Three Granted Bail on Murder Charge
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Three of the four people charged with the murder of Donald Day on January 29 were each allowed £500 bail to-day…
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Courts & crime, 1945
1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 94
Court for Women Who Disobey Job Order
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Immediate prosecutions had been recommended against hundreds of women who failed to obey manpower…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Police Commissioner (Mr. MacKay) has asked the State Government to amend the Police Offences Act to…
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After Raymond Howland, 34, a laborer, had induced the wife of his brother-in-law to leave her home on the pretext that her child had been injured, he stole tools valued at £10…
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"I'll take it cut," declared Albert V. Taylor, after being fined £1 and 8s costs, or three days' imprisonment at the Police Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
FOR TRIAL.—A youth who kept a diary of his exploits, and was out on licence, was committed for trial an two charges of breaking and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Gaol Discipline Laxity in 1940 Alleged
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—"Discipline was so lax at Maitland Gaol about November, 1940, when Mr. Dunn was Governor, that…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At Central Court, Athol James Lennox, 36 builder's labourer of Adelaide-street Surry Hills, was charged with the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Millicent Tangga, 49, domestic, was charged in Central Court with the murder of Margaret Holmes on February 11…
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MELBOURNE: Sequel to a "pick-up" at Luna Park, St. Kilda, and a jaunt to the hills was told in the Criminal Court…
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BRISBANE.—To assist in checking cargo pillaging in Brisbane four men will be added to the police squad, says the State Cargo Control…
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SYDNEY.—A man who stole £4889 from his employer and spent it in betting was sentenced by Judge Barton at the Quarter Sessions today…
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LONDON, February 15. A.A.P.—Two or three hours before it was officially announced that American heavy bombers were over Germany today, the German "achtung" radios transmitted, at…
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Alfred Stephen Bashford, 20. soldier, at Newcastle Police Court to-day was committed for trial at New-castle Quarter Sessions on April 16…
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MANILA, Thursday.—Savage slaughter of Filipino civilians in Manila by Japanese troops in the past week is a chapter of unbelievable horrors. THE trapped garrison has turned…
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UNLAWFUL POSSESSION CHARGE.—After evidence had been given by two witnesses a further adjournment to April 12, to permit the attendance of…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thursday.—An unusual plea of "Guilty" in a murder case was entered by Alan Stuart James, 38, orchardist, to…
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LONDON, February 15. A.A.P.—John Prescott Hallett, believed to be Sydney-born, a former R.A.F. wing commander and former…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Many thousand ration coupons alleged to have been forged and £2000 worth of shoes were seized by police when they…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—At the City Quarter Sessions, Lister James Bradshaw, 46, accountant, who had a criminal record, was sentenced to…
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