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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 34 of 94

Irish Police to Go to Greece

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 May 1945 · page 3

LONDON, May 15. A.A.P.—The Government of Northern Ireland is arranging for the dispatch to Greece of a number of specially selected…

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World Court May Sit Anywhere

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 May 1945 · page 3

NEW YORK, May 15. A.A.P.—A new World Court is to be established. The substitute that is being drafted at San Francisco, reports the New…

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Gaol Term Increased, Released on Bond

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 May 1945 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—When Lionel Vincent Havers, 33, Newtown, wharflabourer, appealed to the Quarter Sessions Appeals Court…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 May 1945 · page 5

REMANDED.—John Robert Oswald Villiers Cairns, 30, labourer, was remanded until to-morrow on a charge of having broken into the home of…

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Woman Acquitted of Husband's Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 May 1945 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday.—When the foreman of a jury announced a verdict of not guilty in a case in which Lena Kosita…

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Denied Threat to Murder Wife

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 May 1945 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A denial that he once telephoned a person at a house where he believed his wife was staying and said he was going…

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Newcastle Police Transfers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 May 1945 · page 5

Acting Inspector E. E. Hill, of Hamilton, has been notified of his transfer to Wollongong. His place will be taken by Sergeant E. J…

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Government Attacked. "Seeking to Destroy Arbitration Court"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 May 1945 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Federal Government was attempting to smash the Arbitration Court system. Mr. Holt (Lib., Vic.)…

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Look Out, Police!" Call Subject Of Court Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 May 1945 · page 10

Whether the calling: out of "Look out, police!" can be regarded as offensive is a question which Mr. L Beavers, S.M., is…

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Fined for Theft From Shop

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 May 1945 · page 4

Strolling around the counters at Woolworths Ltd. in Hunter Street on the afternoon of May 17, George Williams. 42. laborer, according to…

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Support for Murder Alibi Claimed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 May 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Police investigations had resulted in added support for the story of Reginald Edward Williamson, 26, labourer,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 May 1945 · page 8

RENT INCREASED.—David Carter, of Northumberland-street. Maryville lessor of premises at Ingall-street. Mayfield occupied by Edward George Price, sought…

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Used Six Methods To Murder 500,000 "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 May 1945 · page 3

LONDON, May 17.—Many murder camps even more horrible than Buchenwald have been discovered in Austria, but none worse…

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Court Had No Power To Force Preference On Unionists Says Judge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 May 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY: Neither the Industrial Commission nor any similar commission nor any similar tribunal could force a grant of preference of employment on members of any union not wishing to have such preference, said Mr. Justice Ferguson today…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 May 1945 · page 7

MALE SHOPLIFTER.—George Williams, 42, labourer, was fined £3 for having stolen two napkins and other articles, valued at 5/11½. the property of…

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Life Sentence for Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 May 1945 · page 4

CUNNAMULLA, Friday.—William Charles Noble, 30, cowboy, who was convicted of the murder of Warwick A. Terlier, 11, at Dundoo Station,…

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Newcastle Police Chief For Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 May 1945 · page 3

Superintendent S. McCarthy has been notified of his appointment to Headquarters in Sydney as superintendent in…

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Soldier Not Guilty of Manslaughter Says Court-martial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 May 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Friday.—Trooper Harry Matthews, Australian Armoured Division, was acquitted by a general Court-martial on charges of…

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Charged By Police As Impostor

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 May 1945 · page 4

According to ponce evidence, Stephen Patrick Donnelly, 21, a seaman, has been posing as a ships doctor in the Hamilton district…

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Pulbah Island Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 May 1945 · page 5

Thieves, who entered the caretaker's residence on Pulbah Island, took household furniture, garden tools, wire netting and a shotgun. Pulbah Island is…

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