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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

1,582 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 80

The Courts Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, SM) Police Division Indecent Behavior

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 May 1944 · page 2

Thomas [?] Henderson, [?] pensioner, was fined £2, or four days' imprisonment, for indecent behavior in Scott Street…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 May 1944 · page 4

ILLEGAL BETTING.—"He had a record of 373 bets, ranging from 6d to £2," said Constable Beauzeville, when William Joseph Henderson, 19,…

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Police Warned on Search Warrants

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A warning to police to be chary of executing warrants to search for stolen goods as they might land themselves in…

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High Court Appeal on Black Liquor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 May 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Application was made to the Full High Court that special leave be granted David Blank, 24, Gordon Casey, 24,…

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Charged with Murder of Wife

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 4

IPSWICH, Tuesday.—Colin Lindsay Waters, 22, Australian soldier, appeared at the Court of Petty Sessions on a charge of having murdered…

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Acquitted of Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mrs. Thelma Linnell Cook, 31, who had pleaded "Not guilty" to having murdered her husband, Donald Sydney. Linnell…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 6

STRUCK OUT.—When Edward Sandford, 61, wharf labourer, was charged with having assaulted Cornelius Wharton, at Newcastle, on May 10, Wharton,…

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Four Sent to Gaol for Fraud

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Four men were convicted for a military fraud involving the taking of Common, wealth money at the Quarter…

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Jockey Coutts in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A Crown allegation that John Milton Coutts, 34, jockey, was under the influence of liquor when he drove a car at…

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The Courts Newcastle Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, Sm) No Evidence

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 2

When the charges against Allan J. Coughlan 28 laborer and Robert Rose 52 laborer of aiding and abetting in the unlawful sale of beer at…

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Car Driver Charged with Manslaughter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wed.—Following the accident at St. Mary's when a man and his wife lost their lives and another man was seriously injured,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 4

DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when Allan James Coughlan, 38, labourer, and Robert Rose, 52, labourer, were charged with…

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Police Advice To Hoarders

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 3

"It is most undesirable for private individuals to have large sums of money in their homes," said Sup[?]dent S. McCarthy…

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High Court Judge Rebukes Counsel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Mr. Justice Starke, in the Full High Court, asked Mr. Sugarman, K.C. (for the Commonwealth) why it was…

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Betting Service for Gaol Alleged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Allegations that he had been taking newspapers to prisoners at Pentridge Gaol for the purpose of accepting…

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Robbery at Stockton; Man Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 3

The part-heard case against Harold S. Ward, 32, metal polisher, of breaking, entering and stealing from the store of…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 6

REMANDED.—On charges of having had in his possession at Carrington, on Wednesday, 55lb of copper wire, reasonably suspected of having been…

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Chicago Police to Help Cupid

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 1

CHICAGO, Thursday.—Cupid will get a break in lovers' lanes around Chicago in future. Police Captain Wilbur…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 June 1944 · page 6

REMANDED.—Applying for a remand in the case against Ronald Maxwell Grant, 18, labourer, charged with having escaped from the custody of…

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NEWCASTLE Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Curr-Boyd, Sms Unprotected Bread

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 June 1944 · page 3

Dudley Walkin Tooke Street. Cook's Hill, wsa fined £1 12s. with as costs. yesterday afternoon. for selling brand pot protected from dust and files…

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