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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

1,567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 79

Police Want More Power to Combat Pillaging

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 April 1942 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—To enable them to deal more effectively with widespread pillaging from cargoes while vessels are in port, the police…

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In the Courts Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.m.) Indecent Language

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 April 1942 · page 2

Horace joseph Lawless, 30, traveller did not appear when called to answer a charge of using indecent language in jerry's Cafe. Scoot Street. On April 7…

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Wasting Time of Court, Said the Magistrate

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY: "It seems a pity that men who may never be called up for military service should waste the maigstrate's time with…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 4

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—William Townsend, 58, seaman, was fined £1/10/ for having used indecent language, and 10/ for having been drunk, in…

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130 Native Seamen Go to Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—For more than three hours to-day police patrol waggons collected and transported from a Sydney wharf to the Water…

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Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 4

Not content with stealing the clock off the dashboard of Roy Galtes's car which was parked outside his home in…

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Boys Charged With House Robberies

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY: Three youths, aged 15, 16 and 17. were arrested in Surry Hills yesterday by Detective-Sergeant Boswell of…

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

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

FURTHER REMAND.—A further remand to April 21 won granted in the eases in which Alfred Blanchard Power, 57, was charged with having driven a…

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Son on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 3

GOSFORD, Thursday.—Thomas Edward Foster, 32, labourer, Woy Woy, was charged in the Gosford Police Court this afternoon…

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New York Police Scandal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 3

NEW YORK, April 9.—An extraordinary grand jury for the investigation of graft has uncovered the greatest corruption scandal in the…

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Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 4

The theft from his car of a key ring with an ignition and other keys attached, has been reported to Newcastle police by Dr…

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In the Courts Police Division Chinese Assaulted

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 April 1942 · page 2

Patrick Byrnes, 56, and James LeoQuan, 39, seamen, were charged with assaulting Tominy Wah at Union Street, Newcastle, on April 9, and with…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1942 · page 6

WOMAN CONVICTED.—Alma Morgan, 21, was sentenced to 14 days' Imprisonment for having stolen, at Newcastle, on February 13, a gold…

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Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 April 1942 · page 3

Wynne Ople, of Ocean View Flats, Mitchell street, Stockton, has reported to the police the theft of a Chevrolet sedan from…

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"Tried to Destroy Police Association"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—The President of the Police Association (Mr. R. Driscoll) to-day told the annual conference of the Public Service…

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Full Court Ruling On Wage Decision

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 April 1942 · page 4

PERTH.—The Arbitration Court has a right to refuse to increase the basic wage, though the statistician's report shows an increase…

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Murder Case Mentioned

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY: The case of Trevor Edward Pemberton, or Strong, 10, a taker, who was charged with the murder of Alfred Tuckwell at…

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Canal Murder Trial Identified Daughter's Clothing

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY: Mrs. Florence Emily May Pelsley, of Excelsior Street, Leichhardt, in the Central Criminal Court to-day, identified the…

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Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 April 1942 · page 2

John Burden of Taplan Street, Wallsend has reported to the police that his boatshed at Brush Creek has been broken into and…

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Doctor's Allegation in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 April 1942 · page 3

LITHGOW: Personal hatred of him by other local doctors because he had not purchased a practice in the…

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