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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 184

60 Stolen Bicycles Police Seeking Owners

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 1

An appeal to owners of bicycles to record the numbers and adequate descriptions of their machines so that ownership…

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"Marked Down" Italian Fears Murder and Flees BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 8

An Italian, reputed to have been "marked down" with Francesco Femio and Vincenso Dagostino, both of whom were murdered, has fled from the Ingham…

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Stenner's Success Form at Police Carnival SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 9

The former Newcastle athlete, S. G. Stenner, now a member of the New South Wales police force, was the outstanding athlete at the police athletic sports…

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Police Praised Work During Celebrations Carnival in Sydney Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 6

Public men enlogised the New South Wales Police Force during its carnival yesterday. The Governor (Lord Wakehurst) congratulating the police on their…

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MR. H. F. Hardacre Dead Former Legislator and Land Court Member BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 2

Mr. Herbert Freemont Hardacre, a former member of the Legislative Assembly and of the Land Court, died yesterday at the age of 78. He was Minister…

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Scott's Fund for Employees Who Went to War Equity Court Asked for Instructions Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 6

Twenty years after the end or the war aa employees patriotic fund in Newcastle now amounting to £1049 12s 7d is to be wound up…

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Charged with Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 10

Arthur Michael Moore, 40, labourer, was charged that, at Cook's Hill, on March 5, he unlawfully assaulted Mabel Caroline Joyce. On his promising to…

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Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 9

Clarence Conn, 21, was charged before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday with having stolen a bicycle valued at £5. He…

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Native in Court Assault on White Women Magistrate Warns Public Darwin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 8

A sequel to the assault on two white women by a native on Thursday was the appearance in the Police Court to-day, of an aboriginal named Packsaddle. He was…

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Police Court Monday, March 7 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Betting Offences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 10

For having used a place in Railway-street, Merewether, on March 5, for the purpose of betting, Herbert Ruddy, 33, labourer, was fined £15, in default 30…

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Ex-secretary Charged Alleged Failure To Affix Tax Stamps

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 7

In Maitland Quarter Sessions today, before Judge Nield, Allan Henderson appeared on a charge of having failed to affix unemployment relief…

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Industrial Court Breaches of Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 10

Palmerston Jones, of Corlette-street, Junction, was charged that between September 1 and October 1, 1937, he did not keep time and pay sheets properly written…

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Von Cramm Detained By Berlin Police BERLIN

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 8

The police have detained the tennis player von Cramm on suspicion of having violated paragraph 175 of the criminal code which deals with sexual…

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Swansea Bridge Collision Damage Claim in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 9

A collision between two cars on Swansea Bridge on the night of October. 2, 1937, was described by witnesses at the Newcastle Small Debts…

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Maltese Shot at Rendle Hill Suspect Detained By Police SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 7

Angel Teuma, 36, a Maltese, is in Parramatta Hospital with gunshot wounds as a result of a shooting incident to-day in West End Road,…

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Trade Diversion Federal Policy Valid High Court's Decision Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 8

The High Court, by a majority of four to two, to-day held that the Commonwealth Government's trade diversion policy was valid…

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Judge's Powers Legal Point Settled by High Court Punishment of Bankrupt Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 8

Determining a point which has been in doubt since the 'Federal Bankruptcy Court assumed the functions of the old State Insolvency Courts, the Full High…

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Patriotic Fund Equity Court's Problem Begun by Scott's Staff in 1917 SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 11

The Equity Court will shortly be asked to decide what is to be done with a patriotic fund established by the employees of Scott's Ltd., Newcastle, in…

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Cowardly Assault Two Years' Gaol for Man SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 11

Describing the assault as cowardly and brutal, Judge Curlewis, at the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions to-day, sentenced Harry Waters, 34, to two years'…

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Former Secretary Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 7

Allan Anderson, of Anzac-street, West Maitland, was charged that, between December 23, 1932, and November 3, 1933, at West Maitland, being the public…

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