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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1938

3,665 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 184

Woman or Child in Robbery? Left House Neat After Jewel Theft SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 May 1938 · page 1

Jewellery valued at £200 was stolen from a house in Bay-street, Mosman. last night, and police believe that a woman or a child may have…

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Poisoning "Joke" Italian Before Court KALGOORLIE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 May 1938 · page 5

Felicia Armanaca, 34, an Italian miner, was charged yesterday with having poisoned two people. The charge arose from an intended joke at an a Easter…

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Judges of Court Interviewed Mayor Seeks to Settle Strike

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 May 1938 · page 5

The Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Aid. A. Griffiths), who has been interesting himself in the possibilities of a settlement of…

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Sudeten German Shot in Leg by Police Arrests Follow Clash London, April 30

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 May 1938 · page 8

The Prague correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that a Sudeten German Was shot in the leg in a clash with police on the outskirts of Bratislava…

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A Mother's Claim to Child Her Appeal to Equity Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 May 1938 · page 5

Married in India on June 20. 1036. and now only 21 years of age, attractive Margaret Alica Ida Gertrude Bonnaud to-day asked Mr. Justice…

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Woman Sentenced For Theft SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 8

Rene Spratt. 48. domestic duties, whom the Police Prosecutor said had 250 convictions, was sentenced to two months' gaol by Mr. Reed, S.M., at…

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£200 Jewellery Theft Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 3

A thief who entered the home of Mr. W. A. Neary in Mosman on Sunday night stole jewellery, valued at £200. It included a diamond ring worth £75…

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West Maitland Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 12

Owing to the Maitland Circuit Court sitting at East Maitland to-day, the cases [?]sted for hearing at the West Maitland Police Court were…

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Woman for Trial Intent to Murder Charge SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 11

Norma Woods, 28, a domestic, was to-day committed for trial from the Paddington Police Court on a charge of having feloniously wounded Martin Finlay with…

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Women Police Proposed New Zealand Unit Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 11

The Minister for Health (Mr. P. Fraser) to-day told a deputation from the women's branch of the Labour party that he considered the time opportune for the…

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Hoaxed the Police Boy's Wild Tale About 'Plane Bathurst

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 7

With a fictitious story that a 'plane had crashed in the bush near Pillaga, a boy led police on a search for a day and a night,…

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"Kiss Caused Accident" Court Rejects Motorist's Excuse MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 3

Police in evidence at the Brunswick Police Court to-day stated that Walter Herrman had informed them that an accident, in which his car had been jammed…

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Betting in Mid-week Decreases Police Specialist on Offenders Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 7

Mid-week betting has fallen off 50 per cent, since the depression had ended, said Inspector Keefe. Officer-in-Charge of the special…

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Ex-policeman's Appeal High Court to Give Judgment Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 7

The High Court will give judgment to-morrow on the appeal of Ernest Harold Fletcher, one of 13 policemen who was dismissed from the police…

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"Deliberate and Cold-blooded Murder" Claims Crown Farley Station Case Trial Begins at East Maitland of Three Youths

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 1

"The Crown places this crime before you as a deliberate and cold blooded murder, callously conceived and just as unfeelingly carried out," said the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. T. S. Crawford, K.C.), outlining the case to the jury when the Parley Railway Station murder trial opened at Maitland Circuit Court to-day…

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Seaman Shot On the Dorsetshire Police on Board Fatality Off Queensland Coast BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 7

A seaman named Dickinson was fatally shot on H.M.S. Dorsetshire when the vessel was steaming up the Queensland coast on its return…

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Henry Ford Has Court Victory Opposition To Unions Upheld New York

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 9

As the Federal court has decided that the procedure followed by the National Labor Relations Board inflicts an unconstitutional injustice on…

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In the Courts Gaol For Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 8

George Henry Brennan, 42, a cook, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment on each of four charges of stealing, by Mr. Soane, S.M.,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 11

Six cases listed for hearing at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday were adjourned. These included charges against Thomas Dixon Gibson, 18, and William…

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Licensing Court Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 7

The licence of the Park View Hotel, Islington, was transferred from John Mayes to Mary Ada Owen. Mr. K. W. Barnett (Messrs. Br eye., Cragg, and…

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