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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 80

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 7

MISAPPROPRIATION ALLEGED.—Jack King, 36, of Greta military camp, was charged with having, between July 15 and August 23, fraudulently misappropriated £9…

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Two Months' Gaol Soldier Assaulted Taxi-driver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 2

A soldier who, it was alleged, had been involved in the attack on a constable at Newcastle on January 5, was charged before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at West…

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Special Trains for Police Carnival

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 2

For the police carnival to be held in Newcastle on Saturday. February 22, application will be made for special trains to cope with the traffic. Bus and tram…

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To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Newcastle Police Court Indecent Language

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 2

When George Henry Powell, 27, seaman, consented to take out a prohibition order against himself for 12 months. Mr. Soane agreed to alter a…

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No Legal Officer for Police Force

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Premier (Mr. Mair) said to-night that Cabinet had decided not to attach a qualified legal officer to the staff of the Police…

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Imperial Army Shells Tobruk Troops Mustered for Final Assault LONDON, Jan. 14. A.A.P.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1941 · page 5

British shells dropped with monotonous regularity among the Italian defences at Tobruk to-day, as the Imperial army mustered for the final assault. Australian artillery joined in the bombardment…

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Professor Charged with Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 7

LONDON, Jan. 15. A.A.P.—rofessor Arthur Lloyd James will appear at the Hampstead Petty Sessions to-morrow on a charge of having murdered his wife…

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To-day in the Courts Wallsend Police Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 2

(Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.M. Herbert Michael O'Neill (24) was, fined £2 for behaving Indecently on December 21…

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Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 4

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—George Henry Powell, 27, a seaman, was fined £3 for having need indecent language in Young-street, Carrington, on January 14. Powell took out a…

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In The Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M.) Illegal Betting

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 5

Pleading guilty to having used a place in Everton-street, Hamilton, yesterday, for the purpose of betting. Frederick Gilligan, 51 hairdresser was…

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First Aid Course For Police : A.R.P. Instruction

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 5

All police in Newcastle and suburbs will be given a refresher course in first-aid. commencing on Tuesday and Wednesday next week…

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Night Raids by A.I.F. on Italian Lines. Paving Way to Assault on Tobruk Fortress Cairo

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 2

True to the old A.I.F. tradition that Australian! must dominate the enemy sector allotted to them, the men at Tobruk have never ceased their night raids into the line in front of them. All day they lie low in rocky trenches and wadis, but…

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No Court Impress Day's Talk on Steel Tube Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Justice Cantor, of the Industrial Commission, announced this afternoon that he was unable to accede to…

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Penalty Clause Resented Metal Group in Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 January 1941 · page 2

A clash between Mr. Justice O'Mara and the Federal Secretary of the Ironworkers' lowed a suggestion in the…

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Stealing Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 2

Horace Claude Chapman, 30, a carpenter, was charged with having stolen a quantity of bricks valued at £3 15s 8d. the properly of Roy…

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Solicitor Sentenced to Six Months

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 11

SYDNEY, Thursday.—After a hearing which, with adjournments, had lasted since September 16 last year, the case in which John Royston Wishart, solicitor,…

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Youth for Trial on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 11

HOBART, Thursday.—At the inquest into the death of Winifred Marie Verrier 8, whose body was found in a creek off Huon-road on December 6, the Coroner…

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To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, Sm.) Newcastle Police Court Indecent Language

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 2

For having used indecent language in Sheddon-street, Islington, yesterday, Ronald George Lambert, 22, a denier, was fined £2, in default four…

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Police Courts Newcastle Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 3

ILLEGAL BETTING.—For having used a place in Everton-street, Hamilton, for the purpose of betting on January 15, Frederick Gilligan, 51, a hairdresser, was fined £10…

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Ignore Court Decision Tube-workers to Stop on

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 8

Employees of Stewarts and Lloyds intend to hold the stop-work meeting on Monday as planned, despite the refusal of Mr. Justice Cantor to sanction it…

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