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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 94

Gaol for Assault With Bodily Harm

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 6

John William Edwards, 46, was sentenced at Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday to two years' imprisonment for assault occasioning…

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Clerk Freed Burglary Charge Acquittal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 4

John Frederick Dean, 49, clerk, was found not guilty at Newcastle Quarter Sessions of having broken and, entered the shop of Frederick…

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Bigamist to be Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 6

Neville Eugene Falvey, 22, soldier, was remanded until to-day for sentence when he pleaded "Guilty" in the Newcastle Quarter Sessions…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 6

CONSORTING CASE.—A sentence of four months' goal was imposed on Robert Noel Poulton, is, labourer, on a charge of having between December…

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Youth on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Following the death to-day of John Cane, 40, Greek cafe proprietor of Orange. Denis James Lyons, 17, has been charged…

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Put on Bond for Assault Produced Firearm in Office

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 4

Albert William Butcher, 56, was placed on a three-year good behaviour bond in Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday for having assaulted Mrs…

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Police Defer Decision Link With Trades Hall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Supporting a motion at the N.S.W. Police Association conference that the Association should not affiliate with the Trades…

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Gaol for Two Men Assault, Intent to Rob

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 6

Two years' imprisonment with hard labour was imposed by Judge Nield in the Quarter Sessions yesterday on two young men found guilty of…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 5

AGED MAN CHARGED.—"I want to see what is in my tin," said Patrick Murick, 70, labourer, when charged with having stolen at Newcastle, on…

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Police Seeking Arbitration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The annual conference of the Police Association of New South Wiles decided to continue efforts to secure police access…

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Boy, 13, Faces Two Murder Counts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Wednesday.—Noel Ingram Brooks, 13, was committed for trial, after a Lower Court hearing at Greytown to-day, on charges…

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Police to Purchase Aeroplane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Faster transport will be provided for the New South Wales Police, particularly detectives in country areas, said…

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18 Months' Gaol for Woman Ten Charges of Shoplifting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 6

A 39-year-old married woman, with a family of seven children, was sentenced by Judge Nield in the Quarter Sessions yesterday to…

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Doctor and Patient Go to Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: A woman today at the Central Courts accused Dr. Norman Haire of assault and the doctor charged her…

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March on May Day "Police Approve," Council Ponders

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 3

The Commissioner of Police had approved an application by the May Day Committee for a procession on Sunday, April 29, from Pacific-street…

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Acquitted of Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 7

Facing two charges of assault occasioning bodily harm, and of assault, a ship's fireman was found not guilty by a jury at the Quarter…

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Man Collapses When Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Nelson Buchanan Grindal, 40, a former Sydney hotelkeeper, collapsed in the dock at Central Criminal Court when…

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Doctor on Assault Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A woman accused Dr. Norman Haire of assault at the Central Court to-day. The doctor charged her with having…

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Seaman for Sentence Assault, Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 6

A jury at the Quarter Sessions yesterday found a seaman guilty of assault and robbery and at assault occasioning bodily harm, but made…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 7

AGED MAN GAOLED.—Peter Murick 70, labourer, on remand from the previous day denied that he had stolen a pot plant worth 1/9, the property of…

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