Prefer Advice Centres to Divorce Court
SYDNEY, Friday.—Centres where quarrelling married people could receive advice and, perhaps, effect a reconciliation before recourse to…
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Courts & crime, 1945
1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 94
"Airman Had Amnesia" Mistaken Identity in Court Case
When it was proved to be a case of mistaken identity, the Magistrate at Newcastle Police Court (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd,) discharged…
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SYDNEY: Three sodiers, each serving 23 months for army offences, used iron spikes to break out of Berrima Gaol at the week-end…
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PEAK HILL: Mrs. Christina May Cooper, 58. mother of 13 children, got the full charge of a 12 gauge shotgun in the face and hands…
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JERUSALEM, Aug. 6. A.A.P.— A military court sentenced two Jews who were suspected of being terrorists to terms of imprisonment of…
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ALICE SPRINGS. Tuesday: "William Walter Braitling, pastoralist, was found not guilty in the Criminal Court yesterday of assault,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Months' Gaol for Cargo Thefts
Remarking on the prevalence of cargo pillaging, Mr. Carr Boyd, S.M., sentenced John Keams, 60, ship's fireman, to three months' imprisonment at Newcastle Police Court today. Keams had been charged with…
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THE quiet and stillness of Okinawa, in the Ryukyu group, has ceased to exist. There are amazing scenes of energy and…
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MANILA, Tuesday: Tarumizu, a small town on the southeast coast of Kyushu (Japan,) is a smouldering ruin. More than 400 planes hit it on Sunday with high explosives and jellied gasolene bombs and rockets…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →R.a.a.f. Driver Charged with Manslaughter
SYDNEY: charged with the manslaughter of Ellen Louise Jarvis 87, R.A.A.F. lorry driver Herbert Victor Paterson. 33, was remanded on…
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NEW YORK, Aug 6. A.A.P.—In his letter to the Secretary of State (Mr. Byrnes) on the use of American military forces in action under…
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Andrew Johnston. 40. laborer, was observed bv Constable Stanger stopping pedestrians in Scott Street last night and asking for money…
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DISCHARGED.—When William Thomas Sidebottom, 29, labourer, was charged with having assaulted Arthur Cyril Wilson, and having maliciously damaged a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Cockatoos" Aid S.P. Books Against Police
When Keith Richard Proctor, 37, crane-driver, was fined £20 by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.M., at Newcastle Police Court on a charge of having…
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A sixteen years old youth has told detectives at Newcastle police station that he was the unwitting cause of the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Eric Stanislaus Miller, King's Counsel, was defendant in the District Court in a suit for trespass…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The applicability of the consolidated mining mechanics' award to lorry drivers employed by S. and M. D. Fox and the…
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At the express wish of the Police Commissioner (Mr. W. Mackay), police at all stations in the Newcastle district will make a…
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While John Leonard Winter was garaging his motor car at his home in Maitland Road, Islington, on July 17, William W. May asked him to…
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BRUSSELS, August 8. A.A.P.—It is officially stated that 2117 collaborators have been sentenced to death in Belgium. More, than 16,000 Belgians…
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