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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 184

OVER 300 POLICE Control Sunday's Crowds Careful Preparation Public Cooperation Desired

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 8

Three-hundred policemen and five inspectors, divided into four groups, will control the big crowds expected at the Eucharistic Congress procession on…

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Hitler Stampedes Austrians Into Political Surrender Pro-Nazi Cabinet Nazi Sympathiser to Control the Police Vienna

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 7

By means of threats, Hitler appears to have scored a re-sounding victory in Austria where the personnel of the re-constructed Cabinet weighs heavily in favor of the Nazis. A German demonstration of armed force in the guise of…

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Bombing 'Planes Use for Police Purposes British Ban Sought Limit Only by Pact, Says Prime Minister (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, February 14

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 February 1938 · page 10

The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) was asked in the House of Commons to-day to give an assurance, as an example to other nations, that the Government…

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Demsey Murder Trial Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 1

Jurors empanelled in the Demsey murder trial, which will begin in the Criminal Court on Monday, may be absent from their homes for a…

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Police Court Wednesday, February 16 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 14

A remand to February 21 was granted in the cases in which Thomas Quainne, 55, labourer, was charged with having stolen at Mayfield, on February 15, a…

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Slept at Police Station

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 1

Samuel Walls, 45, laborer, who made his 120th appearance at the Newcastle Police Court to-day, on a charge of drunkenness was discharged by Mr…

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Case of Seaman in N.z. Gaol Early Release Sought

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 9

The Northern district members of Parliament have written to the Newcastle Labor Council, stating that they have asked the New Zealand Minister…

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Labourer Acquitted Alleged Assault in Hotel Bar Jury Stopped Case Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 5

John Joseph Finnie, 32, a labourer, was acquitted at the Quarter Sessions to-day on a charge of having assaulted Gerald Vincent Patrick Reilty…

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1000 PRISONERS "Sit-down" Strike in U.S. Gaol. CONCORD, (Mass.), February 15

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 11

Following an unsuccessful attempt by 300 to escape 1000 prisoners at the Concern Reformatory started a "sit-down" strike refusing to leave their cells…

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"Mussolini Insulted" Prelude to Assault on Italian Cruiser Taxi-driver Hit on Head Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 15

Otlavid Frigo Orlando, an Italian taxi-driver reported to the police last night that a sailor aboard the Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli and struck him…

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Trawler Blamed by Court Collision with Liner at Sea

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 10

Responsibility for the collision between the passenger liner Wanganella and the steamer trawler Durraween off the south coast of New South Wales…

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Japanese Ship Master and Crew in Court SINGAPORE, February 16

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 11

The master and eight of the crew of the Japanese ship Anyo, Maru[?] were charged at the Marine Court at Singapore to-day with having left the harbour…

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Collided in Mist Wanganella and Trawler Marine Court Inquiry Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 5

The collision between the interstate passenger vessel Wanganella and the trawler Durraween off Montague Island early on December 28 was the subject of a Marine…

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Precarious Finances of "Labor Daily" Lang's Plea to Court Dispute Is Deferred Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 9

Statements that the financial position of The Labor Daily Ltd, was precarious, and that the company had only been kept going…

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Police Court Thursday, February 17 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Theft of Petrol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 14

William Leopold Dundas, 22, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen, at Newcastle, on January 19, 30 gallons of petrol, valued at £2/11/3, the…

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Angry Crowd Assault on Italian Cruiser Melbourne Protest Police Prevent Trouble MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 7

Thorough preparations by police to-night forestalled demonstrators who had indicated their intention of holding a meeting of protest…

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Pacific Highway Accident Builder Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 7

Further evidence was heard at the Newcastle Police Court today in the case in which John Francis McCloy (42), builder, was charged with having…

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Open Hearth v. POLICE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 20

The B.H.P. open hearth team defeated the Police at Broadmeadow yesterday afternoon, by 41 runs. The open hearth team scored 124 and the police 83 Best…

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Prisoner Pleads for Leniency May Go Mad in Gaol Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 7

"I can't go through with it. I could not stand any more—I'd go mad. I'd rather hang myself." declared Albert Westerman (42), sobbing bitterly before…

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The Police Celebrations and Earlier Years

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 5

The Minister-in-charge of the 150th anniversary celebrations (Mr. J. M. Dunningham), writes— Now that the first intensive period of…

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