Charged With Causing Harm By His Driving
A collision between a car and a lorry at Glebe-road, Merewether, on the night of August 17, last year, led to Arthur West, 53, foreman…
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Courts & crime, 1946
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 129
Let Prisoners Listen Mr. Downing on Bathurst Gaol
SYDNEY, Monday.—On Saturday afternoons 60 to 70 prisoners at Bathurst Gaol listened to a radio programme in a hall nearby, said the…
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SYDNEY. — Police have been instructed to watch for low-flying planes over the city and to note the time, place and type of plane…
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Messrs. C. Davis and Sons Pty. Ltd. has secured the contract for a block of police station buildings at Woy Woy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Peron Rebuffed by Argentine Court
BUENOS AIRES, Monday: The Vice-President, Colonel Peron, received a rebuff from the Supreme Court today, almost on the eve of Argentina's general election. The court ruled as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boy Hanged by Thieves Brutal Murder Shocks Britain "Herald" Service
LONDON, Feb. 4.—Britain is shocked by one of the most fiendish murders ever committed as police throughout the country seek the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fern Growers Blamed Police to Report on Fires
SYDNEY, Monday.—Professional fern growers have been blamed for starting fires that burned out hundreds of acres of bushland in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Craigie's Dashing Five in 1.1 Royal Court Pleases
SYDNEY: Craigie showed remarkable dash for a stayer to lead Warlock over a smartly run five furlongs in 1.1 at Victoria Park this morning. Royal Court could not be faulted over three…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gaol Sentence Is Set Aside
A sentence of three months' imprisonment, imposed on Charles David Mathews. boilermaker, of Wickham. for assaulting police at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
THEFT OF BICYCLE.—Gordon Forbes, 20, boilermaker' apprentice, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for having stolen a bicycle at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Armed Jews Attack Police Station
JERUSALEM, Feb. 5. A.A.P.—Two grenades thrown and gunfire echoed throughout the Safad district this morning when armed Jews…
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JERUSALEM. Tuesday.—After mining the road approaches, armed Jews attacked police headquarters in the Safad district (northern…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Women Mob Police in Nylon Battle
NEW YORK, Tuesday: Latest victim of the wild battles for nylon stockings still raging across the nation is a Chicago patrolman. Melees which scared New York…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Men Sent to Gaol
On three charges of breaking, entering and stealing, Leslie Herbert Sneddon, 25, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment by Judge Nield…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
MOTORIST CHARGED.âWilliam Thomas Hanlon, 43, shop proprietor, was charged with having at Mayfield West, on December 29, 1945, driven a motor…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stadium Assault Denied By Union Officials
Three members of the Newcastle Disputes Committee claimed in the Newcastle District Court today that any action they had taken during a disturbance at a mass meeting of strikers in the Newcastle Stadium on November 23 was justified by their right to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder-Fear Will Upset
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Because he feared someone would murder him, William Henry Box, 76, a Box Hill market gardener,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Theft of Cases of Food for Britain
MELBOURNE.—Reginald Frederick Curtis, fireman of Main Street, Coburg, appeared in City Court today on a charge of having stolen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£400 Damages Claimed Alleged Assault at Strike Meeting
Incidents at Newcastle Stadium on the morning of November 23, when a mass meeting of employees concerned in the strike at the heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charred Heart as Exhibit in Murder Case
BRISBANE, Wednesday—A charred heart was tendered as an exhibit to-day in the Police Court, when a farmer was charged with having…
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