Billiards in Court Showman on Cheating Charge
The Magistrate (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd), a solicitor and police experimented with a small table, on which there were four billiards balls and a…
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Courts & crime, 1946
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 45 of 129
Man Charged With Murder of Parents
LONDON, May 15. A.A.P.—"I did this to keep all the worry from Mum and Dad, whom I love dearly. May God forgive me." This note…
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Commenting that when men were found standing at the bar drinking during prohibited hours it was impossible not to give a…
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ATHENS, May 15. A.A.P.—Sentence of death was passed on a 24-year-old law student, Prokion Tambakopoulos, who was twice sentenced…
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FOR TRIAL.—On an amended charge of having broken Into the home of Henrich Bumann, at Sandy Point, Nelson Bay, on April 5, with intent to steal…
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SYDNEY.—After a child was shot dead last night at Botany its parents inflicted injuries on John Frederick Hargrove, 30, a…
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Pleading guilty to three charges before Mr. T. A. Doolan, S.M., at Wallsend Court today, Arthur Smith, 50, miner, was fined £9 in…
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A beer-syphoning machine, an exhibit at Wallsend Police Court today, but not 147 quarts of beer that were mentioned, was released…
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SYDNEY: The issue over which the recent stoppage of work occurred at Riverstone Meat Works came before the Industrial Commission…
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SYDNEY.—Allegations that he imposed on a returned soldier and other people by promising to build them homes were made…
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SYDNEY: Three naval ratings, Able-Seamen Francis Hobart, Trevor Gordon Eastman, and Laurence Reuben Pascoe, all of H.M.A.S. Bungaree, charged with stealing £5410 worth of coin belonging to the Netherlands East Indies Government, pleaded…
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THE HAGUE, May 16. A.A.P.—A Special Court sentenced the Dutch Nazi, Henri Maasdijk, the city's Deputy-mayor during the German…
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SINGAPORE, May 16. A.A.P.—A Japanese, Lieutenant Orimo Hiroshi was sentenced to 15 years' rigorous imprisonment for brutalities that…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd. S.m.)
FOR SENTENCE.—Richard Andrew McCormick, 49, labourer, was remanded the to-day for sentence on a charge of having begged alms in Hunter-street…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The State Government is expected to agree to an amendment of the Child Welfare Act to enable all cases of…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The action of a union in censuring a member for initiating a court hearing against its wishes was criticised by Judge…
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SYDNEY: Mr. J. Yeldham, solicitor, said in Manly Court to-day that he understood an application would be made to the High Court next week to test the validity of the new War Service Moratorium Regulations, under which occupation of vacant premises…
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SYDNEY.—A.B. Trevor G. Eastman was sentenced today to one year's hard labor after being found guilty, by court martial, of stealing…
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REMANDS.—Stanley Stone, 23, wheeler, and Arnold Alwyn Elias, 18, labourer, were remanded to June 10 on a charge of having stolen eight…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Charged with having stolen £900, the property of Howard Crawford McCullagh, it is alleged that Clifford Robert6 Hagan…
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