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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 94

Chinese on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 4

ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Wu Su Ling and Lou Yung Fui were charged at the Criminal Court with the murder of Lee Pao Sun. Lee and the two…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 6

SMOKED IN HALL.—"There had been complaints of danger to the premises and the frocks of dancers," said Sergeant G. G. Noble, when James Cifford…

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Strip-Tease Dancer On Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.—Petite, strip-lease dancer, Marina Jones, 18, tremblingly told the Old Bailey that on the day she was charged with murder she was notified that her husband, a paratrooper, was missing, believed killed at…

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£1740 in Court in Robbery Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.—The sum of £1748, in notes, was produced in court when two soldiers, Edward Ellis Evans, 22. and Oliver Harold…

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art and murder

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 7

"THOSE were happy days, in fact happy weeks when I first managed to have my work…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 4

ASSAULT CHARGES.—The hearing was continued of the case in which Betty Delman, of Brook-street, Bar Beach, charged Harry Ellis, of…

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Police Boys' Camp

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 6

Newcastle, boys to attend the Police Boys' health camp at Kurrajong will meet at Newcastle railway station at 7.45 a.m. to-morrow, and…

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Chinese Acquitted on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 January 1945 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Two Chinese seamen. Lou Yung Fui, 36, and Wo Su Line, were acquitted in the Criminal Court on a charge of…

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Charged with Theft of £6633

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY.—Nancy O'Neill, 36 domestic charged with having stolen £6400 Australian money and 833 dollars American, of a total value of…

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Three Charged With Driving Engine

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 4

MOREE, Monday.—Three men appeared in Moree Police Court charged with having unlawfully driven a railway engine, and with…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 4

FORGERY.—Electing summary Jurisdiction and pleading "Guilty" to an amended charge from the Bench of having, at Waratah, on or about…

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Charged with Having Spirit in Possession

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 3

Evidence was continued at Newcastle Police Court today in the adjourned cases against George D. Garland 29. draughtsman, of being…

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Laborer "Loafed on His Mother," Said Magistrate

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 4

It appeared to him that Philip O. McGee 32 laborer had been loafing on his mother and McGee had no reason to be a burden to her…

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Plea From Gaol by Strip-tease Dancer

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 3

LONDON. Monday: The trial at the Old Bailey of a strip-tease dancer and an American paratrooper, for the murder of a taxi-driver named Heath, is fast approaching a climax…

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Police Seek Witness

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 2

Anybody who travelled on January 20 by the train which left No. 12 platform, Central Station, Sydney, for Newcastle, and who saw a…

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Police Museum for Coalfields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 2

The police museum will close in Newcastle on Friday. It is planned to take the museum to Cessnock, where it will be on, exhibition in…

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Police Keep Eyes Open for Jay. Walkers

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1945 · page 8

The practice of "Jay walking" in city streets was still prevalent, said Newcastle Police Inspector L. R. McLeay to-day…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 6

BOUND OVER.—Phillip Oswald McGee, 32, labourer, was charged with vagrancy at Newcastle on December 28. He was ordered to enter into a…

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For Trial on £1000 Theft Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 10

SYDNEY: Mrs. Norma Isobel Keenan (27), of Jersey Road, Woollahra, was today committed for trial by Mr. Balmain, S.M., at the Central…

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Soldier, Dancer to Die for Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Jan. 23. A.A.P.—The American soldier Karl Gustav Hulten, 22, and the English strip-tease dancer Elizabeth Jones. 28, were…

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