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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 184

Police Court Wednesday, April 6 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Enter Into Bond

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 3

Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen a tent valued at £2, the property of the Railway Commissioner, at Wyong on February 1, John Henderson, 41,…

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Industrial Court Information Dismissed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 3

Upholding a submission by Mr. H. L. O'Neill (Messrs. Johnson and O'Neill) for the defence, that there was no evidence that the carter did any business for his…

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Record of Crime Judge's Warning to Prisoner Sentenced at Lismore Lismore

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 12

Sentence of 2½ years' hard labour, to date from the time of his arrest on October 23 last, was imposed on Robert Walker, 29, at the Lismore Quarter…

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Police Car in Collision Nobody Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 1

A police wireless patrol car driven by Constable C. Ward was severely damaged in a collision with another car at New Lambton shortly after 11…

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Strange Testaments in Probate Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 10

Because of the fear that to make a will is to tempt death, estates worth more than £2,600,000 were left last year by persons in New South Wales, who died intestate. Thus a…

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Agents of Russia Jews Charged in Poland Spreading Propaganda London, April 5

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 9

Thirty-nine persons, including 26 Jews and nine women, have been charged in Poland as agents of the Comintern, says the Warsaw correspondent of "The Times."…

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Circuit Court Civil Cases Listed First

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 11

The Maitland Circuit Court will begin at the East Maitland Courthouse on April 21 before Mr. Justice Davidson Mr. T. S. Crawford will be Crown…

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Divorce Court Ten Undefended Cases Newcastle Sitting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 2

Ten undefended divorce cases were dealt with by Mr. Acting Justice Edwards at the Divorce Court, which began its sitting in Newcastle yesterday. A decree nisi,…

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Rail Commissioner Loses Appeal High Court Judgment Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 11

The High Court this afternoon dismissed the appeal of the Commissioner for Railways from a Judgment of the State Pull Court, affirming a verdict…

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To See Liner Big Melbourne Crowd Difficult Police Task Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 10

Police declared to-night that the crowd which visited the Empress of Britain to-day was the largest they had handled. It was estimated that 300,000 people…

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Crowd Chaos Rectified at Cricket Ground Forty Police On Duty SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 13

Criticism or the chaos among the crowd of 70,000 at the children's Anniversary festival yesterday produced action to-day when the festival was…

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Launch Proprietor Is Ruined the Rodney Disaster Court Reserves Decision Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 11

Charles Henry Rosman, master of the ferry Rodney, was called upon to-day to show cause why his licence as a ferrymaster should…

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Broker in Court "Fudge and Nonsense" Counsel's View of Case Adelaide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 9

A statement by his counsel that the case was "nothing more than fudge and nonsense," was made in the City Court to-day, when Frank Savage, stock and…

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Tin Clippings Wharfmen's Ban on Cargo for Japan Court May Be Approached Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 April 1938 · page 10

A number of exporters are considering making an application to the Federal Arbitration Court to enforce wharf labourers to handle tin clippings for export to…

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Gaol for Shoplifting Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 20

Mary Keevers, 63, domestic duties, was sentenced at the Central Police Court to a month's gaol on five charges of shoplifting. She was alleged to have…

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Police Court Thursday, April 7 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Illegal Betting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 3

Charles Leonard McDonald, 40, labourer, was fined £10, in default 20 days' imprisonment, for having committed a breach of the Totalisator Act at Hamilton on…

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Loyalty in Police Force

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 8

"True loyalty requires deeds to make it of real value to the police and the public for whom they stand. That means a readiness to stand by one…

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Scandal in Rumania Notables in Gold Stealing Plot London

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 1

Arrested, with highly-placed Rumanians, for complicity in a gold-smuggling plot. Alexander Buzdagen, son of a former chief…

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Ten Years' Gaol St. George Manslaughter Sentence BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 14

Found guilty at Goondiwindi last Friday, Harold Thomas Mullen, 37, was to-day sentenced by the Chief Justice (Sir James Blair) to imprisonment for 10 years…

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Remanded at Guyra Attempted Murder, Charge Guyra

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 April 1938 · page 1

Joseph Fraser, 45, bricklayer, was remanded until April 16 at the Guyra Court to-day on a charge of having wounded…

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