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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 74 of 179

Took Picture Of "Flying Fortress": Search By Police LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 1

The Military Intelligence Branch has requested the police to find a mysterious motorist seen photographing with a telescopic lens the secret…

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German Barrister Appeals Denied Admittance to Supreme Court MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 8

Dr. Rudolph Ernest Kahn, a German lawyer, appealed in the State Full Court to-day from the decision of the Legal Board of Examiners denying him…

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Special Court To Investigate R.A.A.F. Crashes CANBERRA

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 7

Regulations to establish a special court of air inquiry to deal with the R.A.A.F. crashes will probably be issued to-day…

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22 Shot Dead Charge Against Rumanian Police Conflicting Versions of Incident London, May 15

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1939 · page 7

"Rumania will be asked to explain," says the Sofia correspondent of "The Times," "the alleged cold-blooded murder, by Rumanian policemen, with…

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Police Transfer

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 9

Senior First-Class Constable T. Newell, who will shortly take over tho police control of Weston, was for eight years attached to…

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Bank Clerk Sent to Gaol Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 5

After a trial lasting 14 days, the longest for an individual accused at the Darlinghurst Sessions. George Arthur Hadley. 20, a former bank clerk, was convicted…

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Sent to Gaol for 12 Months Muswellbrook

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 7

Convicted at the Muswellbraok Police Court on a charge of having stolen an overcoat, a hat. and £5 12s In money, to the total value of…

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Police Court Tuesday, May 16 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Indecent Language

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 5

On a charge of having used indecent language at Carrington on May 15, Donald Barette Corner, alias Donald Davison, 19, seaman, wan fined £3, in default…

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Licensing Court Hotel Transfer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 5

The transfer of the licence of the Royal Hotel, Waratah, from the present licensee to Duncan Forbes McGeachie, of Marv-street, Speers Point, was granted. Mr…

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Police Court Bee Keepers Fined Hives on Stock Reserves (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd,) P.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 11

Two owners of bee hives were proceeded against at the West Maitland Court yesterday on charges of having occupied stock reserves…

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Bushfire Victim Fined at Maitland Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 7

A charge that the Maitland Pastures Protection Board was hampering a victim of the Victorian bushfires in earning an honest living was made by…

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Death of Indian Maltese Detained by Police BRISBANE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 9

Following the death of a 70-year-old Indian, Dooley Khan, at Reliance Creek, Habana, a Maltese has been detained. The police believe that Khan was shot…

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Dragged From Nightclub Woman's Story to Police Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 1

Dragged from the door of a night club in Oxford-street, Sydney, into a motor lorry, a woman cried so loudly last…

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High Court Reserves Decision German Lawyer's Appeal MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 10

The Full High Court of Australia to-day reserved judgment on the appeal by Dr. Rudolph Kahu, a German refugee, against the decision of the Victorian…

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Police Have No Idea Of Whereabouts Of Woolcott Forbes SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 1

Police officers admitted to-day that John Woolcoll-Forbes. who absconded from hit bail at Bombay, teemed to have entirely disappeared…

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Wife's Evidence in Divorce Court Husband's Charges Are Denied Woodcock Case

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 8

In cross-examination to-day at the resumed hearing of the Woodcock divorce suit, Denis Bloxham, an employee of the…

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Inquiry Next Week Air Force Disasters Special Court to Be Created Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 9

A Royal Australian Air Force Air Court of Inquiry into R.A.A.F. mishaps is to be set up by the Government almost immediately. In order that the Court…

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Newcastle Divorce Court Woodcock Case Evidence of Private Detectives Witness Has Brush with Counsel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 5

The hearing was continued before Mr. Acting Justice Hardwick and a jury of four in the Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday of the case in which Frank…

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Ban on Outside Lotteries N.S.W. Act Upheld by High Court Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 May 1939 · page 8

The New South Wales law prohibiting the sale of Queensland Golden Casket and Tattersall's sweep tickets in New South Wales is valid, the…

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Police Court Wednesday, May 17 Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m. Youth Sent to Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 May 1939 · page 4

Raymond Thomas Jones, 19, a labourer, was sentenced to imprisonment for three months, with hard labour, for having had in his possession, at Hamilton, on May 4,…

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