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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 63 of 80

Police Learn About Producer Gas

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 September 1941 · page 4

Nine policemen are among the pupils enrolled for o class of instruction in producer-gas operations which commenced to-day at Cessnock Technical…

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Massacres in Yugoslavia Nazis Get Croat Terrorists To Murder Serbians

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 September 1941 · page 1

LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).—About 300,000 Serbs, including women and children, have been massacred in Croatia. The Nazi-controlled Croat terrorist organisation, the…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 September 1941 · page 4

ILLEGAL BETTING.—Richard Charles Pearce, 35, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to having been in a room of the Criterion Hotel. Carrington, on Saturday, for betting. He…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 September 1941 · page 4

James Manning, 45, donkeyman, and Benjamin Hofobin, 41, ship's fireman, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having assaulted James Johnson on a vessel lying at…

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Soldier on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 September 1941 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.—An arrest quickly followed investigations to-day into the death of Thomas Edward Walker, 45, garrison soldier, whose body was found…

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Charge of Murder in Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 September 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY: John Prince, a Crown witness, returning his evidence at the Central Criminal Court to-day, denied that he had…

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No Liquor After 6 at Clubs Magistrate's Ruling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 September 1941 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Chief Licensing Magistrate (Mr. Scobie) ruled to-day that club members were not entitled to be served with liquor after 6 p.m…

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Police Boys' Cricket Club

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 September 1941 · page 6

The Police Boys' Cricket Club will meet at the club rooms on Thursday night at 8 o'clock. The club has entered teams in the C…

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Japanese Police Made a Mistake

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 September 1941 · page 1

PEIPING, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—Mrs Alko Clark, the Japanese wife of the Press attache at the British Embassy said to-day that she had been held…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 October 1941 · page 8

SHIP'S OFFICER ASSAULTED.—When the third engineer of an oversea vessel found two members of the crew, said to be intoxicated, trying to give first-aid to another member…

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Police Boys' Swimming Club

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 October 1941 · page 7

The Newcastle Police Boys' Swimming Club will meet at the club rooms, Civic Block, to-night to make arrangements for the 1941-42 season…

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Murder Trial: Evidence of Blade of Grass

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 October 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY: Evidence that while William Fisher, 65, printer, was in a room at Darlinghurst police station on August 9 a blade of…

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Horror in Slovenia As Hitler Tries to Murder a Nation

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 October 1941 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.)—A ghastly story of German brutality in Slovenia, a tiny state within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is revealed to-day in a long report by a Yugoslav Minister. Among horrors listed in this…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 October 1941 · page 7

ASSAULT ALLEGED.—Long evidence was taken in the adjourned case against James John Green, Warrant-officer, of Broadmeadow. The hearing will be continued to-day…

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Woman Remanded on Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 October 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY: At a Court of Petty Sessions in the Reception House this morning, Myra Rita Ellefsen (31), domestic duties, was charged with having…

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Police Boys' Sports Clubs

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 October 1941 · page 11

The Newcastle Police Boys' Swimming Club will open its season on Sunday at the Newcastle baths. Boys intending to join the club…

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Airmen Court-martialled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 October 1941 · page 4

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Minister for Air (Mr. McEwen) said to-night that a number of non-commissioned officers and men at Benalla Air School…

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Murder Trial Fisher Gives Evidence From Witness Box

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 October 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY: From the witness box at the Central Criminal Court to-day. William Fisher (65), printer, declared his innocence…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 October 1941 · page 8

GAOL FOR SOLDIER.—William Wilmont Black, 28, a member of the military forces, pleaded "Guilty" to having stolen three pairs of military boots, one pair of slacks, two…

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Murder Trial Questions Asked by Jurymen

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 October 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY: Dr. Keith Grieve Assistant Micro-biologist, of the Department of Health, who hapreviously given evidence of his…

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