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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

1,567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 79

Prominent Indian Hunted by Bombay Police

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 August 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.—The Bombay police arrested Dr. K. N. Narola, a prominent AR.P officer, and seized firearms and ammunition…

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Indian Riots More Police Have Been Killed

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 August 1942 · page 4

NEW DELHI, Saturday, —More policemen have been killed by [?]loting Indian mobs, who have looted post offices and wrecked…

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Body in Yarra May Solve Police Puzzle

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 August 1942 · page 4

MELBOURNE. — After the week-end detectives hope to be able to say whether a man found drowned in the River…

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Maddened Indian Mobs Police Stoned, Burned to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 August 1942 · page 3

LONDON, August 21.—Maddened nobs in two areas of the Central Provinces killed five police and four officials at the week-end. A…

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Charged With Killing Twin Brother

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 August 1942 · page 5

BURROWA, Sunday.—On a charge of having murdered his twin brother, Edward a few miles from Burrowa on Friday night, Patrick Maloney, US,…

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In the Courts Other Courts on Page 2. Two Miners Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 August 1942 · page 2

Two miners were charged, with an offence known in mining circles as "swapping tokens" at the instance of the Blip Company owners of Burwood…

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Police on Field at Adamstown Shouts, Jeers, Fights At Soccer Match

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 August 1942 · page 2

Two players were fighting in the centre of the field, others were arguing, and several were struggling with a spectator intruder on the playing…

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In the Courts Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd SM) [?] BETTING

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 August 1942 · page 3

Leonard Hancock., [?] baker, was fined £15, or 30 days imprisonment for SP betting at 31 George Street Tighe's Hill on August 22…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 August 1942 · page 4

SENTENCE SUSPENDED.—Unrepresented, John Charles Mills, 34, carpenter, pleaded "Not guilty" to having stolen at Hamilton, between March 18…

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Croats Sentenced to Death for Assaulting Nazis

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 August 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.—A German mobile military tribunal at Zemum (Yugoslavia) has sentenced to death 18 Croats of Starapozave and…

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Smuggler of Nazi Loot Sent to Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 August 1942 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday. — Werner von Clemm, former German artillery officer and now a naturalised American, who is a cousin…

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Miners Charged Evidence on Marking of Skips

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 August 1942 · page 4

Two miners, Keith Donald Fallins, 32. and Richard Harold Williams, 26, appeared before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., in Newcastle Police Court…

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"Liquor Law Winked At" Time to Call Halt, Says Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 August 1942 · page 3

After a solicitor at the West Maitland Court yesterday had claimed that the law in regard to liquor was being "winked at" the Police…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 August 1942 · page 6

BOUND OVER.—Pleading "Guilty" to having stolen, at Newcastle, on March 26, a suit of clothes and a top plate of false teeth, valued at £9, the property…

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Charged With Attempt to Blow Man Up

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 August 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Bail was refused Frank Stevens, 56, to-day, when he was remanded at the Central Police Court on a charge of…

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Pastor Gets Ten Years' Gaol on Spying Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 August 1942 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Lutheran pastor and former Austrian army officer. Kurt Molzahn, was sentenced at Hartford…

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Inquiry Into Attempted Murder of Pawnbroker

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 August 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY: Eric Kelly continued his evidence on oath before the Commission which is inquiring whether he had…

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Knew He Could Be Charged Prisoner's Admission of Shooting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 August 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Leslie Lang, a prisoner in Long Bay Coal said to-day at Darlinghurst Court, that he was fully aware that his…

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Police Division (Before Mr. W. G. Brown. Sm) Drunken Driver Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 August 1942 · page 2

Charles William Knight pleaded guilty to driving a motor car along Fullerton Road. North Stockton, on August 25. a[?]ile under the influence of drink…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 August 1942 · page 6

INTOXICATED DRIVER.—Charles William Knight, 35, tractor driver, who pleaded "Guilty" to having driven a car along Fullerton-road. North…

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