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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 129

Wants Bail in Murder Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The hearing of an appeal by Henry Vincent Wyndham, 31, was adjourned by Jude Steer in the Appeal Court, to…

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Final Effort to Crush Riot In Milan Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, April 24. A.A.P.—Troops and police launched a new attack last night in a final effort to crush, the revolt by 2500 prisoners…

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Police Boys in Hockey Test

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 10

Highlight of the second round of the men's A grade hockey competition on Saturday will be the match between South Blues and Police Boys'…

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S.M. Says Not Fit And Proper to Gaol for Betting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 5

"Although the Legislature decrees that it be done, I do not think it a fit and proper thing to send a man to gaol for this offence," Mr. H. L…

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Police Stop Crooks' Two-up Games

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY.—In Hyde Park today, detectives stopped impromptu two-up games. The police explained that the…

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Charged With Theft of £458

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.—In the Central Court, the police prosecutor said that part of a large sum of money alleged to have been stolen by a…

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Strikers Charged by Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 4

COLOMBO, April 25. A.A.P.—Police made a baton charge when dock strikers in a procession, after being warned to disperse, squatted down on…

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Remands at Newcastle Police Court

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 3

Alan J. Anderson, 28, tram conductor, was remanded to May 10, at Newcastle Police Court, on a charge of driving a motor car under the…

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Police Censorship

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 2

There will never be an Australian literature as long as it is competent for a police officer who has not heard of Byron or…

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Rebel Prisoners Surrender In Milan Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 3

MILAN, April 25. A.A.P.—After a four day gun battle with police and soldiers, the 2500 prisoners in San Vittore gaol surrendered to-day…

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Kiosk Murder Trial on

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY: Trial of Douglas Arthur Morris, 26, charged with the kiosk murder, will open at Sydney Quarter Sessions on…

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Knuckle Duster Mentioned In Murder Case

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY: Charged with the murder of Robert Bell, 64, at Redfern on April 22, Henry Roy Bowden, 38, laborer, was…

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Shops Stormed: Police Called

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: In a desperate bid to obtain week-end meat supplies before limited stocks ran out, housewives stormed butchers'…

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Armed Jews Attack Police Station

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 6

JERUSALEM, Thursday.—Loud explosions were heard when 40 armed Jews attacked a police station between Tel Aviv and Jaffa…

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"Adjournment Feared; Police Could Make Case"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thursday.—Max Nordau Julius, 30, barrister, pleaded "Not guilty" in the Police Court to charges of having used insulting language to…

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Police Beat Crooks at Two-up

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Police acted promptly when two-up games commenced in city streets to-day as the Anzac…

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Fine Over Glassop's Book Police Action After Federal Reference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—There was no State censorship on books, the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) said to-night. "The only test is whether a publication is obscene within the…

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Man Charged With Pensioner's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 11

SYDNEY, Friday.—At Redfern Court to-day. Henry Roy Bowden, 38, labourer, was remanded until May 31 on a charge of the murder of…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 6

REMANDED.—Alan Jack Anderson, 28 tram conductor, was remanded to May 10 on a charge of having driven a car in Tudor-street Hamilton, while…

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SHOT 200 NATIVES 2 Japs Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 4

RABAUL, Friday.-Two Japanese naval officers were charged with having slaughtered 200 natives at Ocean Island after the Pacific War had…

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