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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

1,567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 56 of 79

Nazis Try Murder To Beat Typhus

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 September 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday: Germans tried to stamp out an outbreak of typhus among a batch of Yugoslay prisoners in Norway by…

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Soldier in Court on Charge of Felonious Slaying

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 September 1942 · page 2

CASINO.—John Raymond Wilson (25), of the AIF, was charged in court to-day with having feleniously slain charles Leslie…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 4

£1300 INVOLVED.—"Property valued about £1300 was involved," said the Police Prosecutor (Sgt. W. G. Wallace), referring to a series of breaking,…

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Aunt Remanded on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 4

PERTH, Thursday.—On a charge of the wilful murder of her niece, Katie Ashby, 9, Jane Margaret Hamilton Veitch was remanded…

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Prisoners Fight Escort Three Get Six Months' Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 6

Evidence of a vicious attack made by three prisoners on two gaol warders or a train at Waratah station on July 4 was given by one of the…

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Murder Theory Missing Sentry's Body Found in Sea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The body of Gunner John Hulston, '18-year-old sentry, who disappeared from a military camp in the Queenscliff…

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Police Fire Shots and Storm House in Belfast

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday.—Crouching behind lorries police fired 100 shots in quarter of an hour before they stormed a house in…

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In The Courts (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, Sm) Police Division Vagrancy

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 September 1942 · page 2

"Will you send the to Morriset so that I can get myself squared up." pleaded Bernard Vincent Kerney, who was charged with vagrancy…

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Soldier Charged With Murder Attempt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.—When Robert Joseph Edward Saxon, attached to a garrison battalion, walked into the Marlbyrnong police…

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Murder in French Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 1

LONDON, September 11.—A Berlin news agency says that a dangerous terrorist was sitting in the dock awaiting the sentence of the Court…

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Sp Betting Police Say Gaol Is Only Cure

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Imprisonment of SP bookmakers is the only may to stamp out illegal betting, in the opinion…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 8

VAGRANCY,—Sentence of imprisonment for two months was imposed on Bernard Vincent Kerney, 99, labourer, for vagrancy. Constable Beauzeville…

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Gaol or R.a.a.f. for Clerk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—In the Quarter Sessions to-day, John Milton Cardow, 25, a former bank clerk, now in the R.A.A.F., was released…

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M.H.R. Faces Court Martial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Before an Air Force Court Martial this afternoon, Aircraftman Sydney Max Falstein, M.H.R., was charged with having…

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In the Courts Police Division (Before Mr. C. W. Naylor, Jp) Men Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 September 1942 · page 3

Donald Gordon Lawson, 19, soldier, was charged with, that on September 9, be stole from the premises of Abner Cardenrana, Hamilton, a pocket…

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In The Courts Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. Bm) Indecent Language

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 September 1942 · page 2

[?] R. Littlejohn, D. soldier, was fined £3 or six day's imprisonment for using indecent language in Hunter Street on September 12…

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Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 September 1942 · page 4

Mr. Aruthur Hency Lestle, of [?] Highway. Adamstown who on Friday missed five valves from his wireless set after thleves had broken into his…

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Reinstatement of Employee Judge Doubts Powers of the Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 September 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY: judge O'Mara in the Arbitration Court today said that It was doubtful whether the Court had power to override a…

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Judge's Warning Gaol for Theft of Rationed Goods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 September 1942 · page 6

"In any case coming before me involving the theft of rationed goods I will impose a term of imprisonment, whether the theft is from…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 September 1942 · page 4

SOLDIER REMANDED.—On the application of the Assistant Police Prosecutor (Constable E. G. King), Donald Gordon Lawson, 19, soldier, was remanded until…

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