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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
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SYDNEY: The cold-blooded killing of Mrs. Jean Wicks, 45, of Macleay-street, Pott's Point, whose battered body was found last night in her tobacco kiosk in York-street, between King and Market Streets, Sydney, is still unsolved…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: When John Henry Starkey (21), laborer, appeared at Kogarah Court today on a charge of attempted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?] for having [?] new [?] on November 20,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Jan. 2. A.A.P.—Five men, alleged to have conspired with John Amery to assist the enemy by joining the "British Free Corps" in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ann Gourley, 58. was remanded again when she appeared in Newcastle Police Court yesterday on a charge of having murdered her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY: The Industrial Commission (Justices Cantor, Kinsella and Ferguson) this afternoon refused the present application of the Federated Ironworkers' Union for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Francis Joseph Callaghan, 25, labourer, was sentenced to three months' hard labour by Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., at West Maitland Court yesterday on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Detectives questioned eight men whose names were found on slips of paper in a York-street cigarette kiosk, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MRS. JEAN WICKS, 45, of Potts Point. Her brother found her body in a tobacco kiosk she conducted in York…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LABUAN, Jan. 3. A.A.P.—An Allied Court sentenced to death four Japanese for the murder of Australian and British prisoners at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THEFT CHARGE WITHDRAWN.âLeslie Fullford, 35, wool worker, was charged with having at Newcastle on December 24, stolen an 18-gallon keg of beer,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY: The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission, tomorrow at 10 a.m., will again hear an application by the Federated Ironworkers' Association for re-registration…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Following a phone call that a woman had been injured at an address in Brunker-road, Broadmeadow, last night, Newcastle District…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Industrial Commission to-day ordered the reinstatement by Australian Iron and Steel Ltd., Port Kembla, of Donald Parker, the valveman whose dismissal on September 22 led…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Group-Captain C. R. Caldwell was arraigned today before a court martial at Bradfield Park on four charges alleging the sale of alcoholic liquor to members of the R.A.A.F. while he was officer commanding No. 80 Fighter Wing Headquarters at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: John Cunningham, a young British sailor, was biting pieces of glass out of his middy in Belfields Hotel yesterday afternoon. Between bites he indulged in bad language. Then Constable Bryan Kellaher in-…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →BEGGED ALMS.—William Hewitson, 50, labourer, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment, for having begged alms in Newcastle on Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Detectives said to-night that an early arrest for the murder of Mrs. Jane Wicks was expected. Mrs. Wicks was battered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →NEW YORK, Friday.—Police at Philadelphia have smashed a ring of hijackers who are alleged to have stolen goods worth more than a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Jan. 4.—The story of how a corporal shot and killed his company commander during the retreat from Dunkirk was told during…
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