Learned to Drink When 10 Man of 66 Sent to Gaol
A mall who said he learned to drink liquor in the gutter when he was 10 and had been taught to read and write in gaol, came before Judge…
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Courts & crime, 1945
1,866 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 94
Court Warns Milk Men on Threat
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The President of the Industrial Commission (Mr. Justice Taylor) warned the Milk and Ice Carters' Union not to…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the Feminist Club luncheon Mr. D. P. McDonald, M.L.A., suggested a Marriage and Divorce Advisory Bureau as an…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—"Yes, I shot him. Those Yanks have been after me for a long time. They tried to poison me some time…
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The hearing of evidence in the part-heard cases of assault between Mrs. Betty Delman and Harry Ellis, a hairdresser, was resumed before…
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ASSAULT CHARGES.—Charged with having on January 25, at West Maitland assaulted his wife, Dorothy Mary Wells, Roy Wells, 33, labourer, was ordered to…
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Pleading guilty to stealing a motor car and motor cycle at Rathmines between October. 1943, and January, 1945, Rupert James White, 27, of the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Commenting on the inquiry as to how "Cliffie" Thomas obtained possession of the pistol with which he wounded…
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R.A.A.F. MAN REMANDED.—Rupert James White, 27, of the R.A.A.F., was remanded until to-day on charges of having, at, Rathmines, on or about…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bus Driver Denies Assault On Girl
Cornelius Wilson, a bus driver. [?]leaded not guilty at Newcastle Quarter Sessions today to having indecently assaulted a 16-year-old girl…
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LONDON. Wednesday — Women prisoners should be given cosmetics. Lord Chief Justice Caldecote told the Prison Gate…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—John Frederick Hays, 31, was committed in the Coroner's Court for trial on a charge of having murdered…
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John Kearney, 31, timbergetter, who had pleaded "Guilty" to 10 charges of having obtained money by false pretences from Constance…
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MELBOURNE. — Reversing the usual procedure an alleged thief locked himself in the office of the Wiltshire File Co. Pty.. Ltd…
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LONDON, Feb. 1. A.A.P.—Reuter's Paris correspondent says four more United States soldiers concerned in train lootings and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
GAMING HOUSE RAID.—"The controller of the game is a returned soldier with a service record of four years. He was induced to take on this job because…
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Judge Nield today, at Newcastle Quarter Sessions, dismissed an appeal of one month's hard labor imposed on an S.P. bettor by a magistrate. "The Gaming and Bettine Act pro…
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LAUNCESTON, Thursday.—Mrs. Ivy May Stokes, 22, mother of three children, the eldest of whom is four, is being tried on a charge of…
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PERTH. Thursday.—Theodore James Wilson, U.S. Navy motor mechanic's mate, was charged with having wilfully killed Albert…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
FINED FOR SPEEDING.—Evidence was given that on December 18 Boyce Keith Piper, of Newcastle-road, Wallsend, drove a car along Maitland-road,…
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