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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 129

International Police Fight Against Crime

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—A permanent international police bureau, to ensure swift and concerted action between the world's police forces in…

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English Publicans in Court on Froth

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 10

LONDON.—Following a visit by a teetotal inspector of weights and measures to Luton public-houses, three local licensees and the wife of another were summoned for giving short-measure beer. They were alleged to have served…

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Go to Court on Beer Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—A joint application to the Court by Tooth's and the unions concerned to settle the beer strike is imminent…

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Brewery Dispute May Go To Court

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY.—The Tooth's Brewery dispute may be submitted to the court next week in a joint application by the brewery management and…

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Police Boys and Buffaloes' £5000 for Security Loan

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 3

The United Buffaloes' Appeal Committee in Newcastle has invested £5000 in the £70,000,000 Security Loan. The committee, which has raised…

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Heather Court to Win First Distance Race

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 11

Heather Court, who will start in the Speedway Stake No. 1 at Newcastle Jockey Club's greyhound meeting this afternoon, is selected to win her first distance race. SHE finished brilliantly to win a…

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Cycle Stealing Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 3

When a remand to April 2 was granted at the Newcastle Police Court in the charge against Kenneth A. Beech, 19, laborer, of…

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16 Years' Gaol For Traitor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 6

LONDON, March 24. A.A.P.—Henry Herbert Rose, a naval stoker, was found guilty of a charge of traitorously holding correspondence…

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Gipsy Show women On Stealing Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 2

Two Gipsy show women. Annie Sterio, 40. and Mary A. Sterio, 50, were charged at Newcastle Police Court today with stealing, at Woy…

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Exhibit Missing at Murder Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 3

PARIS, March 24. A.A.P.—A sensation occurred in court yesterday when counsel for Dr. Marcel Petiot, who is accused of murdering 27…

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Dutch Officer Defends Darwin Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 4

DARWIN, Sunday.—Major J. M. L. Horsselet, Judge Advocate for all Dutch troops in Australia, said to-day that he agreed with the verdicts…

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Police Swoop on Bobby Sox Queue: 53 Detained

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, Sunday.—Police, with sirens screaming, made a pre dawn swoop on 53 bobby soxers queued up outside a theatre at 4.30 a. m. yesterday to wait for Frank Sinatra. The girls had planted themselves outside the theatre to be first in…

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Beer Strikers To Discuss Joint Court Approach

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY.—Decision is expected early this week by the Amalgamated Engineering Union on whether a combined application…

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Challenge in High Court Against Share Price Rules

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The validity of the National Security Regulations fixing share ceiling prices is to be challenged in the High Court…

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To Consider Joint Move to Court On Brewery Issue

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The next move in the brewery strike will not occur before Wednesday, when a mass meeting of the strikers will be…

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Gaol Escapees for Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Police were stationed at all exits from the Central Court when Darcy Ezekiel Dugan, 21, and Henry James Mitchell,…

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Manager Charged With Receiving

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mark Barnett. 40, manager of Angus and Coote Pty. Ltd., jewellers, was to-day committed for trial at the Central Court on a…

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Remanded on Two Assault Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 3

Raymond T. Foley, 29, laborer, was remanded to April 3 at Newcastle Police Court on charges of assaulting James Herbert at Stockton,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 7

S.P. BETTING.—John Mitchell Charles Gottery, 42, labourer, Pleaded "Guilty" to living used premises in Bishopgate-street, Wickham, on Saturday, for…

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Wickham Woman Acquitted of Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Before Mr. Justice Street, in the Central Criminal Court, Mrs. Ann Gourley, 58, of Wickham, was acquitted by a jury,…

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