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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

1,509 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 34 of 76

Slaughtermen's Defiance Referred by Court to Mr. Curtin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission directed that the refusal of beef slaughtermen at Homebush Abattoir…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 6

RECEIVED PETROL.—Pleading "Guilty" of having had 6½, gallons of petrol and a petrol drum, well knowing them to have been stolen, at…

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Father Remanded for Murder of Child

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Arising from the death of Pamela Craik 6, from a bullet wound, her father Donald Lawrence Craik, 32, and…

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High Court Acquittal in Canteens Case

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 June 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE — By direction of Mr. Justice Starke to day. the special Jury in the High Court acquitted Herbert James Allen,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1943 · page 4

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—"He tried to stop too girls, and when they avoided him he used the language," said Sergeant Gibbons, when Thomas Derby…

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Gaol Strike Conspirators New U.S. Measure

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1943 · page 3

WASHINGTON, June 10.—A joint conference of committees of the Senate and House of Representatives approved a measure to fine and…

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High Court Decision Against University

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 June 1943 · page 1

MELBOURNE. — By a majority decision the High Court to-day directed that a writ of mandamus be Issued commanding the…

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Chinese Charged With Manslaughter

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 June 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY.—Chin Sing, 58, a Chinese laborer, was remanded at Central Court to-day on a charge of having feloniously slain…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1943 · page 6

SOLDIER FINED.—For behaving offensively in the Railway Cafe. Scott-street using indecent language, and assaulting Arthur Silva, on Thursday…

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Maitland Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1943 · page 6

No criminal cases have been listed for the sitting of the Circuit Court before Mr. Justice Maxwell, at the East Maitland Courthouse, on Tuesday…

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Refused to Take Oath Six Men Sent to Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 June 1943 · page 6

Six men who refused to take the oath of allegiance, being liable to do non-combatant duties., were each sentenced to three months'…

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Ex-vicar Sentenced

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 2

LONDON — George Thomas Knight (581). former vicar of St. Bartholomew's Bradford, of Law Street. Denton was sentenced to…

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Fatal Stabbing, Man Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—In an affray at the corner of Park and Elizabeth Streets, City, shortly before 8 o'clock last night Pte, Esmond Davis, 24…

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Rugby Union U.s. Player's Grand Debut with Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 4

Believed to be the only American serviceman playing first-grade in Australia R. Gade made a brilliant…

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Court Dismissals In Argentina

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 1

BUENOS AIRES, June 13.—The Argentine Government has dismissed six Judges and two State prosecutors for "lacking probity balance."…

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Police Appeals Inquiry to Be in Open

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY. — Certain evidence would not be forthcoming unless taken in camera, Mr. S. G. Webb sold to-day on the appeals of…

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In The Courts Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. 8M) Sp Betting

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 June 1943 · page 2

Joseph T. Price. 31. laborer was fined £20 or 40 days imprisonment for Sp betting in the bar of the Adamstown Hotel, on June 11…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 3

ILLEGAL BEETING.—Joseph Thomas Price 31, labourer, was charged with at Adamstown, on June 11, having used the bar of a hotel for the purpose of…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 3

Thirteen undefended petitions were heard by Mr. Justice Boonies at the first day a sitting of the Matrimonial Causes Court at Newcastle. Decision…

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In The Courts Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, Sm) Insulting Words

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 2

John Patrick Murphy, 48, hotel manager Greta, was charged with using insulting words to Gerisomos Orivas at the Railway Cafe, Scott Street, on…

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