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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 184

Police Theory Two Men Committed Bomb Outrage Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 9

Detectives investigating the bomb outrage at Lidcombe last Friday are now convinced that at least two men were implicated. To-night the police appealed…

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N.Z. Murder Charge Aged Man Battered in Shop Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 12

Randall Reginald David Smith, 26, was charged at Timaru to-day with the murder of William Gaby, 70, at Arundel, on September 10…

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Youth Sent for Trial on Murder Charge Death of Typist Coroner Talks of Jealousy Katoomba

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 1

Committing Ronald Stewart Young (21), for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered June Clemenger (20). a typist at the…

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Police Defer Arrest Plans Lidcombe Bomb More Evidence To Be Sought SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 1

A change of police plans concerning the bombing outrage at Lidcombe last Friday was decided on last night, and as a result, an…

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Theft of Clothing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 6

Joseph Patrick Kimsey, 23, labourer, was fined £5, in default 10 days' imprisonment, for having stolen, at Newcastle, on February 1, a suit of clothes…

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Albury Murder Man Released from Gaol Thought He Could Help Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 11

A prisoner was recently released from gaol to enable him to see a woman whom he thought knew the murdered girl whose pyjama-clad body was found near Albury…

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Ownership of a Battery Apprentice Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 8

Further evidence was heard at the Newcastle Police Court to-day in the charge against Leslie Wood, 20, apprentice, which came before the Court…

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Cool Theft Made by a Woman Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 1

Darlinghurst detectives are investigating the audacious theft by a woman of jewellery and clothing from a woman guest at an hotel at King's Cross…

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Sent Back to Gaol Released Youth Took Horse

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 7

Released from gaol on Monday, Lyle William Johns, 18, laborer, took a horse and was heading for Queensland yesterday…

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Police Car in Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 10

Inspector G. S. McDougall, of Newcastle police, used his weight at Wallsend yesterday when a police car became bogged in Charles-street, opposite the…

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Police Court Thursday, February 3 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Had No Ticket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 6

For having travelled in a railway carriage between. West Maitland and Newcastle without having paid the fare, 1/5, on February 2, Bernard John Frazer, 25,…

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Small Debts Court Mortgagee's Rights

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 6

In the matter of the trustees of the Grand United Order of Free Gardeners of New South Wales and Roy Urwin, concerning property at Clarke-street,…

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Wages Tax Legality in Doubt Federal Awards Effect of Magistrate's Ruling SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 11

The decision of Mr. Harrison, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday that the wage tax was not deductible from wages paid…

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For Trial Young Man on Murder Charge Medlow Bath Tragedy Katoomba

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 12

Ronald Stewart Young, 24, was committed for trial today by the Coroner on a charge of having murdered June Clemenger, 20, whose body was found at…

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Police Riflemen Championship to N.S.W. SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 18

With an aggregate of 1839, New South Wales won the Commonwealth police rifle shooting championship at Anzac Rifle Range to-day. South Australia was…

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Child Hit by Car Police Search for Driver SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 11

Police are searching for the driver fro a car which knocked down Reginald Adamson, 3, of Darlington, in a lane at the rear of his home this afternoon. The…

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Powder Showered at Police Frenchwomen's Ruses To Get The Vote LONDON, January 15

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 8

One must admire the ingenuity of Mme. Louise Weiss, a French suffragist leader now visiting London, who, realising that militant methods were disliked not only by the men of France but by women suffragists,…

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Police Court Friday, February 4 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Youth Sent to Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 6

Lyle William Johns, 18, a labourer, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having unlawfully taken and used a horse, the property of Leslie…

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Unique Murder Mystery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 3

Robert Montgomery has made a courageous experiment that is a grand success in "Night Must Fall," a novel murder mystery with unusual story construction,…

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Jew Sentenced to Death Jerusalem, February 4

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 11

The first Jew sentenced to death by a military tribunal in Palestine is Ezekiel Altniann, 23, who was convicted of having set fire to an Arab lorry…

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