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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 54 of 189

Court Reform Mr. Roosevelt to Push Proposals Bitter Fight Forecast New Programme of Social Legislation (Australian Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 13

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 April 1937 · page 10

It is authoritatively stated that President Roosevelt has instructed Administration supporters in Congress to redouble their efforts for the enactment of his…

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Police Court Thursday, April 15 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remand in Stealing Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 4

James McKenna, 31, labourer, was charged with having stolen eight steel rails, valued at £24, the property of the Government, at Wickham, about February…

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Death Sentence Wife on Murder Charge Distressing Court Scene Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 12

In the Criminal Court to-day, Mr. Justice Dwyer passed sentence of death on Evelyn Florence Borrows, who had been found guilty of the murder of her…

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Motor Car Thief Sentenced Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 5

Sentence of three years' imprisonment was passed by Judge Betts at he Quarter Sessions to-day on Raymond Jones. 27. who was convicted…

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S. A. MADDOCKS Transfer to Goulburn Gaol SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 12

The former Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways, Sydney Aubrey Maddocks, 56, who was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment, at the Quarter…

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Teacher Freed Adventure on Big Liner Charged As Stowaway London, April 15

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 12

Jessie Jean Mattin, 22, a school-teacher, who had been charged with having stowed away in the Athlone Castle from South. ampton, was discharged to-day…

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Sent to Gaol for 23 Months Man Who Assaulted His Mother Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 5

James Kennedy (21) was sentenced at the Quarter sessions to-day to 23 months' imprisonment for having maliciously wounded his mother. Janet…

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Dates Fixed for Police Functions Newcastle Branch Meeting

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 7

It was announced at the monthly meeting of the Newcastle branch of the Police Association ol New South Wales last night that the annual…

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Verdict for Police Actor's Damages Claim SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 12

The claim of Arthur Shirley, an actor, for £400 damages from Detective-Sergeant Latrobe and Detective Robinson for alleged trespass and assault was concluded…

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Judge Objects to Laughter Rebuke in Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 5

When laughter broke out in the pubic gallery at the Quarter Sessions to-day, during the trial of a man on a serious charge, Judge Sheridan…

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Race Broadcasts High Court Appeal Company's Legal Rights Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 12

The Victoria Park Racing and Recreation Grounds Company Ltd., to-day appealed to the High Court from a judgment of Mr. Justice Nicholas refusing its…

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Drainage Rates To Be Struck Shortly Court to Hear Boundary Appeals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 10

Although no definite date will be fixed until preliminaries now in hand are completed, it is likely that the Cottage Creek and Throsby Creek drainage rates of 3d in…

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Bequest for Sons of G. H. Bosch Appeal to Court for More Than £10,000 SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 6

Leave to appeal to the Privy Council, on behalf of the infant children of the late George Henry Bosch was fronted in the Probate Court…

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Tear Gas Used Battle with Strikers at Detroit Police Gain Mastery Another Dispute Delays Liner (Australian Associated Press.) New York, April 15

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1937 · page 11

After a battle which lasted for half an hour, in which tear gas and lead weights were used, more than 300 policemen, sheriffs, and…

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Police Court Failed to Pay Fares

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1937 · page 13

Frank Gibson, 21, and Leslie John Woodgate, 26, were each fined £1, in default two days' hard labour, by Messrs. E. M. Debenham and A. H. Ribee, justices of…

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When a Man Walks Out Magistrate Says It's Desertion

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 17 April 1937 · page 8

"How can you call it desertion when a man walks out after his wife has been nagging him day after day and week after week?" demanded a…

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Four Sentenced Lismore Conspiracy Case Two Years for Husband Lismore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1937 · page 11

Peter Ehlefeldt, 36, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Ernest Bede Fitzgerald, 40, to 18 months, and Thomas William Stewart, 29, and Arthur Alan…

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Police Court Friday, April 16 Summons Division (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Case Adjourned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1937 · page 15

The case in which James Pearce, corner of Kemp and Smith Streets, Hamilton South, was charged with having been an unlicensed driver, on January 27, 1937,…

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Industrial Court Offences Admitted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1937 · page 15

Donald Archibald Geddes, an inspector under the Industrial Arbitration Act, proceeded against Thomas Gee, trading with another as Toong Sing, at 139…

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Unconscious on Roadside Police Suspect Hit-run Motorist

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 17 April 1937 · page 1

Newcastle police are searching for the driver of a car who, it is believed, will be able to tell them how Thomas Peterson, 51, was injured…

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