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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

1,567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 79

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 6

REMANDED.—A remand to June 10 was granted in the case in which Robert Douglas, 47, carpenter, was charged with having assaulted Leonard McNally at…

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Five Charged Detective Assaulted at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 4

Five men, including a soldier, appeared before Mr. C. G. Carr Boyd, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court yesterday, on charges of having…

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Thefts Reported to the Police

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 2

Three persons have informed the Newcastle Police that generators were stolen from their bicycles at the Islington Technical College…

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520 Ratings in Police Line-up

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In evidence in a ease in which Bruce Allan Payne, sailor, was charged with having assaulted and robbed two men in Hyde…

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Fined £20 for Refusing to Answer Police

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 April 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY: A fine of £20 was imposed on Prank Griffiths. Kellett Street. Darlinghurst, 27, by Mr. Wood. SM. in the Traffic…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 7

WOMEN GAOLED.—Convicted of agrancy, Florence Elizabeth Dunlop, 27, in a part-heard case, was sentenced to three months' Imprisonment. "It seems…

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Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 2

The latest theft of telephone equipment to be reported to Newcastle police is from Mayfield. Somebody has stolen the…

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Tennis Court Lease Cancelled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 4

Owing to decline in membership, Merewether Methodist Tennis Club asked Greater Newcastle Council to terminate its tenancy of the tennis…

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Premiers Refuse to Accept Uniform Tax May Go To Court If Plan Forced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The State Premiers to-night rejected the plan put before them to-day by the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) for uniform taxation…

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Despite Gaol Break Insurance Valid

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 3

NEW YORK.—Supreme Court Justice Gerald Nolan ruled to-day that unless specifically provided. a beneficiary is not…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 8

DRIVER CHARGED.—Joseph Victor Owens, 45, tramdriver, pleaded "Guilty" to having been found drunk while employed as a tram driver, in…

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Three Years for Assault and Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 7

SINGLETON, Thursday.—At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Aubrey Errol Nowland, 22, married, was sentenced to three years imprisonment for…

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Police Transfers

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 5

Police transfers announced to-day by the Superintendent of the North-eastern Police District (Mr. A. H. C. Jones) were—…

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Young Women Assaulted Four Men, Two Youths Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—How a young woman was allegedly assaulted by five men in a paddock at Botany on April 12 was related at a special Court at…

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Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 4

While he was taking a bath at a city hotel. somebody entered his bedroom and stole £3 10s from a wallet in his coat. which was…

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Police Want Owner for Lost Money

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 3

Newcastle police are holding a considerable sum of money. and they would like to get in touch with its owner…

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Woman Attacked in Brownout, Police Are Told

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 4

A complaint has been made to Newcastle police by Sylvia Parker. of Young-road. Broadmeadow, that as she was riding a bicycle past…

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Woman Charged with Theft of 58 Pigs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1942 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—A charge that Patricia Bartlett, 27, had last night stolen a motor-lorry and 58 pigs of a total value of £790 from Homebush…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1942 · page 8

REMANDS.—With the consent of the police, David O'Neill, 43, wharf labourer, was granted a further remand to May 1 on a charge of having stolen…

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Further Denials Interview at Long Bay Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Further denials that a reporter of a Sydney afternoon newspaper had interviewed Mrs. Catherine Thompson at Long Bay…

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