Girl Made Own Inquiries: Went To Police
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—After conducting her own inquiries into the death of her girl friend at Goulburn, Gloria Emmerton, 16, to-day…
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Courts & crime, 1946
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 51 of 129
U.S. Court Ruling On Negro Status
NEW YORK, Tuesday.—The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that negroes can sit anywhere they like in buses travelling from one State to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Charged With Theft Of Goods From Railway
Goods suspected of having been stolen from the Railway Department were found in the home of a railway porter at Fassifern, Detective J. T. Duffel said in the Newcastle Police Court today…
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CHARGE DISMISSED. — A charge against Ronald Arthur Pomfrett, 25, fitter's apprentice, of stealing, on May 6, a diamante wrist watch and silver…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Five men were convicted at suburban Courts to-day on charges relating to possession of firearms. One was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Police Seek Thugs
SYDNEY.—Following last night's attacks by thugs on three women, police are intensifying their efforts to stamp out Sydney's outbreak of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Told Shaggy Dog Story
SYDNEY.—A wife told Mr. Justice Davidson ,what she alleges is a true shaggy dog story in the Divorce Court today. Mary Irene Dickinson, formerly Edwards. 43, waitress at the Commercial Hotel, Junee, said her husband, William Dickinson, 51,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Took Blankets For Children, Court Is Told
A detective said in the Newcastle Police Court today that a soldier charged with having blankets reasonably suspected of…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Found guilty of rape, Frederick Guthrie, 44, painter and docker was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Remanded on Charge of Assault
Charged with assaulting Hazel Feeney on April 20, Jack A. Harvey, 20, plumber, was remanded to June 20, at Newcastle Police Court…
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SYDNEY.—Two men who escaped from a Black Maria on January 25 were warned by Judge Markell in Quarter Sessions today that they…
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While chewing-gum was obtainable only at military canteens, a box and 134 packets were found at the home of a railway porter at Fassifern, in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
BADGES WORN.—"I do not take a serious view of the matter," said the Magistrate imposing a fine of £2 on George Claude Crews, 26, labourer, for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Zipper" Assault Was Set to Take Malaya
LONDON, June 6. A.A.P.—The Japanese surrendered at the moment when the "Zipper" assault, for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Guard on Show House
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—To prevent "squatters" moving in and establishing tenancy, a police guard has been mounted…
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"I am satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that the goods were stolen but I am not satisfied that they were in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arbitration Court Judges Clash
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—There were angry exchanges between two Judges in the Full Arbitration Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Women Cry "Murder' In U.S. Meat Queue
NEW YORK, Thursday: Hundreds of hysterical women pulled one another's hair and cried "Murder! murder!" in a Brooklyn (New York) meat queue today. Meat queues are new to America…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →This Bird Is Not Police's Pigeon
A sick homing pigeon is being cared for by Newcastle police. The bird was found in the courthouse yard this morning and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Case Taken to Wrong Court
CANBERRA, Thursday.—It was completely untrue to say that a Victorian magistrate had ruled on Monday that preference to returned…
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