3 Charged With £500 Theft
SYDNEY, Monday.—Detectives arrested two men and a woman at a King's Cross flat late to-night and took possession of £500 worth of…
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Courts & crime, 1946
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 129
Mystery Murder
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.— A 27-year-old farm laborer has been arrested in connection with the death of Sydney John Peachey, of…
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SYDNEY.—Impersonating officials of the Public Works Department, two audacious thieves stole a number of painters' trestles and planks…
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John Rollinson was fined £5, at Cessnock Court today, for assaulting May Brommage and £2 for assaulting her husband, Lionel Brommage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →London Police Hunt Mystery Clue To Doreen Marshall Murder Our Special Representative
LONDON, Monday: Detectives at Bournemouth are searching for a trunk believed to contain blood-stained clothing hidden by a man seen with Doreen Marshall on the night she was murdered a fortnight ago. A cab driver told police that short-…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
BETTING OFFENCES.—Harold Hansen. 43, clerk, had a record of 27 bet from 1/ to £1 when arrested for using premises in Northumberland-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Shot; 14-Year-old Son Charged
SYDNEY, Monday.—After a man had been shot in the stomach at his home at Fairfield this morning, his 14-year-old son was charged in the…
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VIENNA, Monday: A doctor and two women assistants are on trial before an Austrian court on charges of the mass murder of 250 children. The Vienna doctor is Ernest Illing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Search for Gunman
SYDNEY, Monday.—Police are combing Sydney and suburbs for a gunman who was foiled in an attempt to rob a taxi-driver at Ashfield on Saturday night, and for a man who attacked a 14-year-old girl at Pagewood yesterday…
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To provide more protection to the public, the Secretary (Mr. M. Doyle) suggested to Hamilton A.L.P. last night that the Police Department…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lured Woman to Room, Allege Police
SYDNEY.—On the understanding that his wife would be present, a painter lured a woman to his room yesterday and…
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Newcastle Vice Squad has intensified its campaign against S.P. bettors, the squad's officer-in-charge (Sergeant H. Larkin) said today. Sgt. Larkin said a record of 42 convictions was secured against S P…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Will Go Direct To Equity Court"
IF OUR appeal on the soldier-player rule is not dealt with this week by the Country League, Maitland Club will go…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →12 Undefended Petitions In Divorce Court
Twelve undefended petitions were heard by Mr. Justice Bonney in the Matrimonial Causes Court, Newcastle…
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A poignant note was introduced today in a Newcastle Divorce Court case when a mother said that when her 15- years-old daughter came to her last Saturday night she couldn't recognise her—they had been separated for so long…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Men Charged With Theft Of Copper Pipes
Between March 29 and' April 1, the Commissioner of Railways at Cardiff lost 15041b of copper piping, valued at £94…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charged with Selling Adulterated Milk
Boy A. McCrae. of Maitland Road, Mayfield, was fined £4 and 8s costs today at Newcastle Police Court far selling adulterated milk…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
"COLD, HUNGRY."—The Magistrate was told that John Meiklejohn. 23, labourer, walked into Newcastle Police Station and complained that he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attempt on Favourite Adelaide Men Charged
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Sydney Claude Clendinnen, 55, investor, of Glenelg, and Albert Wachman, 47, clerk, of Glenelg, appeared in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Year's Gaol, £100 Fine For Carrying Arms
SYDNEY: Twelve months imprisonment and a fine of £100 in default an additional 200 days' gaol was the sentence imposed at Central Police Court today for carrying a firearm in the City last night on Lionel Stafford Joseph Hill, 20, laborer…
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