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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

1,567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 79

Gaol Sentences at Maitland

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 3

Found guilty of having assaulted a female at Cessnock on November 10. Ernest Schmidt 20, was sentenced to three years' hard…

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Police Court (Before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 8

THEFT OF PETROL.—Pleading "Guilty" to having stolen four gallons of petrol and a gallon of duco thinner, valued at 18/6, the property of…

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Japanese Murder Pressmen

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 1

BRISBANE: Japanese murdered at least three newspaper correspondents according to reports which reached…

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Acquitted on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Bernard McDade, 21, charged with the murder of Malcolm McLean, 31, on the yacht Platypus in Rushcutter Bay on…

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Intent to Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY: In the Central Criminal Court to-day William James Atkinson, 64, was charged with having feloniously pounded Angus…

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Found Not Guilty of Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY: Bernard McDade, 21, laborer, was acquitted by a Jury in the Central Criminal Court yesterday of Oe murder of…

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In Court To-day Police Division (Before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, Sm) Indecent Languagz

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 2

Arthur Oswald Sutton 82, laborer was fined £2 on a charge of using indecent language in Throsby Street. Wickham, on March 31, and for being…

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Police Art Union Drawn

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 6

The Mayor and Mayoress (Ald. and Mrs. Young) were present yesterday afternoon at the drawing of the Police War Fund art union at…

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Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 6

Thieves who broke into the home of George Henry Randall, of Teramby Road, Broadmeadow, made a clean sweep of linen…

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Broome Police Chief on Dereliction Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 3

PERTH, Tuesday.—Charged with dereliction of duty, Police Inspector J. D. Cowie, until recently of the C.I.B. at Broome, will appear before…

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Women in Industry: Court Problem

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY: The position of women in industry was before Judge O'Mara in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day…

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Bread Delivery on Monday Court Will Decide To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 2

The Full Industrial Commission will decide in Sydney to-day whether bread should be delivered on Monday. Slight confusion exists concerning…

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Police Witness Absent Magistrate Opposes Adjournment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 7

"The police are not going to run this Court," Mr. A. G. Hardwick, S.M., said in Newcastle Police Court yesterday, when the Police…

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Police Court (Before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 7

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Arthur Oswald Sutton, 52, labourer, was fined £2 for having used indecent language in Throsby-street, Wickham, on…

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Nurses Sentenced to Death in Germany

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 3

LONDON, April 1.—It is reported from Zurich (Switzerland) that two Red Cross nurses in Germany have been sentenced to death for selling…

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Protect Women, Says Judge Man Gaoled for Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 5

Ernest Schmidt, 20, was sentenced yesterday at Maitland Quarter Sessions to three years' imprisonment after he had been found guilty of…

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Commandos Find Police Tough

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 2

LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—Britain's toughest troops—Commandos—met their match at Southend when they clashed with…

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Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 2

The theft of a six months' old Ringer Persian cat has been reported to the police by Mrs. R. Bailey, of Scott Street. Newcastle…

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Police Court (Before Mr. A. G. Hardwick, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 April 1942 · page 5

REMANDED.—Arthur Thomas Richards, 35, fitter's labourer, was remanded to April 14 on £20 bail on charges of having driven a car while under the…

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Mexican Police Arrest Japs Near Border

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 April 1942 · page 1

MEXICO CITY, April 2.—Federal police arrested 16 Japanese found operating a secret wireless near the United States border at Chihuahua…

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