Knotty Problem for Police
N.E.S. Instructor H. Ware, of Sydney, shows Newcastle police how to knot and splice rope. The lesson is one of a cliff rescue course…
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Courts & crime, 1945
1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 94
Police Learn to Tie Knots
Thirty-four non-commissioned officers and men of Newcastle district police were given their first instruction yesterday in knot-tying and the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—As part of the plan to combat the greatest ship pillaging epidemic in Sydney's history, arrangements have been made for the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—If police had the right to detain a man for questioning unless he had been charged with an offence, they had as much…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The 800,000 butter ration coupons stolen from the Rationing Commission's offices in the week-end represent £33,000 to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—Conrad Gultorn Andresen, 38, seaman, was fined £2/10/ for having behaved Indecently in Newcomen-street…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Athol John Lennox, 30, was charged at Central Court to-day with the murder of William Charles Brady at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kurri Police Court (Before Mr. I. Beavers. P.m.) on Licensed Premises
Pleading guilty to having been found on the licensed promises of tin; Denman Hotel. Abermain. during prohibited hours on January 20. Edward Toner, Kenneth…
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AUCKLAND. — Martin Eyles, 45. waterside worker, was sentenced in the Napier Supreme Court yesterday to imprisonment for life for…
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SYDNEY: Envelopes containing ration coupons, which were deposited in the Bank of New South Wales were forgeries," said Det,-Sergeant Gordon Jack in the Redfern Court today when seven men and two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butchers' Five Day Week Claim Rejected by Court
MELBOURNE: The claim for a five-day week for employees in butchers' shops was rejected in Full Court of the Arbitration Court today. The claim came before the Full…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court (Before Mr. E. R. Harvey, S.m.)
INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—Thomas Patrick O'Keefe, 23, timberworker, was fined £1, for having behaved indecently in Scott-street…
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Gladys A. Merrick, 29. who previously had been remanded to Queanbeyan Police Court on a robbery charge, was sentenced to six months'…
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SYDNEY.—For possession of 15 cartons of U.S. cigarettes, Joseph Casemento. 39, Italian shopkeeper, of Darlinghurst, was sent to [?] for…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Breaking down in the witness box in the Criminal Court, Ronald Eastwood, 19, charged with two gun murders,…
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MELBOURNE. — Charged in the City Court today with having yesterday wounded his wife. Jean May Patterson, with intent to murder, Kenneth…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.—Harold Percival Stitt, 32, labourer, of Adelaide, who was found guilty in the Criminal Court of having wounded…
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GAOL OF WOMAN.—Pleading "Guilty" to having been found in Hunter-street with intent to steal, she being a suspected person, Gladys Ada Merrick, 29,…
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Members and intending members of the Police Boys' Bicycle Club are invited to meet officers and instructors at the White Gates, Birmingham…
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SYDNEY: Detectives investigating house robberies in the Lakemba district called at a house at St. Peter's today in…
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