amid scenes of the wildest disorder, routed 132 strikers, barricaded in rooms at a hospital…

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For Motor-cars Speed Register Invented Settle Court Disputes London, March 16

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 10

The Milan correspondent of "The Times" states that Father Alfani, Director of the Florence Observatory, has invented a motor-car speed register, by…

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Police Court Married Couple Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 11

Phillip Bowes, 27, and Kathleen Bowes, 21, were charged before Messrs. E. M. Devenham and A. H. Ribee, Js.P., at the West Maitland Police Court, yesterday…

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Theft of Timber

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 2

John Herbert Barker, 55, a pensioner, was fined £2, in default four days' imprisonment, for having, at Newcastle, on March 17, stolen a quantity of timber,…

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Magistrate Warns Cyclists "No Hanging On"

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 1

A warning to cyclists was issued by Mr. Soane, S. M., at Newcastle Summ[?] Court to-day. Under the Metropolitan Traffic Act…

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Police Court Wednesday, March 17 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 2

On a charge of having unlawfully used a car without the consent of the owner, Norman Rochester, at Newcastle, on February 25, Joseph Hunter, 26, a labourer,…

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Taken From Gaol Former Solicitor Bankrupt SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 4

Alexander Stanley Gourlay, a former solicitor, who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment on a number of charges involving misappropriation of…

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Kurri Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Betting Charges Adjourned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 11

Edward Richards and Alfred Thomas, residents of Cessnock, were charged at the Kurri Kurri Police Court, yesterday, with having, on March 14, accepted a bet…

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Detective's Denial of Assault Story Scene at Arrest Conspiracy Charges Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 10

When the trial of Guy Paul McDonald, 46, manager, and John Henry Davidson, 48, salesman, on a charge of…

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Tom Mooney to Stay in Gaol California Senate Rejects Pardon Sacramento

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 1

The Senate rejected by 34 votes to 5 a Lower House resolution to pardon Thomas Mooney. who has served 21 years of a life sentence for…

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Licensing Court Alterations to Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 2

Toohey's Ltd. was granted permission to make alterations, at an estimated cost of £3700. to the Central Hotel. It was stated that the alterations included the…

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Negligent Driving Alleged Motorist in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 9

At Newcastle Summons Court to-day, Charles J. McCaffrey. Cross Key's Hotel, Tighe's Hill, was chanted with having driven in a…

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