Court Told How Man Drowned Collision at Sea
MELBOURNE, Friday.—A Marine Court of Inquiry was held into the death of a Newcastle fireman, William Pring, who was drowned when…
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Courts & crime, 1944
1,582 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 58 of 80
Army Cook Fined For Stealing
"Pilfering has been going on at this camp for three years, but the defendant has not come under notice before," said Detective C. B…
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When police, led by Sergeant H. Larkin, paid a surprise visit at 10 o'clock last night to a place in Victoria Street, Adamstown, they found…
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Following the death of James Jamieson in Western Suburbs Hospital, Sydney two Newcastle men. Arthur Raymond Hancock, 44,…
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LONDON, Monday: An all out Allied assault against the Channel port of Calais began yesterday after one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—Robert John Hart, 42, invalid pensioner, was fined £3 or six days' imprisonment for indecent behaviour near the entrance to…
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SYDNEY, Monday—Frank Allen Pitt, 36, was sentenced in the Quarter Sessions to six years' imprisonment for having indecently assaulted his…
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Arthur Raymond Hancock, 44, taxi driver, and Douglas William Barr, 26, laborer, charged at Newcastle Police Court to-day with the murder of James Jamieson at Hamilton on September 24, were remanded until October 5 on £400 bail…
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GAOL FOR VAGRANT.— William George Carey, 66, labourer, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment on a charge of vagrancy. He pleaded…
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BECAUSE the charges representing development of original charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, on which the accused had been…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday.—New types of assault transports and assault cargo vessels, designed to carry troops and supplies direct to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Ernest Stanley Horsnell 18, soldier, was fined £2 for offensive behaviour in Hunter-street on Tuesday…
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A warning to business people in Newcastle to be on the alert in case an attempt is made to pass spurious £5 notes, which are…
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"The whole of the circumstances point irresistibly to the fact that the respondents were guilty of adultery, and I pronounce a decree nisi in…
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MELBOURNE.—On the charge of having murdered George Binns at Horsham on September 19. Donald McClean. 36, of Wilson Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.) Summons Division
ALLEGED ASSAULT.—An adjournment to Thursday was granted in the case, Alfred William Harper against John Morgan, alleged unlawful assault…
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FINED FOR STEALING.—Neville Rat Mackeway, 23, labourer, was, fined £3 for having stolen a pair of trousers and a shirt, the property of William…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Misuse of Tax Stamps Court Takes "Grave View"
"Two very grave risks have been taken. In future, the Court will seriously consider imposing terms of imprisonment in matters of this…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"More Beast Than Man" Husband Criticised at Divorce Court
"It is difficult to restrain oneself from using language to describe a man of the respondent's character except to say he appears to be more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier on Petrol Stealing Charge
On a charge of having stolen 60 gallons of petrol valued at £5, the property of the Commonwealth Government, at Wollongong on…
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