A.C.T.U. To Ask Court For 40-Hour Week For All
MELBOURNE, Friday.—The interstate conference of the A.C.T.U. decided to-night to seek through the Arbitration Court for…
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Courts & crime, 1946
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 129
Youth On Stealing Charge
At Newcastle Police Court today, Sidney J. Stanshall, 19, laborer, was charged with having stolen a suitcase containing men's clothing, a…
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LONDON, Feb. 24, A.A.P.—Vienna is experiencing an unprecedented crime wave, with a murder a day, says the Vienna correspondent of…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Charged with the murder of a woman alleged to have died following an illegal operation. Dorothy Irene Gordon. 39, was…
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Stephen Doyle. 28. showman, was charged at Newcastle Police Court today with having played an unlawful game known as "[?]in billiards"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nimitz Court-martialled Tells Story at McVay Trial
WASHINGTON, February 24. A.A.P.—When Captain MeVay, former commander of the Indianopolis, was found guilty by a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
CASES FROM SHOW.—A number of Cases in Which there were remands arose from police activity at Newcastle Showground…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Asked For Gaol — And Got It
When Constable Weston picked up John McKenzie, 59, from a drain in King Street, last evening, with a bottle of methylated spirits in his…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A Queensland stipendiary magistrate was found not guilty to-day in the criminal Court of a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dog Bites Police Sergeant's Face
Police Sergeant G. A. Boyd, of Adamstown, was bitten on the face by a dog in the John Darling Colliery district yesterday…
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A welcome was extended to Mr. P. Withycombe, at Newcastle police Court today. Mr. C. G. Car-Boyd, S.M., said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rode Horse in Hotel Bar Court Sequel at Maitland
The story of a man who rode a horse through the bar of a hotel drank a beer while on horseback and then threw the glass away, was…
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Found lying in a drain in King-street, with a bottle containing methylated spirits alongside him, John McKenzie, 59, no occupation,…
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TOOK JEEP.—About 12.20 a.m. yesterday, Joseph Preston, 21 Royal Marine, took a jeep from near the Salvation Army hostel, drove it to Port…
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NEWCASTLE police last night informed the licensee of the Centennial Hotel (Mr. Stan Brain that they had recovered…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—The New South Wales police force is to have an additional band—of bagpipes. Twenty-six policemen will in future appear…
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MELBOURNE Tues.—"While my husband was threatening me I heard a loud report. He tell down and Gloria said. 'My God…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Fire on Mobs in Madras British Troops Now Leaving Bombay
LONDON, Feb. 26. A.A.P.—Disturbances broken out again in Madras to-day. Police opened fire on crowds throwing stones. Mobs stoned passing trains and…
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Police visited a party at a house at Wallsend on January 18 following a report that a revolver shot had been fired…
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Charged at Newcastle Police Court today with stealing a Chevrolet motor car valued at £400, the property of Dudley Jeffrey, of Sydney, and…
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