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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Charged With Stealing Kegs Of Beer

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 2

Allegations of stealing and receiving three nine-gallon kegs of beer were made against two brothers at Newcastle Police Court…

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Gaol Residents Get Notice To Quit

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Monday.—A number of residents of Pentonville Prison have been given notice to vacate. They are homeless civilians who…

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King's Medal for Police Officers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—Award of the King's Police and Fire Services' Medal to seven members of the New South Wales Police Force, in…

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Special Police Training In U.S.

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 4

NEW YORK.—In cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and chiefs of police, Fairleigh Dickson Junior College, N.J., has set up…

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Police Handle 4482 Charges in Year

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 2

Newcastle police handled 4482 charges in 1915. They ranged from murder and manslaughter, down to drunkenness, and included juvenile…

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Police Want Owner for Suit Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 2

Newcastle police are seeking the owner of a suitcase which was found in an air-raid shelter in Newcastle West. It contains clothing and…

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Police Called Out Swansea Bakery Stormed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 2

More than 6000 loaves of bread were baked and sold by Mr. H. J. Hardy, Swansea baker, yesterday. Police were called to control…

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British Police Force Weak "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Dec. 31.—Despite the biggest crime wave on record, Britain's police forces will be reduced from to-morrow to their…

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Caldwell Court-Martial On

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY.—Court-martial of Group Captain Clive Caldwell will commence at No. 2 Personnel Depot, Bradfield Park, on Friday…

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Vital Peace Talks in London This Month U.N.O. Meeting; Bid For World Police Force "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 January 1946 · page 1

LONDON, December 31.—Discussions vital to the future peace of the world will take place in London in January. The General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation…

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Gaol for "Active Gunman"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—For illegally carrying a revolver, Thomas Stones, 31, was sentenced to 12 months' gaol at Central Court to-day. He was…

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Brothers Fined for Stealing Girder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 4

Two brothers, Thomas and John McWilliam, both miners of Fennell's Bay, who pleaded guilty, were each fined £3 at Teralba Court today…

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Woman Remanded On Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 3

Charged at Newcastle Police Court today with the murder of her husband, Henry McCluskey Gourley, at Wickham on…

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Six Months' Gaol for Robbing Church Poor Box

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY: Charged with stealing £2 from the collection box at St. Andrew's Cathedral on December 26. Tasman Davis, 21, laborer, was…

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Crime Paid, But Not Murder "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 1.—Scotland Yard's balance for last year shows a profit far criminals, but after the heaviest crime-wave since 1938,…

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Police Followed Bloodstains; Made Two Arrests

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Following a trail of bloodstains to a house in Woolloomooloo this afternoon, detectives investigating the shooting of…

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Caldwell Court-martial Opens on

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. J. E. Cassidy, K.C., and Mr. J. W. Bavin, formerly R.A.A.F. legal officer at Eastern Area Headquarters, will…

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Court Decisions May Speed Steel Strike End

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Impending decisions, of the State Industrial Commission may help to end the Port Kembla and Newcastle steel strike…

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Gaol for Theft from Poor Box

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Tasman Davis (21), labourer, was sentenced by Mr. Hardwick, S.M., at the Central Court to six months' gaol on a…

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Charged With Intent to Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Cecil John Alien, 28, labourer, was charged at Central Police Court with shooting with intent to murder…

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