Police Cancel Street Game
A "lucky envelope" competition which the Women's Auxiliary of the Returned Soldiers' League, Newcastle branch, planned to hold in Hunter-street last night…
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Courts & crime, 1941
1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 80
Workers' Court Ends
The hearing of claims by miners for compensation arising out of colliery accidents concluded before the Workers' Compensation Commission at Newcastle Courthouse yesterday…
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A verdict for the defendant was returned by Judge Nield at Maitland District Court yesterday in the case in which Herbert Norman Townsend, of Cessnock, claimed £100…
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SYDNEY: According to a story told to the police, Jack Andrews. 25, followed his wife and a man into a paddock at Parramatta on June 27. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Court To-day Newcastle Police (Before Mr. G. G. Carr-Boyd. S.m.) Indecent Language
For using indecent language in Scott Street, Newcastle, on September 13, Alexander Anderson, 50, laborer, was fined £5 or 10 days' imprisonment…
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SYDNEY: Mr William Des. mond Creagh, police court missionary, came into conflict to-day with Mr. Sutherland, S.M.,…
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There is a move to have sittings of both the District Court and Compensation Commission at Cessnock. At present, litigants must attend at…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—In the Parramatta Police Court to-day, a member of the R.A.A.F., Jack Andrews, 25, was charged with having wounded his wife,…
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STOLE TOBACCO AT TORONTO.—Harold Francis Burgess, 22, labourer, was committed for trial at Newcastle Quarter Sessions this week on a charge that, at Toronto on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland and District Police Court (Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.m.)
CHARGE DISMISSED.—A charge of negligent driving against Leonard Walter Woods, of Shamrock-street Hexham, was dismissed. The charge arose from an accident on…
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SYDNEY.—In the trial at the Central Criminal Court to-day of Francis Joseph Patrick Kelly (47), laborer, charged with…
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Police are conducting a widespread hunt for the man who attacked a young woman who was travelling alone in a…
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MELBOURNE: Henry Milton Neville Short cannot ring bells any more in St. James Old Cathedral Church. King-street, City, or in any other…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—After an argument with the Magistrate (Mr. Sutherland), William Desmond Creagh, Police Court missionary, was charged with contempt of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Court To-day Licensing Court (Before Mr. G. G. Carr-Boyd. S.M.)
The licence of the Westminster Hotel. Newcastle, was transferred from Thomas L[?] Fines to Henry Bonomini. Mr. Barnett (Messrs. Braye, Cragg and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Attacked by Man in Mail Train Woman's Story to Police
Travelling alone in the compartment of a carriage attached to the North Coast mail train last night, a young woman told the police she was attacked by a…
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SYDNEY: Miss Mary Ellen Robinson, shop assistant, said in Parramatta police court to-day that she had been very friendly…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—a daring attempt by Kenneth Jones, 21, to escape from Pentridge Gaol on Sunday night was foiled when a warder armed with a…
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SYDNEY: "It's wicked of you to try to make me say something I don't know," cried Mrs. Elizabeth Gladys Beer, of…
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OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Charged with having behaved offensively In Hunter-street. Newcastle, on September 16, 1941, John William Dyer. 21 labourer, and Joseph Clare…
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