High Police Officers Not Retired
SYDNEY. — "If high-ranking policeman were retained in their jobs after they reached retiring age. the present system of…
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Courts & crime, 1943
1,509 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 76
Police Allow Secretary to Give Statements
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—After a stormy debate the conference of the New South Wales Police Association to-day rejected a motion that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In The Courts NEWCASTLE Quarter Sessions (Before Judge Nield) Assault and Robbery Charge
William Henry Thomas Charles Smith, 20, seamen, was charged with having assaulted Mauritius van de Liet at Carrington on March 18 and robbed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Powers in Dispute Lighting Contracts
There was long legal argument before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., in Newcastle Petty Sessions yesterday, on the Court's jurisdiction in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sentenced to Gaol for Life
The maximum penalty of penal servitude for life was imposed upon William Henry Thomas Charles Smith, 20,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol for Assault on Newcastle Man
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At Darlinghurst Sessions, Frederick Grenfell Hall, 22, naval rating, was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaol Sentence Doubled
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A sentence of three months imposed upon Louis Phillips for having failed to attend for medical examination was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
UNLAWFUL ASSAULT.—"I would like you to be as lenient as you can; I have a wife and a couple of kiddies." said Percival George Ervine, 27…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Penal Servitude for Life Seaman Sentenced at Sessions
Found "Guilty" at Newcastle Sessions yesterday of having assaulted Mauritius Van de Liet, a Dutch seaman, at Carrington on the night of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gaol for Seven Years for Army Officer
SYDNEY. — In the Central Criminal Court to-day, Guy Lyth Lambert 48, Captain Paymaster in the Army Department, who had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Old Feud Said Police
SYDNEY. Wednesday.—At Central Court, Francis Victor Bolster, 32, fireman, was remanded to April 21 on a charge of having maliciously…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Not Concerned with Military" Month's Gaol For Failure to Enrol
Questioned about a statement in a letter that he was not concerned with the military because of his Christian beliefs, George Wright, of Pelican…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—A motion that police at the retiring age of 60 should lose their rank when ordered by manpower authorities to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →University Issue for High Court
SYDNEY.—By a majority verdict, the State Full Court to-day decided that it had no power to deal with the application by…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—All appeal by Arthur Jesse Steel, 39, against a sentence of three months' imprisonment for theft was dismissed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Seven Years' Gaol for Paymaster
SYDNEY, Thursday.—At Central Criminal Court, Guy Lyth Lambert, 48, captain paymaster in the Army Department, who had pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Petty Theft Caused Fatal Crossing Smash
AUCKLAND, Thursday.—In a level-crossing smash between a train and a motor-bus at Kaiapo, North Canterbury, last night, a woman was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
STOOD OVER.—Mr. H. L. O'Neill (Messrs. Johnson and O'Neill) asked that the application of Stuart Charles Ranclaud, Mayfield, of military…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Russian Bayonet Charge Halts New German Assault
LONDON, April 15.—Fighting has again broken out in the Isyum sector of the Donetz front in Russia, where the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol Term for Proprietor of Cocoanut Grove
BOSTON. Thursday. — Barnett Welansky. owner of the Coconut Grove Night Club, who was convicted on 19 counts of…
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