Brothers Fined for Stealing
Two brothers, Eric K. Evans. 26, oyster farmer, and Harry J. Evans, 20. laborer, of Salt Ash. at Newcastle Court today, were each fined £5, or…
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Courts & crime, 1945
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Boy Electrocuted, Man Charged with Manslaughter
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A man was charged with manslaughter after a 7-year-old boy, Ronald Wilkins, of Surry Hills, had been electrocuted…
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Sergeant Yardy, of Belmont police, asks that the man who rode a bicycle on February 24 to inform the postmaster at Blacksmiths that there was…
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SYDNEY: Two revolvers were found under a bath next door to where Donald Day, 41, was shot in Crown Street on January 29, said Detective-Sergeant C. S. Jardine, at the inquest today…
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QUEBEC, Feb. 25. A.A.P.—At least 100 were injured in the predominantly French Canadian town, Drummondville,…
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PERTH, Monday.—A ban from work on wharves or ships was made the penalty of a thieving wharflabourer's freedom…
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BEHAVED VIOLENTLY.—"He resisted and had to be placed in a padded cell," said Sergeant Magnay in the case in which Victor Augustus Naudin, 32,…
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BRISBANE: Charles Dight Barlow, medical practitioner, of Macaky, appeared in the police court today before Mr. H. L Kingston, acting S.M.,…
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SYDNEY.—Injured workers have to wait from six to 12 months to have their compensation rights determined Mr. Landa, M.L.A., paid today…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Allegations by Mr. W. Sheahan that witnesses giving evidence in favour of members of the New South Wales Police…
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PERTH, Monday.—The National Security regulation forbidding interstate travel by rail except under Commonwealth permit has been…
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Eight seamen, from a vessel in port, were charged at the Police Court today with disobeying the lawful commands…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—No application was made for bail when John Napier, 30, truck driver, at Kogarah Police Court, was charged with…
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REMANDED.—William Greenwell Hepple, 40, roll hand, was remanded to March 6, on £20 bail, on charges of having received a fishing reel, valued…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The death of a military gaol-breaker and the arrest of another resulted from a tree-felling accident in south…
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THE request of the management of Rhondda colliery to lodge officers that they sign an agreement to withdraw claims from the Local…
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Eight seamen were charged before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., in Newcastle Summons Court with having wilfully disobeyed the lawful…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—There was a possibility of coalmines in Newcastle district closing down because of a shortage of explosives resulting from insufficient female labour at Deer Park, said Mr. Armstrong in the Legislative Council…
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A 91-years-old resident of Belmont has given £10 to the Newcastle Police Boys' Club. "I appreciate the noble work…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Ronald Eastwood, 20, stevedore, was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment on two charges of manslaughter…
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