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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 57 of 94

1935 Murders Charged Man, Woman Shot Near Forbes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 August 1945 · page 4

FORBES, Friday.—William Robert Bathgate, 47, farmer, was charged with two murders committee in 1935…

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Police Advice for Newcastle

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 August 1945 · page 3

Superintendent W. Morgan said today that additional police would be on duty in the city and suburbs. Arrangements were well in hand to…

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Police Fire on Salonika Rioters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 August 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Aug. 12. A.A.P.—One person was killed and others were wounded in Salonika in clashes between police and demonstrators who…

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Cessnock Police Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 August 1945 · page 2

(Before Mr. [?]. Beavers, P.M.) Richard George Amos Whiting and Edward James Lodge pleaded guilty to four charges of stealing clothes from a clothes…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1945 · page 5

"PROTITABLE UNDERTAKING."— "The fact is, it is a profitable undertaking and it is reasonable to suppose there is an avoidance of income tax by…

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Police Will Allow Joy, But

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1945 · page 2

NEWCASTLE police will not prevent people from having a joyous time when the Japanese surrender is announced, but…

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Divorce Court in Newcastle

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 August 1945 · page 11

In the part-heard case before the Divorce Court, in which Myra Frances Craft (formerly Bailey) of Stephen Street, Waratah, sought a…

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Court Informed of Chemical Workers' Resumption

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The resumption of work by ironworkers at the Newcastle Chemical Co. Pty. Ltd., who alleged that they had been locked…

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Award Set Aside Agricultural Appeal in District Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 August 1945 · page 5

At the Maitland District Court yesterday. Judge Nield upheld an application by Albert Roland Boyce, of Miller's Forest, that he set aside an award…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 August 1945 · page 5

FINE, BOND FOR WOMAN.—On a charge of having stolen at Hamilton, on May 13, 1943, a woman's bicycle valued at £5, the property of…

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Police Satisfied Man Not Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 August 1945 · page 2

Following an all-day search of an area of water where a car crashed into mud and hyacinth at Wallis Creek on Monday night, police…

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Topics for Women Mrs. M. Tobin's Party For Police Candidate

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 August 1945 · page 8

YESTERDAY afternoon Mrs. M. Tobin presented Superintendent Morgan with a cheque for £500, her contribution towards the police…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 August 1945 · page 10

SENT TO GAOL.—William Calvert, 42, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for vagrancy. The Police Prosecutor (Sergeant W. G. Wallace)…

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Divorced From Man in Gaol Bigamy Issue

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 August 1945 · page 12

A woman whose husband is now serving a sentence on a charge of bigamy was granted a decree nisi by Mr. Justice Bonney at the…

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Police Abandon Search

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 August 1945 · page 4

The search by Maitland police for a man believed to have been drowned when a motor-car overturned into Wallis Creek on Monday night has…

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Belmont Court Sat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 August 1945 · page 5

Mr. J. Beavers, S.M., held the Police Court at Belmont yesterday to dispose of cases in which offenders had attended to plead "Guilty."…

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Final Assault Huge Fleet Was Ready

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 August 1945 · page 4

NEW YORK, August 16. A.A.P. —Admiral Nimitz disclosed that the Allied Fleet off Japan before [?]- armistice consisted of 133…

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Bailing-out Queue at Police Station

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 August 1945 · page 2

There was a queue at Newcastle police station last night when people sought permission to bail out a number who had been locked-up for…

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Wallsend Court Cases Stood Over

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 August 1945 · page 8

The Clerk of Petty Sessions (Mr. Wi P. McCall, J.P.) stood over to September 13 the cases listed for Wallsend Police Court for…

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£2000 Theft Haul Retrieved by Man from Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 August 1945 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Stolen in 1941, £2000 in notes lay buried, first under a house at Sunshine, outer suburb of Melbourne, and later on…

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