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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 80

Preparing for Police Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 9

About 600 police and members of the Police Boys' Club will take part in the Police Carnival on Newcastle Showground on Saturday, February 22 Starting at 10 a.m., the…

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In the Courts Newcastle Police (Before Mr. N. L. Sheridan, S.M.) Case Adjourned

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 February 1941 · page 2

Charged with having falsely represented himself as a Secret Service agent and interpreter for the Commonwealth Government, and by such…

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Gaol Sentence for Sacrilege Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 3

Roy Mortimer Griffiths, 26, interior decorator, was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions to-day to 16 months' imprisonment following his plea of guilty…

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Police Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 6

FALSE REPRESENTATION CHARGE.—Cyril Thornton, 40, a seaman, was remanded until Monday on a charge that, at Newcastle, on February 12, he falsely represented to a…

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Compete at Police Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 14

Northern Extended Miners' Lodge has entered a tug-of-war team in the police carnival, to be held at Newcastle Showground on Saturday, Fegruary 22…

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Police Evidence in Diamond Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 10

LONDON, Feb. 13. A.A.P.—The hearing was continued of the case in which Hyman Richard Diamond, an Australian company director, is suing three police…

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Kissed Prisoners in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A number of women who joined in a hysterical outcry when George Dempsey, 36, and John Edward McIvor, 39, were sentenced at…

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Troops to Help at Police Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 5

Members of the 1st Brigade training school now at Broadmeadow have agreed to cooperate with the police in their carnival on the showground on February…

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Police Recover Doughnut Dollars New York

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 1

The Miami Beach (Florida) police found all the jewels and cash, of a total value of 300,000 dollars (£93,750 Australian) in the same suitcase, and…

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German Internees Recaptured Gave Police No Trouble

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 9

ECHUCA, Thursday.—Surprised in a bend on the New South Wales side of the Murray River, seven miles west of Echuca, at 5.30 p.m. to-day, Karl Johannes Iser,…

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Favours Basic Wage Protest State Labour Council Attacks Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The New South Wales Trades and Labour Council to-night decided to recommend that unions hold a stop-work meeting as a protest…

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Bankruptcy Court (Before Mr. S. A. Thornton, S.M.) Could Not Pay Damages

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 2

Damages and costs awarded against him following a motor accident in which, he was involved was the cause of his bankruptcy, said Daniel…

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In the Courts (Before Mr. S. A. Thornton, S.m.) Newcastle Police "Swore For 20 Minutes"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 2

Arrested on a charge of drunkenness in Mitchell-street, Stockton, yesterday, Charles Joseph Dowling, 31, soldier, used indecent language for 20…

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Police Court (Before Mr. S. A. Thornton, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 February 1941 · page 5

OFFENCES AT STOCKTON.—Charles Joseph Downes, 38, a solider, pleaded "Not guilty" to charges of drunkenness and having used indecent language within the hearing of…

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Police Carnival Next

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 February 1941 · page 3

In the absence of the Governor or his representative, the Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. W. E. Young) has been invited to take the salute…

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Police to Assist Greek Appeal

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 February 1941 · page 3

Newcastle police have offered to cooperate in assisting the Greek Day appeal. In conjunction with sporting organisations it is proposed to run a…

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Police Sergeants' Class in First Aid

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 February 1941 · page 3

For the past four months a class of employees from Lysaghts has been receiving instruction in first aid from Sergeant Pender, of the Newcastle…

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Internees Charged With Sheep Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 February 1941 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The three German internees, who were recaptured at gun-point beside the Murray River at Echuca last Thursday, were locked up…

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Wages of Theft Are Poor Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 February 1941 · page 3

In disposing to pawn shops and second-hand dealers of £1700 worth of property, mostly jewellery, which he had stolen. Neville Phillip Maybury, 25,…

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Cessnock Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 February 1941 · page 2

(Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M.) Arthur Elvin, of Wollombi-road, Cessnock, John Easton, of James-st., Cessnock and Leslie Coxon, of…

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