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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

1,567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 79

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 6

ON SERIOUS CHARGES.—Ronald Lloyd Wright, 29, munition worker, was charged with rape and with having assaulted a woman at Hamilton on…

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Not Meant for Bing Crosby Two Dogs in Police Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 5

Mr. W. J. Smith, who is the Director of Gun Ammunition Production, told the Magistrate (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd) in Newcastle Police Court…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1942 · page 5

Mr. Justice Edwards presided at the sitting of the Matrimonial Causes Court which began at Newcastle Courthouse yesterday…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 4

RECEIVED CATTLE DOGS.—Daniel Edwards, 39, carter, was found guilty of having received two cattle dogs, knowing them to have been stolen. He was…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 4

Eleven undefended petitions were heard by Mr. Justice Edwards at the sitting of the Matrimonial Causes Court in Newcastle yesterday…

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Manpower Case Before Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY.—The first case involving the manpower regulations restricting the rights of employer and employee to terminate…

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One Case for Maitland District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 March 1942 · page 2

Only one case has been listed for hearing before Judge Nield at the Maitland District Court, which will open at 2 p.m. on March 16 at the…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1942 · page 7

DISCHARED.—After having been remanded for medical observation, Basil Cherry 31 labourer, who had been charged with having maliciously…

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Police Boys' Club At Newcastle

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 March 1942 · page 4

Newcastle Police Boys' Club's concert party, consisting of Joe Williams, Cliff Haines. Fred Parker, Joyce Bett, Cath, McHenry…

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Police Close Gosford Billiard Rooms

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 March 1942 · page 8

GOSFORD. Wednesday.—The Police Department has declared Gosford's two billiard rooms common gamine houses. The doors have been…

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Divorce Court in Newcastle (Before Mr. Justice Edwards) CONNELLY v. CONNELLY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 March 1942 · page 2

The hearing was continued of the case in which Myrtle Lillan Connelly (formerly Gardiner), of South Wallsend, asked for a divorce from Archibald…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 10

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Norman William Wolfe, 50, pleaded "Guilty" to having used indecent language at Newcastle railway station on Wednesday…

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No Extra Police for Belmont

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 March 1942 · page 5

Police protection at Belmont was considered adequate, the Police Commissioner (Mr. Mackay advised Mr. G. Booth, M.L.A., replying to Belmont…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 March 1942 · page 4

BEGGED ALMS.—On a charge of having been in Hunter-street. Newcastle, to beg aims. James Patrick Summers. 38, seaman, was sentenced to a month's…

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Young Mother Will Rear Baby in Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 March 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY.—A baby aged 10 weeks is being looked after in Long Bay Gaol by her mother, who on Wednesday was…

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Police Take Man's Dying Depositions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 March 1942 · page 3

GOSFORD, Friday.—In a ward in the Lidcombe State Hospital to-day, dying depositions were taken from Walter Duck, 65, invalid…

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Thefts Reported To Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 March 1942 · page 2

Ernest Browning Kingsnorth of Edinburgh Road. Castle Crag. has informed the Newcastle police that a week-end cottage at Dora Creek…

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Husband on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 March 1942 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sunday.—Mrs. Doris Ada Watson, 42, was shot dead outside her mother's home at Sarina, 22 miles south of Mackay, this…

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In Court To-day Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Insulting Language

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 March 1942 · page 3

"It's time the Japs were here; they would make make you do something in the Army, you big—." When Prank Wilshaw. 35. cook, pleaded guilty to a…

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Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 March 1942 · page 2

John Kenny Hapley, of West Gosford, who sells oysters from a basket on Gosford railway station, has reported to the police…

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