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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 94

Police Search for Nazi "Scar Face"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1945 · page 3

LONDON, April 2. A.A.P.—The French police are searching for "Sear Face" Skorzeny, the Nazi organiser of the kidnapping of…

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Woman Charged With Theft of £6653

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Nancy O'Neill, 30, was charged at Central Court with having between November 25 and December 11, 1944, stolen £6400…

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Assault Victim May Die

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—It was stated at Parramatta Court that James Keriotis, an American soldier, may die as a result of injuries inflicted by…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 6

INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—Leonard Denver Quintrell, 45, labourer, was fined £3 for having behaved indecently in Hanbury-street, Mayfield. A similai…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 6

REMANDED.—Robert Gordon Harvey, 32, wharf labourer, was remanded to April 27, on £40 bail, on a charge of having stolen from the person of…

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£10 MENTIONED Manpower Officer Is Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: An allegation that £10 was paid to Edmund Thomas Dowse, Manpower officer at Mascot, in connection…

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Bible in List at Police Sale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 2

Bicycles, clothing motor car wheels and a Bible will be among articles to be offered at auction at the annual police sale on April 28…

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Flaes Wreck Marriage, Court Told

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: Two fleas wrecked a marriage that had endured 20 years, according to a deserted husband's evidence in…

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Members of Greek Crew in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 6

When a plea of not guilty was Riven by eight Greek seamen, charged with wilfully disobeying a lawful command of the master of a…

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Overtime Ban at Abattoir Approach to Court by Manager

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 April 1945 · page 2

Greater Newcastle Council's solicitors have been instructed to advise the Industrial Arbitration Commission of the refusal of the Meat…

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Police Court (Before Mr. I. Beavers, P.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 5

TRAFFIC OFFENCES.—For having driven a motor-lorry on Maitland-road East Maitland, without two serviceable brakes, Jack Joseph Doherty, of…

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Council Charged With Bias

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 6

The debate on the unsuccessful motion placed before Greater Newcastle Council to rescind the ban on use of the Sports Ground…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 7

FINED FOR THEFT.—Pleading "Guilty" to having stolen three loads of ashes, valued at £3, the property of W. Bramble and Sons Pty. Ltd., at…

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Assault And Robbery Charge Against Two

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 4

During the night of March 7, John McMillan, aged 60, caretaker of Towns's boatshed at North Stockton, was assaulted and robbed of £7, and at Newcastle Police Court today John William hurley, 21, cleaner, and Clarence Edward Peters, 30, seaman,…

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Hunt Follows Boy's Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.—Station owners and hands are searching the stony ridges between Eulo and Dundoo Station for a man from Dundoo,…

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To Debate Plan for Bargaining Arbitration Court Abolition Sought

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 April 1945 · page 2

Newcastle Trades Hall Council at its next meeting will discuss its attitude towards the suggestion for the abolition of Arbitration Courts…

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Man Fined £15 for Stealing Petrol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 4

Pleading "Guilty" to having stolen four gallons of petrol, valued at 11/4, the property of Alexander D'Argeaval, at Hamilton on Thursday night. Athol…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 8

GREEK SEAMEN'S CASES.—When the adjourned cases in which eight Greek seamen were charged with having wilfully disobeyed the lawful command of the…

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Arrest After Murder of Boy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 4

BRISBANE, Friday.—A man wanted in connection with the death of Warwick Terlien, 11, of Dundoo Station, was detained by police after…

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Solicitors Figure in Court Brush

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1945 · page 4

There was a sharp exchange between Mr. Helmore and Mr. Wheeler at the Coroner's Court in Newcastle yesterday…

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