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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 184

In the Courts Alleged Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 8

Mary Simmons, 35, was charged before Mr. Soane, S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court to-day, with having stolen £17 in money, the property of…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Tampered with Gas Meter

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

Thomas Edward Thorley pleaded "Guilty" at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday to a charge of having fully prevented a gas meter from…

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Licensing Court Booth Licences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 5

Alton Thomas Cusick, of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted booth licences for Newcastle races, on March 17…

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Police Chief Dead Ottawa, March 7

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 10

Major-General J. H. MacBrien, Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, has died. He served in the South African War…

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Small Debts Court Telephone Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 5

In an ex-parte matter between the Post-master-General and Royal G. Furey and Arthur K. Du Chateau, trading as Morris Auctions, a verdict for £13/7/, with 17/6…

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Traffic Police White Coats Opposed SYDNEY

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

Adoption of the suggestion that traffic police should wear white coats at night would prove dangerous, said the Traffic Superintendent, (Mr. Hooper). Better…

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White Coats for Traffic Police Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 6

White coats on traffic policemen at night had been proved not only useless, but dangerous to motorists, who had been unable to see pointsmen's signals, the…

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Many Are Still Unclaimed Bicycles At Police Station

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 1

Despite dozens of Inspections few of the bicycles In the collection held at the Newcastle police-station have been claimed…

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Police Man-hunt for Farley Gunman Did Night Officer See Attacker? Police Hopes Many Puzzling Features of Station Shooting

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 1

With Cyril Clive Maher, 35, night officer at Parley railway station, victim of last night's mystery shooting affray, putting up a desperate fight for life in Maitland Hospital, a large force of Newcastle,…

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Court Actions Preliminary Inquiries Suggestion by Judges Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 17

While he was hearing a case in Chambers to-day, Mr. Justice Halse Rogers suggested the appointment of a judge of arbitration who would learn what…

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Maxim Gorky "Medical Murder" of Writer Doctor Confesses Sixth Day of Moscow Trial (Australian Associated Press.) MOSCOW, March 8

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

The sixth day of the treason trial opened to-day with a sensational confession by Dr. Levin, Director of the Kremlin Hospital, to the…

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Theft of Wine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 4

Eric Jackson, or Johnson, 27, painter, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen, at Newcastle, on March 8, a decanter, of wine, valued at £1 the property…

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Maltese in Court Attempted Murder Charge SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 4

A charge of having attempted to murder Angela Tuema at Pendle Hill yesterday, was preferred against Joseph Micallef 66, in Maltese farmer, at the…

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Missed Kiss and Went to Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 12

A kiss he tried to get from Sonja Henle-in vain—landed skating fan Thomas Condon, aged 27, in gaol for 30 days…

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Police Court Wednesday, March 9 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Remanded

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 4

Mary Simmions, 35, was remanded to March 16, on £30 bail, on a charge of having stolen, at Newcastle, on March 4, £17, the property of Robert James,…

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Kurri Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.) Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 11

Ronald McDonald, of Weston, was charged at the Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday with having a used indecent language. A fine of £2, with 8/ costs, in…

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Food for Parents Boy's Excuse for Theft PERTH

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

A 16-year-old boy pleaded "Guilty" in the Children's Court to-day to having stolen a ring valued at £8, but he declared that he took the ring to get food…

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Victim of Farley Shooting Dies in Hospital Three Youths Before the Court Remand on Attempted Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 1

Three youths, one aged 18 and the others 17, appeared in West Maitland Police Court to-day on charges arising out of the shooting of Cyril Clive Maher, night officer at Farley railway station, on…

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Capital Charge Young Man for Trial Girl Alleges Assault Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 11

Ball of £500 was allowed Stanley Fish, 22, a labourer, at the North Sydney Police Court to-day, when he was committed for trial on a charge of having committed…

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Licensing Court Additions to Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 4

Thomas Lesile Fines was granted permission to make additions, at a cost of £250, to the Esplanade Hotel, Newcastle. The additions comprise a lavatory,…

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