Police to Intercept Missing Ketch
PERTH, Sunday.—A ketch valued at £2000 and provisions for 16 days, missing since Friday night from Fremantle, was located in an air search…
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Courts & crime, 1946
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 42 of 129
Morris Enters Box to Deny Murder
SYDNEY, Monday.—Douglas Ronald Morris, 26, journalist, entered the witness box at Central Criminal Court to-day. He denied that he had killed Mrs. Jeanette Wicks. Morris has concluded his…
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BATAVIA, Tuesday. — Indonesian police have arrested two Japanese and three Indonesians alleged to have murdered three Australian War…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Raided Two-up School
A crowd of men were surprised by the police engaged in playing a same of "heading 'em" on a vacant allotment of land off Railway Street,…
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The Police Boys' Club team won the Newcastle Men's Hockey Association five-aside championship yesterday. The team was undefeated…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Called In Jeers, Cheers, Fights at Protest Meeting
SYDNEY, Monday.—Pandemonium broke loose at a citizens' protest meeting at the Town Hall to-day, when between 15 and 20 men and women, struggling wildly and shouting, were ejected by the police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Maitland Court (Before Mr. S. L. McNamara, J.P.)
On a charge of having taken and used a motor cycle without the consent of the owner, Ronald Williamson. 21, soldier, was remanded to Monday on £10 ball…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Right to Try Japs Challenged Allied Court Upholds Sir William Webb
TOKIO, May 6. A.A.P.—Tojo's counsel, Ichiro Kiyose, challenged the right of the Chief Justice (Sir William Webb, of Australia) to sit as a member of the War Crimes Tribunal that is trying 27 top-ranking Japanese civilians and service…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged with Stealing From Chinaman
SYDNEY.—A girl who was charged at Parramatta Court to-day with stealing £25 from her Chinese lover was committed for…
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SYDNEY: An Australian seaman was charged before a court martial at Royal Australian Navy Headquarters today with stealing 4097 2½ guilder pieces, 35,577 one guilder pieces and 33,000 one-cent pieces "the property of Queen Wilhelmina of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mutiny in Italian Gaol
Italian auxiliary police and Red Cross workers take care of a Prisoner wounded during the revolt by 3500 heavily-armed prisoners at San Vittore gaol (Milan) at Easter. The rebels controlled the gaol for 72 hours. The operations of the Italian…
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KEMPSEY, Tuesday.—James Stanley Krilley. 30, was remanded until May 22 on a charge of having assaulted and caused bodily harm to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
INDECENT LANGUAGE.—For having used indecent language in Hunter-street, Maurice Gerard Finnigan, 23, labourer. David Bennett, 24. labourer, and John…
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BATAVIA, May 7. A.A.P.—The Indonesian Ministry of Information announced that Indonesian police arrested two Japanese and three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death for Four Japs 8 Receive Long Gaol Terms
RABAUL, Tuesday.—Four sentences of death and eight of long terms of imprisonment were imposed on Japanese criminals in the War…
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BRUSSELS, Tuesday.—A military court at Malines sentenced to death the 16 members of the staff of Breendonck concentration camp, says…
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Acting Inspector Arthur J. Barber, who was for four years detective sergeant in charge of detectives and plain-clothes police in Newcastle, died…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Under cross-examination in the kiosk murder trial, Douglas Ronald Morris, 26, journalist, admitted to-day that he had tried to mislead the police "I considered I had gone too…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Defence Case Ends at Kiosk Murder Trial (Continued From Page One)
Evidence for the defence in the Kiosk Murder Trial ended early this afternoon. The Crown then recalled police witnesses to contradict some evidence given by the defence…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Teeth From Nazi Victims Nuremberg Court Sees Film
NUREMBERG, May 7. A.A.P.—The War Crimes Tribunal this morning watched for 20 minutes a film showing stocks of gold-filled teeth…
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