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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 80

Quist Raises Point of Universal Court for Tennis

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 April 1941 · page 8

While I was touring the United States with the Australian Davis Cup team, there was much argument in favor of a universal court surface for tennis. People wanted to know why all the major championships…

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Small Debts Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 April 1941 · page 2

By consent, Gavin Brancdreth Party, trading as Helron and Smith (Salonola), Newcastle, was awarded £13 4s 10d. with 13s costs, the full amount…

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To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 April 1941 · page 2

Pleading guilty to having used indecent language on the wharf-road, Newcastle, yesterday, John Matchett, 52, laborer, was [?] £2, in default…

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"Hitlerite's" Gaol Sentence to Stand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1941 · page 3

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Despite the modification of National Security Regulation 42A, a sentence of a month's gaol imposed on J. J. Moor under the original…

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Jury Acquits Army Man Rutherford Assault Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1941 · page 2

After a retirement of 35 minutes, a jury at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday afternoon acquitted Leslie James Connolly, 40, a member of the permanent…

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Health Camp at Lake Police Boys Club Plan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1941 · page 4

Newcastle Police aid Citizens' Boys' Club is to negotiate with the Crown Lands Department to obtain a site for a health camp at Lake Macquarie…

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Held Up by Armed Thief "Girl's Story to Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1941 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Detectives are investigating an alleged armed hold-up in a shop in Regent-street. Kogarah, late this afternoon…

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In the Courts Newcastle Police (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.M.) Dangerous Driving Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 April 1941 · page 5

On a charge of driving in a manner dangerous to the public in Fullerton Road. Stockton, on February 9. Eric Joseph Patmore. 36. storeman,…

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Soldiers Fined for Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 11

TAMWORTH, Wednesday.—Two soldiers were each fined £15 in Tamworth Police Court to-day for having assaulted police. They were also fined £2/10/ for…

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Maitland Gaol Warder on Trial

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 2

Arthur Edward Hector McKay, 34, a former warder at the Maitland Gaol, pleaded not guilty at Maitland Quarter…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 4

DANGEROUS DRIVING.—Eric Joseph Patmore, 36, storeman, was remanded to May 13 on a charge of having driven a motor vehicle on Fallerton-road Stockton, on…

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Cattle Stealing Charge Fails Kurri Man Acquitted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 9

George Newstead, 25, was acquitted on a charge of cattle stealing at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday afternoon after the jury had deliberated for 50 minutes…

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Spine Fractured Alleged Brutal Assault in Holdsworthy Camp

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 7

CANBERRA, Thursday Morning.—Allegations that Sapper George Moore, of the A.I.F., was in Randwick Military Hospital with a fractured spine, as a result…

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Islington Tragedy Inquest Woman's Head Battered In Husband Present in Police Custody

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 2

Circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Frances Chald Trimmer, aged 20, who was found with her head battered in at her home in Chinchen Street, Islington, early in the morning of March 21, were probed by the District Coroner (Mr. A. G…

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To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 16

William James Pluke (45), cook, was remanded till to-morrow on charges of having stolen £50 from John Trim on March 25 and with having in his…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 8

STEALING CHARGE—William James Pluke, 45, cook, was charged with having at Newcastle on March 25 stolen £50, the property of John Trim; and on the same date, at…

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Found Not Guilty Ex-warder at Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 2

Jury at the Maitland Quarter Sessions last night acquitted Arthur Edward Hector McKay, 34, former warder at the…

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Detective Tells Court Of Missing Money

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 2

William James Pluke. 45. cook, pleaded not guilty at the Newcastle Summons Court to-day to a charge of having in hts possession at Newcastle…

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Newcastle Police (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M.) Betting Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 2

Christopher Coady. 52, clerk, was remanded for a month on a charge of having used the saloon bar of the Criterion Hotel, Newcastle, on…

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Frenchmen Sentenced to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 April 1941 · page 7

LONDON, April 4. A.A.P.—A Berlin report states that two young Frenchmen employed as civilian workers in Germany since the autumn have been sentenced to…

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