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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 46 of 184

Broker Involved in Charge of Gold Stealing Adelaide

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 7

Echoes of the Bendigo Central Blue Gold Mine case, which caused a sensation recently, were heard in the Adelaide Police Court to-day, when…

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Bogus Flier Gaol for False Pretences SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 8

Pleading "Guilty" at the Burwood Police Court to-day to charges of larceny and false pretences, Norman James Bryson, 26, was sentenced to 18 months'…

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Refused Undertaking To Stay in Police Court Man and Wife in Custody Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 8

Because they refused to give an undertaking to remain in the Water Police Court for a quarter of an hour when they were remanded by Mr. Laidlaw, L.M.,…

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Police Court Damaged Plate-Glass Windows (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 9

Sidney Harold Beckett was charged at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday with having been drunk and with having damaged two plate-glass windows and two…

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Police Court Monday, April 4 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.m.) Fireman Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 5

"You are fortunate that you are not charged with impersonation," said the Magistrate, in fining Stephen John McCarthy, 42, a fireman, £1, in default two…

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Nightwatchman Was Stabbed He Disturbed Men Stealing Cement Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 1

Detectives are investigating a sensational story of assault told early to-day by John Short, a nightwatchman, of. Alderson-street, Redfern…

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Driver's Licence Cancelled Magistrate's Ruling in Taxi Case Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 7

It is not necessary to endanger anyone's life to be convicted of driving at a speed dangerous to the public. Mr. Farrington, S.M., ruled in the…

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Three Years' Gaol Assaults on Women in Parks SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 8

Found guilty of robbery, John Degnan, 35, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by Judge Sheridan at the Quarter Sessions to-day…

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Annual Social Of Police Association

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 1

The Secretary of the N.S.W. Police Association (Mr. Cosgrove) and Detective-Sergeant W. Wakins President of the N.S.W. Police Association photographed al the annual social of the Newcastle Police Association at the Newcastle Masonic Hall last night…

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Posed As Airman Sent to Gaol for 18 Months Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 4

Stated by the police to have falsely represented himself as a flight-lieutenant in the Royal Australian Air Force, Norman James…

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Tried to Cash £100 Note Sequel to Theft From Bank Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 7

Following yesterday's theft of £853 from the Elizabeth-street branch of the Commercial banking Company of Sydney, detectives have been told that…

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Defence of Police Spirited Reply to Criticism

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 1

In the past 12 or 18 months the New South Wales Police Force had been subjected to perhaps one of the most vicious…

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Atrocious Murder Society Girl and Her Mother Van Horn (Texas)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 4

An atrocious double murder was revealed to-day when the half nude bodies of a mother and her daughter, who are prominent…

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Theft in Bank Solicitor Loses £153 Pass Books Grabbed Cheques for £687 Taken, But Payment Stopped SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 7

A Castlereagh-street solicitor lost £153 in a robbery in the Elizabeth-street branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney this…

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Police Defended Officials Outspoken in Newcastle "Vicious Attacks" Commissioner's Salary Discussed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 6

A vigorous defence of the police force was made by the President of the New South Wales Police Association (Mr. W. Watkins) and the Secretary (Mr. C…

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Lottery Share Postal Official Disbelieved Equity Court's Verdict Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 8

The hearing was concluded before Mr. Justice Nicholas, in the Equity Court to-day of the case in which William Herbert Chapman a postal official of Orange,…

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Oil Cos. Go to Court Against Eviction Mexico City

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 7

Seventeen foreign oil companies which were expropriated by the Government have petitioned the Federal Court to invalidate the expropriation…

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Surf Costumes Displayed in High Court Jantzen's Appeal Case SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 7

Surfing costumes of all colors and designs, even to the most abbreviated, littered the High Court to-day during the hearing of an appeal by…

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Industrial News Abandon Jurisdiction Federal Court Asked Butchers' Shops and Small Goods Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 8

The Full Arbitration Court was asked by the Meat Industry Employees' Union to-day to abandon its jurisdiction over retail butchers' shops, smallgoods shops,…

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Story Told in Court of Tribal War Natives on Trial Extraordinary Endurance Darwin

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 April 1938 · page 7

Large ugly-looking spears, some 20 feet long, were shown in Court to-day during the hearing of a native murder case…

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