Cessnock Police Court
In a report of a case at Cessnock Police Court involving two brothers. Jonathan and Joseph Fletcher, it was stated that Jonathan Fletcher was…
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Courts & crime, 1946
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 33 of 129
House Problem for Magistrate
When is a week-ender not a week-ender? This was a problem which Mr. H. L. Sargeson, S.M., had to solve at…
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John Thomas Lawson was remanded until Monday in West Maitland Court today. Lawson was charged with having stolen a sports coat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
GAOLED FOR THEFT.—Isaac William John Bracken, 40, labourer, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for stealing a bicycle. Evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Judge Flays Man Charged With Obscenity
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—"It is in the highest degree anomalous that, in a community which shuts away lepers and typhoid carriers and other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →21 Months' Gaol for A.W.C. Official
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Found guilty on 11 charges of having trafficked in Allied Works Council refrigerators, John Clyde Jones, 45,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Deaf-mute in Court
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the City Coroner's Court to-day, a married woman was allowed to sit beside her brother, a deaf-mute, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bunnerong Case in Court
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Declaring himself satisfied with assurances given to him by the parties in the Bunnerong dispute, Judge O'Mara to-day…
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A full set of kitchen ware, box of several dozen packets of chewing gum, bicycles, a Chinese flag and ship's compass are among articles to…
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LONDON, April 10. A.AP.—Wanted in connection with 37 cases of murder and 14 of rape, a 23-yeare-old Polish displaced person, who is a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Held Up, Robbed Near Police Station
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Within 100 yards of Police Station this afternoon. William Symes, wharf labourer, of Glebe-road. Glebe, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Search Rough Bush for Vicious Bandit
SYDNEY:: More than 100 police are searching the rough countryside around Waterfall for the robber who, within half…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Found guilty by a Naval court-martial on seven charges relating to irregularities in the administration of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hysterical Woman Bound and Gagged in Court "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, April 10.—A 49-year-old woman, being tried on a charge of murder, at throughout the Court sessions in a strait jacket,…
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MILAN, April 11. A.A.P.—[?] tribunal sentenced to death Colonel Paolo Turco, former commandant of a war prisoner camp…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A 17-year-old youth was to-day sentenced to death, but the issue will be the subject of a report to the…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Federal Government was criticised to-day by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Harrison) for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Murder Case Dropped
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Crown has decided not to prosecute in the case in which Frederick George Poland, 32, of Garden City, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court Newcastle Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m
FOR TRAIL.—"I don't look like going on the Japan trip now," Neville Clifford Lawson, 19, a soldier, said this, according to Detective H N. White,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →High Jinks in Washington Gaol "Herald" Service
WASHINGTON, April 10.—Congressmen to-day listened with astonishment to a description of how prisoners at the Washington gaol, only…
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