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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 129

All-the-way Win By Royal Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 January 1946 · page 12

SYDNEY: Royal Court, winner of the Havilah Handicap at Randwick today, is the fifth two-year-old winner from…

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Charged With Shooting At His Mother

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY: On a charge of shooting at his mother. Cecil John Murphy, 25. laborer, was remanded today in the Central Court on £300…

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Cessnock Court Sequel To Bus Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1946 · page 3

At Cessnock Court today police charged Stanley Monty Robinson, of Cessnock, with having driven a bus load of passengers…

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Magistrate Farewelled

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 5

Mr. I. Beavers. S.M., who has been transferred to Campsie Court was farewelled by the legal profession and police at Teralba Police Court…

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Cairns Bomb Throwing: Man Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 3

CAIRNS. — William Leslie Fitzgerald (28), laborer, appeared in the Police Court this morning before Mr. C. R. Noyes, S.M., on…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 6

SALESMAN FOR TRIAL.—Eric Barker, 43, salesman, was committed for trial at Newcastle Quarter Sessions on April 1, on a charge that, as a servant…

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Vandalism and Theft on H.m.a.s. Cessnock

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 4

Vandalism and theft by juveniles during the week-end marred the otherwise hospitable and sincere welcome given by Newcastle people to the officers and crew of the Corvette, H.M.A.S. Cessnock, now in port on a goodwill visit…

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Crowd Stones Police In Singapore

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 1

SINGAPORE. Wednesday: Police last night clashed with demonstrators who were holding an unauthorised meeting in support of the…

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Police at Prewar Strength Soon

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—More than 250 men had been appointed as police constables in the past few months, of enrolled for training the Premier…

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Pensioner Stabbed with Penknife; Court Allegations

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 3

A pensioner described at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions today how he had been attacked and stabbed three times with a penknife at the Benevolent Home at Western Suburbs Hospital, Waratah, on December 22…

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Assault Charge Remand

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 4

With his head swathed in bandages — minus a coat and shirt and walking with a limp — Wilfred A. Price. 35, laborer, was remanded at…

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Jap General Charged Airmen Executed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 3

MOROTAI, Wednesday.—The highest ranking enemy military officer so far brought before the Morotai Military Court, Major-General Endo, was…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 7

FOR TRIAL.—Jack Penman, 31, labourer, was committed for trial at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions on April 1 on a charge of having, on…

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Reorganise Jap Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK, Jan. 31. A.A.P.—The former New York City Police Commissioner (Mr. Lewis Valentine) announced that General MacArthur…

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Steel Works Bus Scene Leads To Assault Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 3

A scene in a bus taking workmen to the B.H.P. on January 7, during which the passengers called a man "a scab" and made him get off, was described at Newcastle "Summons Court today when the hearing was resumed of the cases in which two B.H.P…

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Murder Charge Woman Is Granted £200 BAIL

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: A woman, committed for trial on a charge of murdering her husband, was granted bail by Mr. Justice…

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Youths Held in Kidnap-murder Case "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 3

CHICAGO, Jan. 30.—Police are holding two Chicago youths, whom the authorities claim, confessed to having tried to collect 20,000 dollars'…

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Soldier on £1935 Theft Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A soldier alleged to have stolen £1935 at the Showground at 7.30 o'clock this morning, appeared at Central Police Court…

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Conviction for Steel Works Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 6

In the first of two cases of alleged assault which were resumed in the Newcastle Summons Court yesterday, Mr. J. Byrnes,…

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Man Bound Over in Assault Case

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 February 1946 · page 4

Francis Sylvester Ward, of David Street, Waratah, convicted late yesterday afternoon at Newcastle Summons Court of having assaulted…

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