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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 80

Kyle Divorce Case Husband's Denials to Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1941 · page 2

For some years before he parted from his family, there had bern no affection between him and his wife and children…

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Belmont Police (Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1941 · page 3

Owen Andrew Rennie, of Marks Point, charged with having used indecent language at Belmont on June 11, was fined £1 10s and 8s costs, or…

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Shortage of Judges in Supreme Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1941 · page 4

To meet a shortage of judges in the Supreme Court, the State Cabinet has decided to introduce legistation to enable judges of the Industrial…

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Assassin Implicates Mussolini in Murder Plot Now Prisoner Of War In British Hands LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1941 · page 2

Mussolini's complicity in one of the greatest political crimes of the century was proved to-day in dramatic fashion. On June 11, 1924—17 years ago to-day—Signor Matteolti, leader of the Reformed Socialists in Italy and…

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Industrial Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.M.) Carrier Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1941 · page 3

Francis Hilton Ticehurst, secretary or Newcastle and District Trolley. Draymen and Carters' Union, preceded against A. F. Toll Pty. Ltd. carriers…

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Assault Alleged

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 June 1941 · page 14

Sydney Mathora Elliott (23), laborer, was charged by warrant with having, at Carrington on June 10, unlawfully assaulted Ivy Edith Cavill…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 June 1941 · page 4

LABOURER REMANDED.—Lawrence Lionel Blackett. 19, labourer, was remanded to June 18 on a charge that at Newcastle on Jane 5 he state an overcoat, valued at £2, the…

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Compensation Court Miner's Claim

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 June 1941 · page 2

Claiming that a back injury sustained while lifting a skip in Elrington Colliery on October 21, 1940, had causes him to lose work, William…

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In the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.M.) Fined For Betting

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 June 1941 · page 14

George Webb (41), laborer, pleaded guilty to a charge of having been in Phoebe Street, Islington, yesterday, for the purpose of betting…

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Police in State Honours Medal to Superintendent White

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 June 1941 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday,—New South Wales Birthday Honours issued to-day were surprisingly confined to the award of the King's Police and Fire Services…

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Wallsend Police (Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 June 1941 · page 14

Pleading guilty to having behaved in an offensive manner in Cowper Street. Wallsend, on June 7, three brothers—Cecil Patrick Maher (38),…

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Proxy Wanted Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 10

When a minor traffic matter was called for Wallsend Police Court yesterday, a man appeared, announced by the Court orderly, as the defendant's father…

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Sentenced to Death Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 3

After Thomas Herbert Skinner, 40, soldier, was convicted at the Central Criminal Court yesterday evening of a capital assault and sentenced to death…

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To-day in the C O U R T S Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M.) Assault Alleged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 2

A reman to June 18 was granted in the case in which Leslie Albert Wilson (54), laborer, was charged with having at Newcastle on May 30 assaulted Henry Parry,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 15

OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Pleading "Guilty" to havng behaved in an offensive manner on Nobbys Beach on June 11.Nlcoulous Silcromonos, 44, labourer, was fined £5…

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Warden's Court Sitting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 11

The Mining warden (Mr. F. Hynes) will sit at East Maitland Courthouse on July 3 to deal with five applications lodged by Albert Andrew Holland, of Sydney, for…

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U.S. Defence Strikes Daring Soviet Plot Charged New York

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 3

"The plot to shut down American major defence plants on a wholesale basis is the most daring piece of Russian intrigue…

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Compensation Court (Before Judge Perdriau.) Claim Fails

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 2

Alexander Hinds, of Swanson Street, Weston, claimed £4 8s 6d from J. and A. Brown and Abermain Seaham Collieries Ltd., from March 3, 1941, to June 2, 1941. He alleged…

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Jury Foreman Collapsed and Died in Court Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 3

Michael Malor, foreman of the jury in the Woolcott Forbes conspiracy trial, collapsed and died in the jury room at the Central Criminal Court…

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More Inspectors to Police Awards A.L.P. Asks for Appointments

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 June 1941 · page 11

The appointment of additional industrial inspectors to police awards, and the employment of women inspectors for industries employing a large proportion of female labour,…

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