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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 65 of 94

Suspended President May Go to Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 September 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The suspended Balmain branch President of the Federated Ironworkers' Association (Mr. J. Leehy) will be given…

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Judgment Angers Enginedrivers No More Claims for Federal Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 September 1945 · page 5

Newcastle branch of the Federated Engmedrivers and Firemen's Association last night endorsed a decision of Sydney branch that no…

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Stealing Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 September 1945 · page 4

Ronald Shoesmith, 24. motor driver, and Michael T. Ryan, 22, laborer, charged at Newcastle Police Court with stealing six rolls of dress…

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Fascists Sentenced

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 September 1945 · page 1

ROME, Friday.—An Allied military court at Vicenza (north Italy) has sentenced to death three of seven Italian partisans who broke into a…

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Gaol Sentence for Manslaughter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 September 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Francis Alexander Walls, 46, an army cook, was sentenced in the Central Criminal Court to four years' imprisonment…

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Stole Stockings, Got 14 Days' Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 September 1945 · page 10

SYDNEV, Thursday.—With four pages of convictions for dishonesty against him, dating back 51 years, James Smith, 82, was sentenced at…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 September 1945 · page 10

GLASS IN POSSESSION.—A fine of £1 was imposed on Donald Ross, 46, labourer, for having in his possession a middy glass reasonably suspected of…

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Price of Cordials Tested in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 September 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The validity of the soft drink prices order made under National Security Regulations was challenged before Mr…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 September 1945 · page 5

REMANDED.—Ronald Shoesmith, 24, motor driver, and Michael Thomas Ryan, 22, labourer, were remanded to Thursday, on £40 bail, on a charge of having…

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Governments to be Summoned to Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 September 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Leave for counsel for a number of fish agents to serve notice on the Commonwealth and State Governments to appear…

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Charged with Assault on His Wife

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 September 1945 · page 2

A man alleged in West Maitland Police Court today that his wife told him she carried a razor in her handbag and was going to cut his throat…

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Brilliant Scientist Sentenced to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 September 1945 · page 1

VIENNA, Sept. 16. A.A.P.—The Austrian People's Court sentenced to death Dr. Jorn Lange, one of the world's most brilliant professors of…

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Cold-blooded Murder of 21 NURSES Were Shot, Bayoneted

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 September 1945 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Monday: The story of one of the most horrible massacres of the war has been brought out of Sumatra by the 24 Australian nurses who survived it…

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"County Council Will Not Flout Court"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 September 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The County Council would not be a party to any settlement terms not in accordance with the Industrial Commission's…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1945 · page 6

WOMAN ASSAULTED.—On a charge of having assaulted Mary Jean Mood, at Newcastle, on Friday, Warren Charles Patrick Bird, 24, moulder, was ordered…

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Double Charge Of Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 September 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY.—With his face heavily bandaged showing only his eyes and mouth, Arthur Joseph O'Keefe, 22, wharf…

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Kramer Pale in Court Belsen Trials Begin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1945 · page 1

LONDON, Sept. 17. A.A.P.—Josef Kramer former commandant of the Besen concentration camp, looked pale and grim as ne…

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"Stars" in Stadium Fight Were Fined in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1945 · page 6

A fight at Newcastle Stadium on Saturday night, which brought the crowd to its feet, but was not included on the programme, resulted…

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Three Women Charged with Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 September 1945 · page 5

MELBOURNE.—The story of the discovery by a milkman of the "body of a Waaf corporal in Burgess Street, Auburn, on the morning of July 15…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 September 1945 · page 6

INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—John Neal, 32, labourer, was fined £2/10/ for having behaved indecently in Union-street LICENSING COURT…

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