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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 50 of 129

£3125 Raised By Police Effort For Anti-T.B. Appeal

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 May 1946 · page 6

Already £3125 has been raised in Newcastle and district as part of the Police effort in the State-wide anti-T.B. appeal, according to figures…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1946 · page 4

FOR TRIAL.—On four charges of theft from cars, Roy Joseph Long. 21, labourer was committed for trial at Newcastle Sessions, on July 22. Bail was…

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200 Apply As Police Women

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.3—About 200 applications have been received by the New South Wales Police Department to fill 16 vacancies with the Women…

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Fishmongers' Supreme Court Injunction

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 June 1946 · page 3

"The sequel to the recent confiscation of 88 boxes of fish from the premises of one of our members." states Mr. J. Neal, secretary of the…

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Death Caused by Poison Police Intensify Inquiries

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—A report by the Government analyst has revealed that poisoning by strychnine caused the death of Audrey Cameron, 20, in her…

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Escaped From Police Van Two Remanded For Sentence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Two young housebreakers who escaped from a "black maria" while being taken from the City to Burwood Court on…

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France Accuses Siam of "Theft" Seeks British, U.S. Aid in Return of Land

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

NEW YORK, June 2. A.A.P. — France has asked Britain and America to request Siam to return territories that were "stolen from Laos and Camboda in 1941," when the Vichy regime ceded…

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Motorist Charged With Manslaughter

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 2

A charge of manslaughter was made against Barry Joseph Kevin Dwyer 20, laborer at Newcastle Police Court today in connection…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 5

STEALING CHARGE.—Ronald Arthur Pemirett, 25, apprentice fitter, pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of having stolen, on May 6, a diamante wristler…

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4 Charged With Offence on Girl

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Keith James Dean, 19, Kevin Bernard Moloney, 18, Arthur Ronald Willis, 16, and Neil Richards, 17, were charged at the…

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Five Years' Gaol For Offence On Girl

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 2

MELBOURNE.—Five years imprisonment for having committed an offence against a girl between the age of 14 and 15 was imposed on Samuel…

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Poisoning Case Baffles Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Police say at least 20 people could have placed the poison in the headache powder that killed Miss Audrey Cameron, 20, at…

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Police Alleged Boy Stabbed

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

SYDNEY, Monday.—William Sebbens, 20, tram conductor, was remanded, on £50 bail in Paddington Court to-day, on a charge of malicious…

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Foreign Legion Will Police British Zone

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 6

LONDON, Monday.—Poles, Baits and Yugoslavs, who elected not to return to their own countries are enrolling in a Foreign Police Legion,…

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All Police to be Armed With Automatics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.— Metropolitan policemen will be armed and will have regular shooting practice, probably once a month, at the Bourke-street…

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Seized Fish Case Before Equity Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Seizure by fishery inspectors on May 23 of 5735 lbs. of fish on premises of a fish agent at Hamilton,…

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Stealing Charge Dismissed

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 3

In the part-heard case against Ronald Arthur Pomfrett, 25, fitter's apprentice, at Newcastle Police Court of stealing a diamond wristlet watch…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 7

DID NOT GIVE WAY.—Harold Mervyn Calvert, of Park-street. Charlestown, was fined £1/10/, with 10/ costs, for having failed to give way with a utility…

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Train Looters Fight Police

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 6

BERLIN, Tuesday. — Hamburg Radio reports that a pitched battle between police and 800 Germans occurred at Hamburg last night…

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Police Announce "War" On Teen-Age Thugs

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 June 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police have declared war on Sydney's 'teen-age gangs of hoodlums following last night's savage bashing of a man at Waverley by three young thugs. THE gangs range in age from 15 to…

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