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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

1,509 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 76

In The Courts Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Indecent Language

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

David N. Lewis, 37, stacker, was fined £2 or four days imprisonment, for using indecent language in Steward Avenue, Hamilton, on January 11…

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Final Tank Assault on Buna

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 1

PAPUA.—GIROPI FOINT: Australian manned General Stuart tanks bust Japanese pillboxes in the final assault on Buna. (1)…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 5

REMANDED.—Frederick Marshall, 43, boilermaker, was remanded until January 18 on charges of having stolen at Hamilton, between January 1 and…

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Stop Press Darlan's Murder Investigation

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 1

London, Tuesday. (AAP).— Charged with instigating the murder or Admiral Darlan, a group of men have been…

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Two Men for Trial New Lambton Theft Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 4

Charged at the conclusion of the police evidence, Nehl pleaded "Guilty" and Ferguson "Not guilty" in the part-heard cases against…

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Negro in Court After Stabbing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A negro soldier, Daniel Hunt, 35, when arrested after a stabbing affray by a constable yesterday, said: "Shoot me…

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Absentee Cases Night Court to Be Held on

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 3

A special night court has been arranged for Friday at 7.30 o'clock, to hear a number of charges against employees who…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1943 · page 2

Sydney Herbert: Nehl, 31, laborer, and Roy Allan Ferguson, 28, hotelkeeper, were committed for trial to the Quarter Sessions at Newcastle on February [?]…

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For Trial Man Charged With Theft, Fraud

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 5

With bail of £50 in each case, Kenneth Cooley, 48. journalist, was committed' for trial by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., in Newcastle Police…

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Fijians Charged with Desertion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 1

Twenty-five Fijian mission boys dressed in native costume were charged to-day with having deserted their ship. At the request of the…

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Absentee Preferred Gaol to Bond

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—When asked by Mr. Atkinson at Central Police Court to-night if he consented to be bound over when he pleaded…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 6

COMMITTAL.—On a charge or breaking, encering and stealing, with which was merged a receiving charge. William Learmonth Miller, 25, metal…

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Failed To Enr[?] Imposed Gaol Penalty

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 2

Victor Edgar Hamilton, 30, an artist, a single man, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for…

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Court-martial Find Major Not Guilty

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Major Norman Kingsley Strack, 48, was found not guilty by a general court-martial yesterday on a charge…

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Not Referred to Government Police and Manpower Regulations

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—No reference had been made to the Government about any move to have the Police Force removed from the list…

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In The Courts Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. Sm) Metal Worker for Trial

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 2

William Learmonth Miller. 25, metal worker, was committed for trial yesterday afternoon, on charges of breaking, entering, stealing, and receiving,…

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£450 Jewellery Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—The theft of £450 worth of Jewellery from a lonely bush hut at Beverley HIlLs, Captain's Flats, has been reported to…

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Soldier Attacked Girl, Is Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—An AWL soldier, Harold Athol Ackroyd. 21, appeared at Newtown Court to-day on two charges of assault with intent…

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Heavy Rain Delays Assault on Sanananda

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 3

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, Thursday.—New developments in the Papuan campaign cannot be expected in the…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 4

FOUND IN SHELTER.—I was drunk, and did not know where I was," said Cedric Claude Mitchell, 22, labourer, who pleaded "Guilty" of having…

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