Found Drinking Keg of Beer Five Railwaymen Charged
Railwaymen allegedly found by a detective at Broadmeadow marshalling yards on the night of Sunday, December 10, with a nine-gallon keg…
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Courts & crime, 1945
1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 94
Cairo Minister to Obey Police
LONDON, January 4. A.A.P.—Sir Edward Grigg, Minister Resident in the Middle East, at his first Press conferencing after succeeding Lord…
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SYDNEY.—A returned R.A.A.F. man was charged at North Sydney with stealing £180 from his mother-in-law, who said the…
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SUSPECTED GOODS.—By consent, Leonard Charles Ward, 35, shunter, was remanded until January 15, with bail of £10 continued, on a charge that…
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CAIRNS, Friday.—An Army captain told a general court-martial that his wife, whom he intended to divorce, wished him "every…
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Charged at Newcastle Police Court today with assaulting John Cartwright, Fred Blakey. 36. miner, was remanded until February 10…
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Police Boys, playing their first A grade game in C and S cricket on Saturday, beat Cardiff by 49 runs on the first innings. In the batting, W. Presland (New…
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LONDON, Monday.—A Dutch Court has sentenced to death three Dutchmen who had been agents of the German espionage service. Two…
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REMANDED.—On the application of Mr. H. L. O'Neill, an adjournment until January 22 was granted when George Daniel Garland, 29, draughtsman, was…
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SYDNEY: Accused of attempting to murder Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones, four men sat in the dock at Central Police Court today. Dr. Jones, who had been in hospital for some…
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SYDNEY.—An elderly man was found today brutally battered about the head, lying in a pool of blood in the rear of a King…
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PARIS, Tuesday: Prison sentences of from 45 to 50 years have been imposed on four American soldiers for the theft and sale of cigarettes and other U.S. Government property…
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VAGRANCY CHARGE.—"I have never known him to do any work," said Constable Pickett, who had arrested Phillip Oswald McGee, 32, labourer, and…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—There was no apparent motive for the brutal murder of Maurice Joseph Hannigan 68. of Bellevue-avenue, West…
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SYDNEY.—The person who murdered Maurice Joseph Hannigan (68), of Bellevue Avenue, Ryde, who was found brutally…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.âTwo railway porters were gaoled for having stolen confectionery and other goods from the railways…
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SOLDIER FINED.—Stanley Frederick Martin, 21, soldier, was charged with having sold a bottle of wine and a bottle of gin at Newcastle on Tuesday, he…
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Sir.—Newcastle is undoubtedly proud of the success it has made in the establishment of the Police Boys' Club. It his tackled one of…
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Portion of a pistol stock and a dagger found in the remains of the fire at Glenrowan, where Ned Kelly made his last stand, are included in…
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From relics of bushranging days to examples of the most up-to-date methods of solving crimes, the exhibits in the Police Museum illustrate almost every phase of the ruthlessness and ingenuity of the criminal, and the courage and skill…
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