Police Chief Once Arson Suspect
Police Superintendent S. McCarthy was once suspected of arson by police while he was chasing a firebug at Murwillumbah in 1934. He told the…
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Courts & crime, 1944
1,582 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 49 of 80
Taxation Day at Court
A number of people were fined at Newcastle Summons Court today for not furnishing income tax returns or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Against More V.D. Power for Police
SYDNEY, Tuesday.âA conference called by the United Associations of Women protested against any extension of police powers to deal with…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Knotty Lunch-hour Problem for Court
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Judge Perdriau was set a problem in the Workers' Compensation Court. He had to consider whether injuries…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Owen Roe O'Neill, 29, radiologist, was charged at Central Court with having assaulted Elisie Winifred Olsen and…
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INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—Steve Raymond Bennett, 24, naval rating, was fined £2 for indecent behaviour in Scott-street. Newcastle, on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Courts Police Court Stole Radio Set. (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Hold SM)
Pleading guilty to having stolen a mantel radio set valued at £5 the property of Martin Joseph Kipping at Newcastle on July 28. James Henry…
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SYDNEY. — The Full Bench of the High Court of Australia today decided that the National Security (Economic…
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WITHDRAWN.—In the adjourned Case in which Allan Gordon Dugan, 28, former police constable, was charged with having had, in a house at…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Frank Hannan O'Reilly, industrial chemist, of Rose Bay, appeared at the Quarter Sessions before Judge Holt on a…
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MELBOURNE.—Giving evidence in his defence in the Criminal Court today. John Ernest Turnbull, 28. soldier, said when he…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Industrial authorities established by the Commonwealth under the Coal production (Wartime) Act of 1944 are bound by the wage pegging and rates-of-pay variation provisions of the National Security…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Courts Newcastle Police Division (Before Mr. E. R. Harvey, S.m.) Stolen Bolts
William John Brydon, 39. Joiner, who pleaded guilty to having stolen eight bolts valued, at 3s. the properly of the BHP on July 17, was bound over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court (Before Mr. E. R. Harvey, S.m.)
BOND IN THEFT CASE.âThe offence was proved, but defendant was discharged conditionally on entering into a £10 bond to be of good behaviour, for 12…
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MELBOURNE. Friday.—Samuel Black, law student, of Storey-street Parkville, has been in gaol since December because he refuses to make…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court to Hear Dispute "Ironworkers' Policy Causes Unrest"
SYDNEY, Friday.—A compulsory conference was held before Mr. Justice Cantor, of the Industrial Commission, between the Federated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Courts Police Court Charge Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M.)
Donald Ball, 24, soldier, pleaded guilty to charges of drunkenness. having used threatening words to George Sydney Henderson, and also having used…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Say Man Ran Amok: Engineer Charged
The possibility that he had been given a "Micky Finn", a knockout drink of some notoriety in the United States, was suggested by a man who allegedly had stabbed two men and assaulted another in Newcastle on August 10, according…
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INDECENT OFFENCE.—On a charge of having wilfully exposed himself to a seven-year-old girl at Parnell Place, Newcastle, on May 22. Thomas Joseph…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—William Phibbs, 48, slaughterman, of Kensington, was charged with the murder of Mrs. Nellie Shears, 53, at the…
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