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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

1,567 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 79

In the Courts Police Court Offensive Behavior

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 2

Charged with behaving in an offensive manner and with using indecent language in Maitland-road on February 10, mervyn Meale, 20, after of Islington…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 5

CLAIM FOR RENT.—Harold William Arthur Cole, farmer, of Medowie, via Raymond Terrace, made a claim for £11/12/6 against Arthur Price, of…

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Attempt to Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the Central Police Court to-day William James Atkinson, 64, wharf gate-keeper, was charged with having, on…

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Stand Trial for Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 4

LAUNCESTON, Tuesday.—George Walter Martin, 22, was committed for trial on a charge of murder at the close of the Deloraine inquest…

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Lost Family in Air Raids Magistrate Gives Seaman Chance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 7

A seaman who lost his wife and two children in air raids over Bristol and whose father and brother were killed in the retreat from Dunkirk…

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London's Women Military Police

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday (A.A P.).—Women military police were on duty in the streets of London for the first time yesterday…

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Police Patrols Will Be Strengthened

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY.—Fifty trained police reservists may be called up to increase police patrols in the brown-out, said the Chief…

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Police Chief Wrong, Says Judge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Judge Studdert in the Appeals Court to-day said he was satisfied that the opinion of the Commissioner of Police on…

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Court Martial in Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY: Gunner Norman William McLeod a member of an antitank regiment of the Australian military forces, was…

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U.s. Police Guard Jap Consul

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 2

Stalwart police had to clear a way through the crowd in Fifth Avenue to enable the Japanese Casual-General in New York. Morita Morishima, to leave hit office and reach his home, after Japan's treacherous attack on Hawaii had be come known in America…

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New Trial Granted at District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 8

Albert Victor Sidebottom, of the Royal Hotel, Waratah, was yesterday granted a new trial by Judge Nield at Newcastle District Court…

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Not Guilty on Three Counts Court-Martial's Verdict

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Gunner Norman William McLeod, 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, was found not guilty on three of the four charges…

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Police Will Be Told of Breaches in To-night's Blackout

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 February 1942 · page 1

Blackout regulations will be strictly enforced in Newcastle to-night during the surprise one-hour test of the whole Australian coastline, which has been ordered by the Minister for Home Security (Mr. Lazzarini)…

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Thefts Reported to Police

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 4

Only two bicycles were reported stolen to the police to-day. The owners were Wallace John Reynolds, of Ackeron Street,…

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In Court To-day Police Division (Before Mr. S.G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Adjourned Cases

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 2

Edwin Cecil Dark, 51 laborer, ws charged on remand with having driven a motor vehicle negligently in Hunter-street, on December 27, 1041…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 9

OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—For having behaved offensively in Maitland-road, Islington, on Tuesday night, Raymond Francis Jordan, 20, labourer…

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Man Charged with Harbor Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY: Robberies, firearms and the alleged murder of a man whose body was found in the harbor last Wednesday were…

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Five Years' Gaol for Youth's Crime

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 4

SYDNEY.—Thomas Frederick Noel Moren. 19, who was sentenced in the Quarter Sessions yesterday to five years'…

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Obey Wardens in Blackouts Gaol for Disobedience

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 4

CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Minister for Home Security (Mr. Lazzarini) will support the States in adopting regulations providing for…

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Thefts Reported to Police

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1942 · page 4

The owners of three bicycles have reported to the police that their machines have been stolen. Then are Leonard Martin…

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