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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 184

Stab in Chest Man's Story to Police SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 15

When he attempted to prevent a man from entering his shop in Cleveland-street, Redfern, to-night, Lawrence Sullivan, 52, is alleged to have been stabbed in the…

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Tobacco Theft at Islington Haul Valued At £50

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 1

Thieves broke into a grocery shop at Islington last night and stole tobacco and cigarettes valued at £50. It was the biggest tobacco theft for…

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Police Court Summons Division (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Friday, February 11 Attacks by Dogs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 15

Evidence for the defendant was given yesterday in the part-heard case in which Albert Leslie Manning, of Tudor-street, Hamilton, was charged with having…

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Charge of Murder "Not Wilful, Accidental" IPSWICH

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

John Henry Geiger, 60, was charged at the Boonah Police Court to-day with the wilful murder of Alan Henry Dairymple, at Milford, yesterday…

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Parade Near Home Traffic Offenders Novel Police Campaign Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 11

Novel, moans, of impressing upon people the necessity of obeying traffic regulations in their entirety are to be employed by the police…

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Communist Schools Broken Up by Canadian Police MONTREAL, February 10

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

Provincial police, acting under the padlock law to suppress Communism, swooped down on two foreign language halls. They revealed Communist night schools of 80…

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Wearing of Trunks in Streets Police Unlikely to Prosecute Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 8

Police are not only reluctant to charge a person who wears only trunks in a public street with having acted in an indecent…

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Police Caution Risk of Wrongful Arrest New British Orders London, February 10

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

In answering a question in the House of Commons today, arising, out of a recent successful action in the Courts for damaged against the police for wrong…

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For One Day Court's Order Suspended Deregistration of Unions Sydney

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

Judge Beeby, in the Federal Arbitration Court, to-day suspended for one day the deregistration order, he recently made against the Amalgamated Engineering…

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£9721 MORE Mr. Lang's Claim Court to Be Moved Union Fund Was Oversubscribed SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 11

A new move by Mr. J. T. Lang in the "Labor Daily" dispute will lead to more Equity litigation. The fund to meet his debenture…

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Theft of Tobacco

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 6

After a lapse of several months, there was a recurrence of tobacco thieving at the week-end. Tobacco and cigarettes, valued at £50, were stolen from the…

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Totalisator Theft Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 9

Great daring was shown by a thief at Doomben racecourse yesterday, when he grabbed £40 from the doubles' totalisator window…

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Woolwich Arsenal Alleged Theft of Secrets Four Men Charged Case Continued in London (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, February 12

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 8

At the resumed hearing of the espionage charges against four former employees Woolwich Arsenal at the Bow-street Police Court to-day, evidence was given…

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Manslaughter Charged Traffic Tragedy on Western Highway Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 5

"No man with a spark of humanity would leave a victim lying on the ground and drive on unless he had good reason to protect his own hide"…

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Charlie Chan Mystery Murder at Gay Monte Carlo

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 2

Despite the many films in which he has been the central figure, or perhaps because of them, Charlie Chan is…

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Sentenced to Death Six Transport Workers Sabotage in Russia Moscow, February 12

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 7

The latest death sentences include six transport workers for sabotaging the Leningrad trolley-'bus system, causing a 'bus to fall in the river, drowning a…

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Keep Off the Balconies Police Will Be Firm

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 5

The Newcastle police will co-operate with the City Council on Sunday to prevent people attempting to see the Eucharistic…

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Boxer's Appeal to Referee to Stop Fight "This Is Murder," Exclaimed Leonard

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 8

"This is murder; why don't you stop the fight?" Jerry Leonard (10.3) made this appeal to the Referee (Mr. Harry Mack) in the ninth round of his…

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Trust Fund Labour Newspaper Unions Pending Court Decision Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 7

A special trust fund will probably be created to-morrow by unions holding shares in the "Labour Daily," and the additional £6700 claimed by Mr. J. T…

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Wrestling Threat of Arrest Manager Thrown from Ring Brisbane Police Intervene Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 12

Police threatened, to arrest George O'Brien in is wrestling contest against Ted Pickrang at the Bohemia Stadium last night. The referee was knocked out…

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