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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 94

Police Boys Holiday

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 4

Members of the Newcastle Police and Citizens Boys' Club in camp at Kuringhi will not return to Newcastle until 6.50 p.m. tomorrow…

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Extra Day for Police Museum

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 6

The police museum exhibition, next to the Tatler Theatrette, which was to have ended last night, has been extended until to-night. The…

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Police Raid Barrows in Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 4

Police and barrowmen got into holts in Liverpool Street, Sydney, yesterday when a raid was made on unlicensed barrows. Some barrowmen fled, driving their ponies at full speed into Pitt Street. Police were pelted with fruit…

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Police Visit Bank, Shop Home in Alleged Forged Ration Coupon Clean-up

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 27 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY.—Detectives yesterday seized a number of allegedly forged clothing ration cards and coupons at a frock shop and a bank in the city and at a North Shore home…

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Perth Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 3

Mrs. Veronica Margaret Plant, 26, was remanded at Perth Police Court on a charge of having murdered John…

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Mother of Three Faces Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 5

PERTH, Sunday.—In Perth Police Court yesterday, Veronica Margaretta Plant, 26, mother of three children, was remanded for eight days…

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Police Stopped Horses Going to Gloucester

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 6

POLICE stopped Newcastle horses being transported by road to Gloucester races on Saturday. They were criticised for inconsistency…

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Police Seize Allegedly Forged Ration Cards

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A number of allegedly forged clothing ration cards and coupons were seized by detectives at a frock shop and at a bank…

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Officer Sent to Gaol for Cigarette Racket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

LONDON, Jan. 29. A.A.P.—An American court-martial in Paris has sentenced Lieutenant Marvin Davis to 15 years' gaol for cigarette…

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Three Women, Man Arrested Early-morn Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—Irene Merle Day, 29, Daphne Irene Kinney, 22, and Keith Hull, were charged this afternoon with the murder of…

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Found Shot in Gaol Cell Cliffie Thomas in Critical Condition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Late to-night Prince Henry Hospital reported no change in the critical condition of Clifford Tasman Thompson who was…

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Three Women and Man on Charge of Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY:Three women and a man were charged at Central Police Court to-day with having murdered Donald Day ("Donald the Duck"), whose bullet-riddled body was found in a house at Surry Hills yesterday morning…

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Newcastle Youth Remanded "Master Mind" at Work in Hold-up, Says Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

KEMPSEY, Monday.—"It seems to me that this was the work of a master mind," said Mr. W. Finlay, S.M., at Kempsey Children's Court,…

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Tried To Shake Duke's Hand: Man In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY: The man who tried to shake hands in Martin Place yesterday with the Duke of Gloucester, appeared at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of drunkenness. He was admonished and…

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Lodger Charged With Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY: A young wife described to the City Coroner today how, on returning from a New Years' party, she found…

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Gaol Instead of Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Victorian Cabinet commuted the death sentence on Ronald Curwood, 19, who was convicted recently of…

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Gaol Inquiry on Cell Gun

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An inquiry to determine how Clifford Tasman Thompson (known as Cliffie Thomas), 32, obtained possession of the…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 6

ASSAULT CHARGE.—Michael Joseph Kearney, 38, labourer, was remanded until Tuesday on a charge of having unlawfully assaulted Thomas Charles…

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Murder Charge Against Four Underworld Killing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Bail was refused by Mr. Goldic, S.M., at the Central Police Court when he remanded Irene Merle Day, 39, Daphne…

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Police Watch Stolen Goods

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 31 January 1945 · page 8

An all-day watch they had kept on two parcels of stolen clothes hoping' that the thief would return to retrieve them, was…

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