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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 58 of 179

"50 Years Behind Times" Gaol System Criticised Public Service Conference Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1939 · page 11

Protests against warders' working conditions and opposition to secret inquiries after gaol disorders were made by delegates to the Public Service Association…

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Divorce Court More Undefended Cases Decrees Nisi Granted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1939 · page 4

More undefended applications for divorce were heard by Mr. Acting Justice A. J. Hardwick at the Newcastle Courthouse yesterday. The sitting was…

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Hamilton Paving Charges Test Cases for District Court Mayor Expects to Appear As Witness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1939 · page 10

Whether Hamilton Council's footpath paving charges were legal is likely to be tested in the Newcastle District Court on May 2. It was announced at the…

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Fears of Foul Play Two More Men Missing in West Search for Grave Young Man Reports to Police NARROMINE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1939 · page 9

Police fear that two more men missing in the Narromine district have met with foul play. Reports of a recently-dug grave…

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Rising Feared Nazis in South-west Africa Hitler's Birthday Supposed Reason for Police Move (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, April 19

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1939 · page 9

The sudden transfer of more than 300 armed police from Johannesburg to South-west Africa is believed to have been due to the…

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Luxury Liner Destroyed by Fire in France Art Treasures Saved Police Suspect Sabotage (Australian Associated Press.) Le Havre, April 19

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1939 · page 9

The French luxury liner, Paris (34,569 tons) was destroyed by fire in the early hours of this morning and sank at 10 a.m. despite the…

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For Trial McKay and Talbot Piha Bones Case Court Told of Heavy Insurance Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1939 · page 9

Gordon Robert McKay, alias Tom Boland, and James Arthur Talbot were to-day committed for trial on charges of having…

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Branxton Police Court Fined for Negligent Driving Sequel to Fatal Smash

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 15

A motor fatality on the New England Highway near Greta, on January 2, had its sequel at the Branxton Police Court yesterday, when Stanley Francis Smith,…

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Carrier Remanded Charged with Manslaughter SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 23

Clarence Alexander Collins, 33 carrier, was remanded until April 26 at Campsie Court to-day on charge of having feloniously slain Edward Leon at…

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Police Court Thursday, April 20 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Offensive Behaviour

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 19

For having behaved offensively in the Railway refreshment room early yesterday morning, Terence O'Halloran, 46, seaman, was fined £1, in default two days'…

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Conspiracy Case Elder Truda Sent to Gaol "Impudent Swindle" Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 14

Nicola Truda, 58, musician, Nicola Romeo Truda, 21, salesman, and Ellen Matilda Griffiths, 46, were convicted at the Quarter Sessions to-day on charges of…

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Two Shots Fired Stroud Farmer Wounded 15-Year-old Boy Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 12

Newcastle police were informed late yesterday that two shots had been fired at Stroud early on Wednesday night, and that Lindsay Caldwell, 30, a dairy farmer…

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Police Reward Smart Schoolboys Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 4

The Police Commissioner (Mr. W. J. MacKay) to-day presented two High School boys with certificates of appreciation and cheques for £1 for informing…

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Mild Influenza Sweeps Auckland Police Auckland

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 7

So many Auckland police ate down with mild influenza that the authorities have bought 6000 bottles of quinine tablets and have instructed members of the…

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Failed to Agree Jury in Cairns Murder Trial CAIRNS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 19

The jury in the case in which Peter Moran, or Peter Vungeboy, 52, is charged with having murdered Johnny Martin in a blacks' camp near Violanda, about…

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"Cure by Sound" Man Charged with Imposition Counsel Tells of Skill Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 15

"I cure everything by sound. I do not use medicine," Theophilus James Roberts, of Collins-street, was alleged to have aid, when questioned by a police…

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Circuit Court No Criminal Trials Listed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 15

No criminal trials have been listed for hearing at the Maitland Circuit Court, which will open at East Maitland Courthouse on May 2. Jurors who have…

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"Workshop Spies" Unions Condemn Special Police SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 20

Condemning a move described as an attempt to coerce and intimidate workers and establish military and industrial conscription, the Trades and Labour…

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Murder of Husband at Taree Wife and Lover Appeal Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 7

Convicted of murder, and now under sentence of death, Harold Percy Smith and Matilda Edwards to-day appealed to the Court of…

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"Not Needed" Extra Police at Belmont Chief Secretary's Reply

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 8

The present strength of the police at Belmont was sufficient to give adequate protection in normal times, and when abnormal conditions prevailed additional…

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