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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1937

3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 189

Wife Got Suspicious Court Story of "Police" Raid Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 9

Men posing as police engaged in checking starting price betting raided a house and stole £80, it was alleged…

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Kurri Police Court Before Mr. C. G. CARR-BOYD, P.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 11

Bernard Conlon, of Barton-street, Kurri Kurri, was fined 30/, in default three days' imprisonment, at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday, on a charge…

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Company Charged Evasion of Customs Duties PERTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 10

Sixteen charges, involving £633/3/10, representing the sum alleged to have been evaded as Customs duties, were laid by the Customs Department against…

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Police Court Wednesday, January 13 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Further Remand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 3

A further remand to January 20 was granted in the case in which Cecil Coghill Maddrell, 54, a labourer, was charged with having obtained food relief by false…

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Papuan Police "No Gari."

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 8

Although they were told that the task was dangerous and that some of them might not come back, members of the Native Constabulary of Papua were…

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State Ministers Charged with Corruption West Australian Inquiry Opens Perth

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 9

A stir was caused when the Royal Commission to-day opened an inquiry into charges of bribery and corruption against State Ministers…

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Assault Charge Woman's Story of Struggle Man Committed for Trial Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 8

On a charge of having with criminal intent assaulted Mrs. Ethel Edith Smith at Darlington on Christmas Eve, Frederick John Asher, 25, a labourer, was…

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Police Changes Reorganisation of Force SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 8

Approval was given by the Executive Council to-day to a number of important promotions in connection with the reorganisation of the police force…

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New York Murder Two Negroes Arrested New York, January 13

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 10

Two negro porters have been arrested in connection with the death of Mrs. Frank Case, 25, whose body was found in an overflowing bathtub in a fourth-floor…

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Man Arrested Murder of Girl in Peking PEKING, January 12

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 10

The police have detained a man, whose nationality has not been stated, on a charge concerning the murder of Pamela Werner…

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Street Snapshot Led to Solution of Murder Films Shown on Screen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 6

The inside story of Scotland Yard's first use of the cinema in detection can now be told with the close of the Old Bailey trial of Alfred Stratford…

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Three Bee Hives Were Stolen Reports to Police

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 9

Articles reported stolen to the police since yesterday include a variety ranging from bee hives to a parrot. The theft of three bee hives was…

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Cabinet Will Decide Brothers' Fate Murder of Fossicker at Rockley Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 9

Sentences of death passed on Thomas Michael Ryan and Denis M. Ryan, brothers, for the murder of Robert Andrew MacKenzie at Rockley,…

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"Victim" Alive Police Hopes Shattered Identification of Skeleton Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 9

Police hopes for the identification of the skeleton found in a mine shaft at Wedderburn, were shattered to-day, when E. J. Murray, whom the police had…

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Motor Thief Escaped by Bold Ruse Went "To Call Police"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 8

Newcastle police are searching for a man who escaped from a stolen car at Adamstown by barefaced impudence a few days ago…

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Police Withdraw Motor Strike in U.S. Quiet Replaces Violence Flint, January 13

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 9

The police withdrew from the Fisher motor body plant to-day, leaving the strikers in possession. Company officials have issued a statement expressing…

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Police Won't Eject Stay-In Strikers Grimmett's Chance Against England at Hobart Hobart

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 1

Veteran Clarrie Grimmett's appearance against the Englishmen at Hobart to-morrow, with its remote possibilities of…

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Parties Agree Injunction to Continue Labour Paper Control Proceedings in Equity Court SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 10

In the Equity Court to-day, parties to the dispute over the election of directors of the "Labor Daily" agreed to a continuation of the injunction restraining…

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Negro Charged Murder of Young Bride Evidence Accumulates (Australian Associated Press.) New York, January 13

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 12

An accumulation of evidence has convinced the authorities that "Major" Green, a negro porter, is guilty of the murder of Mrs. Frank Case, the young…

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Month's Gaol for False Pretences

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 5

On ten charges of having obtained money by false pretences, by falsely representing that he had a lawful right to sell "Current Problems" magazine,…

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