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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

1,509 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 62 of 76

Direction to Police on Tail Lights

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday. — Where vehicles are parked in well-lighted streets, police have been instructed not to launch prosecutions because…

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Union Loses High Court Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—By a two-to-one majority the High Court to-day refused to prohibit Judge O'Mara from dealing further with…

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Verdict for £1000 at Circuit Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1943 · page 6

About three hours after retiring the jury returned a verdict for £1000 in favour of the plaintiff at Newcastle Circuit Court in the…

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In The Courts Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. Sm) No Lights

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 October 1943 · page 2

Henry Half. Wilkinson Street. Mayfield. was fined 4s 6d and 5s 6d costs for not having a reflector on his dec[?] William L. Bower. Union Street. tinghe's…

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Theft of Cheque Alleged

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE.—John Alexander Fettes, sergeant in the RAAF of Trinity College. Carlton, was committed for trial by…

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Manager of Mine Is Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 3

Charges of having caused absenteeism at Stanford Main No. 1 Colliery in September were made at a special sitting…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 8

TRAFFIC ACT.—William Ernest Tanner, at Anzac-parade. Newcastle, whose speed by ear wan checked at 48 miles an hour along Maitland-road, wan fined…

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Use British and U.S. Navies to Police World After War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 October 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—The plan to police the world after the war that was reported to have been discussed at the Quebec conference has…

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£1300 Sydney Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY.—More than £1300 in notes and sliver was stolen last night from a saft in the Mayfair Hotel, King's Cross. Apparently…

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Theft of Dangerous Explosives

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

Explosives which could be highly dangerous in the wrong hands are thought to be in the possession of children…

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Incitement Alleged President of Union Is Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY. — A union president was charged in Central Summons Court to-day with having urged the employees of a war factory…

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May Be Court Action Over Child

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24.—Shirley Hassan's aunt, Mrs. Florence Mullen, of San Francisco, said she was contemplating court action to determine…

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Appointment of Deputy Mine Manager Gives Court Reasons

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 October 1943 · page 3

At a special sitting of Cessnock Police Court over which Mr. R. Atkinson, S.M., presided on Saturday, George Pellow, manager of…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 4

INSULTING WORDS.—Norman Elliott Williams, 4, labourer, was fined £2 for having used insulting words to Sergeant Larkin at Cook's Hill on…

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Candlesticks Used to Murder Heiress

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday. — Detectives investigation the murder of an heiress have unearthed a love diary naming scores of well-known society personalities. The murdered woman was Mrs…

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Threat Story At Oakes Murder Trial

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 1

NASSAU (Bahamas), Monday. — The story of an alleged threat made by Count do Marigny against…

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High Court on Price of Clothes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—A notification to a tailoring firm to sell clothing at cost plus 20 per cent. was invalid because cost was not…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 October 1943 · page 2

The part-heard case against Leonard C. Devine, 24 turner, of having five bottles of wine in his custody, on October 2. suspected of having been…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 October 1943 · page 4

TRESPASSED ON RAILWAY.—Adye Frances Douglass, 45, salesman, and Robert John Hunt, 44, labourer, were each fined £5, or imprisonment for…

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Duke Of Windsor's Interest In Oakes Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 October 1943 · page 1

NASSAU, BAHAMAS. Tuesday.—The Interest taken by the Duke of Windsor Governor of the Bahamas in solving the murder…

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