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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 49 of 94

Dr. Cuthbert on Holiday After Leaving Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Dr. Harold William Cuthbert, who yesterday was released from the debtors' section of Long Bay Gaol, has gone…

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London Poles Charged Tried to Scuttle Fleet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 1

LONDON, July 10. A.A.P.— The Polish Prime Minister (M. Osobka-Morawski) told a Press conference of Allied correspondents that the…

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N.Z. Search for Boarder Missing from Home After Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 4

AUCKLAND, Tuesday.— A general police alarm his been broadcast throughout New Zealand With a description of a man wanted for in…

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Belmont Court (Before Mr. I. Beavers, S.M.) S.P. Betting Fine

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 July 1945 · page 4

A fine of £15 was imposed on Jack Wilson Heaney. 30. who pleaded guilty to a charge of s.p. betting at the B.C.U. Club at Swansea on June 16. Betting…

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Cargo Theft, Arrest Expected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A quantity of beer, whisky, cigarettes and tobacco stolen from the store room of a ship in Sydney harbour early to-day…

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Remanded on £100 Bail: Stealing Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 5

Kenneth Krahe, 23, metal polisher, was remanded to Parramatta Police Court on bail of £100 by Mr. C. G. Carr Boyd, S.M, at Newcastle Police…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 5

BUS CONDUCTRESS FINED.—Rita Muriel Tigges, 25, bus conductress, pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of having, at Hamilton on April 19,…

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Remand on Murder Intent Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday. — Cecil Bobbs, 38, metal worker, charged at Brisbane Court with wounding Joseph Fanesi at Fitzroy, Victoria, on July…

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Man Arrested on N.Z. Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Wednesday.—Police have arrested Stanley Winwood McKissick Reid, aged 50, on a charge of murdering Mrs. Lila Hammond at…

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Court Accepts Story of Souvenirs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Harris, S.M., in Redfern Court, accepted a statement by Raymond Edward Harris, 18, of Mascot that a…

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Equity Court Test on Sinclair Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 July 1945 · page 3

STDNEY, Wednesday.—If the Equity Court grants an application for a declaration by the Judge in Lunacy that Boyd Sinclair is sane,…

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Fined For Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 7

At Newcastle Police Court today Dimitrios Litzkikis. also known as James Litza. 45, restaurant keeper, was charged with having in his…

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Five Men Get Three Years for Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Three airmen and two civilians were sent to gaol for three years today for complicity in the theft of shirting material valued at…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 7

DISCHARGED.—When Lester' Donald Eckhardt, 31, seaman, was charged with having assaulted Santigo Manglayan, occasioning him bodily harm, at…

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Greyhound Killed Cat: Owner Gets Three Months' Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 7

SYDNEY: For sooling his greyhound don on to a cat which was killed, Edward William Houlton, bootmaker, of Dick' Street…

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Gaol and Fine of £24,000 "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 3

LONDON, July 12.—A fine of £24,000, and two years' imprisonment, was imposed on a 31-year-old Army deserter, Isaac Jack Levinson,…

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Husband for Trial Wyong Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 6

Finding that Mrs. Rebecca Preston, 61, died at Newcastle Hospital from wounds feloniously and maliciously inflicted by her husband, Harold…

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Table Rappings, Seances Mentioned In Assault Charge At Mayfield

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 July 1945 · page 3

References to spiritual meetings, seances and table rapping were mentioned at Newcastle Police Court today in a series of charges of assaults and insulting words between Mayfield residents on March 12…

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Caused Cat's Death, Sentenced to Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Edward William Houlton, bootmaker, of Dick-street, Chippendale, was sentenced to gaol for three months with hard…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1945 · page 8

THEFT FROM ABATTOIR.—William Jenkins, 40, electrical mechanic, was fined £3 for having stolen 1¼lb of pork fillet, valued at 1/8, the property…

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