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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 94

New Club for Police Boys Nearer Realisation with Govt. Subsidy

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 July 1945 · page 5

Announcement by the Government that the Police Boys' Club movement is to be subsidised, brings closer the realisation of local plans for new club premises. THE announcement was made by…

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Sent to Gaol for 5 YEARS Received Money After Bank Theft

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

Frederick Charles Weeks, 58, was sentenced at Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday to five years' gaol for having received £652 stolen from a…

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Police Rewards To Informers Mentioned In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 July 1945 · page 5

It was customary for police to reward informers, said Constable W. Allan in a case at Newcastle Court today. The rewards did not come from the Police Department, but were a personal matter on the part of the individual policeman…

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Broke Into Gaol, Took Prisoners

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 July 1945 · page 1

ROME, July 4. A.A.P.—A band of armed and masked men broke into a gaol near Genoa, seized 12 political prisoners and carted them off in…

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

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

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Richard Gordon Campbell, 49, wharflabourer, was lined £2 on a charge of having used indecent language within the hearing…

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Working for Police, Says Witness

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

A witness said under cross-examination in Newcastle Police Court yesterday that he would be paid by the police if the defendant were…

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Discuss Police Club for Girls

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

Establishment of a police and citizens' girls' club in Newcastle may be discussed by the Women's Police Auxiliary on Wednesday…

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[?] Porter Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 July 1945 · page 4

Four charges of stealing and one of receiving were made against Charles William Bainbridge 28. porter of wyong. at Newcastle Police…

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Remanded on Theft Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 July 1945 · page 4

Edwin C. Bagnall, 26, laborer, was remanded to August 6 at Newcastle Police Court today on a charge of stealing a hand-saw, valued at £1,…

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Sentenced to Die in Absence

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

PARIS, July 5. A.A.P.—The High Court of Justice sentenced to death in his absence M. Abel Bonnard, former Vichy Minister of…

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Police Court Summons Division. (Before Mr. J. Byrne, S.m.)

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

PLAYED UNLAWFUL GAME.—Pleading "Guilty" to having played "headin-'em" at Glebe on June 18, Reginald Johns, Corlette-street. Cook's Hill. Allan Brian…

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Brothers Sentenced Five Years For Armed Robbery

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY. — "This was a hold-up at pistol point." said Judge Markell in the Quarter Sessions today, in sentencing…

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Remanded on Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 July 1945 · page 3

Harold Preston. 58, pensioner, appeared at Newcastle Police Court. today charged with the murder of Rebecca Preston on June 24…

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Police Question Sea Adventure

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

LONDON, July 5. A.A.P.—Mr. W. H. Weeks and his 18-year-old son, Geoffrey, who were picked up by H.M.S., Philoctetes off the West…

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"Police Boys' Clubs Singled Out"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 July 1945 · page 4

By singling out police boys' clubs for "most favoured treatment," the State Government failed to recognise the worth and importance of…

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Gaol for Thefts in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—One of two prisoners sentenced at the Quarter Sessions to-day. Thomas Edward Broderick, 22, told police he had…

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

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

REMANDED TO WYONG.—On four charges of theft and a charge of receiving, Charles William Bainbridge, 28, porter, was remanded to Wyong Police…

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Robbed Sailor at Kotara Five Years' Gaol for Waratah Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—Found guilty of an armed hold-up at Kotara on May 7, two brothers, George Raymond Buckley, 39, and Ronald…

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French Police Recover Stolen £300,000

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 July 1945 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—French police, after a hastily-organised search, yesterday recovered £300,000 stolen on Thursday across the counter of the…

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French Police Hunt for Bank Swindlers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1945 · page 3

LONDON, July 6. A.A.P.—French police are hunting for the perpetrators of the £300,000 swindle carried out on the Bank of France. The…

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