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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 80

Summons Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M.) Publican Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 5

A plea of not guilty was made by Ernest Richardson when he was charged that, while licensee of the Cricketers Arms Hotel. Cook's Hill,…

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Claim for £91 SUCCEEDS District Court Verdict

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 9

A claim for £91/6/ as the balance owing on two promissory notes was made in District Court yesterday before Judge Nield by Mary Beatrice Campbell, of Dora Creek…

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Conciliation Commission Union Official Complains to Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 5

The absence of the employees' representatives at a meeting to-day of the Conciliation Commission to consider an application by the…

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Police Raids on Organisations in Scottish Cities London

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 2

Detectives at Gloscow. Edinburgh, and Aberdeen raided the Scottish Nationalist Party and the Nationalist Mutual Aid Committee. Officials and…

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W. Maitland Abattoir Site District Court Appeal Opened

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 2

Opening the hearing, at Maitland District Court to-day, of an appeal against Kearsley Shire Council's refusal to grant…

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'Despicable' Case of Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 2

"I don't think we could have a more despicable case before the Court. The defendant is not entitled to any leniency."…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 8

GAOLED FOR THEFT.—Caught taking a handbag from a car in Hunter-street, at 9.45 a.m. on May 2, George Butcher, 58, a labourer, told Constable J. Duffell, "It is…

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East Maitland Police Court (Before Mr. C. J. Johnstone. P.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 15

TRAFFIC OFFENCES.—For having permitted an unlicensed driver to drive his car, Arthur Leo Murrell, of Charles-street, Erskineville, was fined £1, with…

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Woman Acquitted Charged with Abducting Own Child

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—An unmarried 20-year-old woman pleaded "Not guilty" at the General Sessions to-day, to having taken from her lawful adopters a…

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Still No Motive in Nebo Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 15

BRISBANE, Thursday.—Police left Nebo to-night for a farm a few miles outside the township, following a promising lead to the murder of Herbert…

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Gaol for Italian Saboteurs in America New York

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 3

Captain Bersia and the chief engineer, Novella, were sentenced to-day at Wilson (North Carolina) to three years'…

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Police Inspector Sued for Defamation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 15

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A police constable said in the Supreme Court to-day that in a report his superior officer had described him as a drone, who had…

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Commissioner to Attend Police Social

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 2

The Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. J. MacKny) will attend tho 21st annual smoke social of the Newcastle branch of the Police Association of…

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Offices Raided by Police Scottish Organisations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 13

LONDON, May 8. A.A.P.—Detectives at Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen raided the offices of the Scottish Socialist Party, the United Scottish…

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To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.H.) Stole a Cycle

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 9 May 1941 · page 2

Pleading guilty to having stolen a bicycle valued at £3, the property or Timothy Murphy, at Islington, on April 18, Jim Arthur Dudley Wall, 26…

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Charged with Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1941 · page 8

SYDNEY, Friday.—A foreman and a motor-driver were charged at the Redfern Police Station to-night with having feloniously slain Alan Laurence McKeon…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1941 · page 9

THEFT OF BICYCLE.—Jim Arthur Dudley Wall, 26, a sheet metal worker, was fined £5 and ordered to pay £1 compensation on a charge of having stolen a bicycle…

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Magistrate Says Wife Too Jealous London, April 7

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 10 May 1941 · page 7

Utterly unreasonable and inordinately Jealous was the description applied to Mrs. Marie Foukx, of Oxgate Gardens. Cricklewood, by the…

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Harold Williams at Police Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1941 · page 8

The Australian baritone, Harold Williams, will sing at a concert arranged by the police for the Australian Comforts Fund special appeal, at the City Hall on…

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Nazi Policy of Murder in Poland Washington

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 10 May 1941 · page 8

The British Ambassador, Lord Halifax, who is on a tour of the Middle West, in a speech to-day, called attention to the cruelty put…

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