Self-Defence Plea at Court Martial
WARWICK, Thursday.—A District Court Martial to-day began the hearing of the last of a series of charges arising from allegations of…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Struck Out Court Cases on Meat Prices
BRISBANE, Thursday.—A complaint against H. H. Keeley, butcher, of The Valley, Brisbane that he sold ramp steak on September 1…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Courts Newcastle Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. Sm) Soldier Gaoled
ROy Christian. 21, soldier, was chanted with Healing a wallet and £7 from Frank Schmedel, at Newcastle on January 8…
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TRAFFIC BREACH.—Frank Viggers, 50, manager, was fined £1/10/ for having failed to keep the centre line of the road on his right when…
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SYDNEY. — Alleged to have engaged in black market liquor transactions involving £645 over a period…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—According to the police prosecutor in Adelaide Police Court, Mrs. Martha Ellen Salter, 23, of Hope Valley, near…
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INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—Two men of the R.A.N., both with more than two years' service overseas, and now gunners on merchant vessels, were each…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Pleading "Guilty" in the Special Federal Court to three charges of having sold liquor at a price exceeding its…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—Revenge may have been the motive in the murder yesterday of Phillip John Beattie, 24, of Campsie, New South…
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A large quantity of groceries, household effects, and clothing was exhibited at Newcastle Police Court when Eric William George Bevan,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The body of James Davies, 65, married, of Arncliffe, was found to-day outside a shack on an allotment in Arncliffe…
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LONDON, Jan. 24.—The Bulgarian Government has decided to set up a new military police force on the lines of the German S.S., according…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →For High Court Maitland Abattoir Litigation
Notice of motion has been filed with the high Court for leave, to appeal against the decision of the Full Court on the registration of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Before Court on Saturday Manager, Owners of Abermain No. 2
SYDNEY, Monday.—Summonses were issued to-day against the Manager of Abermain No. 2 colliery and J. and A. Brown, Abermain-Seaham…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Detectives have rejected the theory that James Davies, 67, of Arncliffe, whose body was found on a vacant allotment…
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STOLE A BLANKET.—"Since coming to Newcastle you have developed into a drunkard. You have been shown a lot of leniency." The Magistrate said…
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MELBOURNE.—Low clo[?]is and a sea mist over Seaspray Beach on December 27 was described by pilots who gave evidence to-day…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The circumstances in which a man lost both feet and a girl lost her arms when they were struck by a cable trailing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Courts Newcastle Police Division Storekeeper Fined £50 (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, SM)
Norman Sutherland Sandeman. 3[?]. Storekeeper, of Salt Ash. who was convicted yesterday afternoon of stealing 2s gallons of petrol the property of…
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LONDON. Tuesday. — Eleven prisoners escaped from a cell under the London Sessions Court. Three were quickly recaptured. Every…
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