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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 45 of 80

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 July 1941 · page 7

RESERVED JUDGMENT.—The Magistrate announced his decision in the case in which John Andrew O'Neill. Distribution Superintendent of the Electric Supply Department of…

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In Court To-day Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M.) Failed To Pay Fare

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 July 1941 · page 5

Norman McLean (31), bollermaker, pleaded guilty to a charge of having refused to pay Joseph Alexander Page the prescribed fare of 6s which the hirer of a taxi-cab…

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

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

DID NOT PAY FARE.-For having failed to pay the fare of 6/ after hiring a taxi-cab driven by Joseph Alexander Page, at Newcastle, on July 1. Norman McLean, 31,…

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Suburban "Clubs" Declared by Police

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.—To-day the declaration of three suburban "clubs" as common gaming houses was…

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Fined for Contempt of Court

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

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Truth and Sportsman Ltd. was fined £100, and the Editor of "Truth." Nicholas Vivian Coxon, £25, by the State Full Court…

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Trautwein Seeks Intervention By High Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Theodore Charles Trautwein, bankrupt and former M.L.C. asked the High Court to-day to intervene against an order…

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Woman Stabbed at Surry Hills Features Baffle Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mrs. Doris Duckworth, 35, was stabbed to death to-night at Surry Hills. The time of death is not known. Police are not yet certain…

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Story of War Escapes Told in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 July 1941 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A story of torpedoing in Mediterranean, bombing off the coast of Greece and a perilous voyage in a patched up ship…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M.) Stealing Alleged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 5

James Vincent Kelly, 26, laborer, was charged with having stolen a bicycle, valued at £1 the property of John Lauder, at Adamstown on June 25…

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Police Met Wall of Silence Murder of Woman at Surry Hills

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A long-bladed knife, believed to have been used to murder Mrs. Dorothy Duckworth, was found to-day in the house where the…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 9

FINED FOR THEFT.—James Frederick Tindall, 37, a fitter, was fined £2 for having stolen a stilson wrench, valued at 5/, the property of the Broken Hill Pty. Co. Ltd.,…

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Gaol for Seaman Statement Likely to Cause Disaffection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 5

WOLLONGONG. Thursday.—Patrick Walsh, 22, seaman, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment at Wollongong Court to-day for having…

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High Court Refuses Trautwein's Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Theodore Charles Trautwein, bankrupt and former M.L.C., unsuccessfully invoked the High Court to-day against an order requiring him to…

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Application to Court by City Council

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Justice Ferguson, in the Industrial Commission to-day, referred to the Full Bench of the Commission an application by the…

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Mechanised Colliery Agent's Evidence at Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 6

Giving evidence at the Warden's Court, East Maitland, yesterday, in support of applications for suspension of labour conditions on mining leases in the parishes…

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In the Courts (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Industrial Court Decision Reserved

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 2

Arthur Vincent Carroll, Secretary of the Newcastle sub-branch of the Amalgamated Clothing and Allied Trades Union, proceeded against Rundles, Pty., Ltd., of Hunter-street…

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In Court To-day (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Newcastle Summons Division Drove Too Fast

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 July 1941 · page 5

Sydney, George Webb, of Phillip-street, Sydney, was fined £3, with 8s costs, in default seven days' imprisonment, for having exceeded the speed limit with a car on…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 July 1941 · page 8

REMANDED.—James Vincent Kelly, 26, a labourer, was remanded to July 11 on £5 bail on a charge of having stolen, at Adamstown on June 25, a bicycle, valued at £1,…

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Reward Offered in Murder Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 July 1941 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Chief of the Criminal Investigation Branch (Supt. Matthews) said to-day that a substantial reward would be paid to any person…

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Police Hunt Bank Robbers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 July 1941 · page 2

A large force of detectives yesterday continued the search for the bandits who held up the teller at Mayfield branch of the Union Bank on Thursday…

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