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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 129

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 4

REMANDS.—George Forbes, 20, apprentice boilermaker, was remanded to February 5 on a charge of having stolen at Islington a bicycle, valued at £7,…

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Annameses Murder Two French Officers

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 3

SAIGON. Wednesday. — Mystery of the disappearance of a French Army Staff car near Saigon was solved on Monday when three women…

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Lambton Seeks More Police

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 5

A claim that New Lambton was "very much neglected" as far as police surveillance was concerned. was made by the secretary of New…

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Police Search for Missing Woman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Black trackers have been called in to help solve the mystery of Mrs. Bridget Guy's disappearance from her home…

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Police Call-box System Criticised

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 2

New Lambton did not have adequate police protection under the call-box system, particularly on Saturday afternoons, the Secretary of…

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Servicemen Released for Police Force

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The New South Wales Manpower Directorate has approved or effected 106 applications for discharge from the…

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Discarded Soccer Club to Appeal to Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 8

Weston Soccer Club, ousted from the New South Wales Soccer Football Association's first division competition for 1946, will act on legal advice, and seek an injunction to restrain the association from proceeding with its decision…

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Dismembered Corpse Found Murder of Pretty Girl Shocks U.S. "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—America was shocked to-day by another brutal dismembered corpse murder, the second within a week…

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Batman's Evidence on Liquor Sales at Court Martial

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY: Air Vice-Marshal S. J. Goble (President), AirCommondore J.P.J.McCauley and Group-Captains S.A.C. Campbell,J.A. Cohen and B.R. Pelly resumed today, at Bradfield park, the hearing of te charges against Squadron-Leader…

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Maltese Charged With Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY —A Maltese market gardener, Joe Xuereb, 36, was charged at Parramatta Court this morning with the murder of share-farmer Paul…

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Man Sentenced in Absence Arrested

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—West Australian police report that they have arrested George Harris, draper, of Lutwyche, Brisbane, who on…

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Maltese Killed, Man Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Paul Grima, 45, Maltese, was shot dead to-night at his home in Waters-street, Blacktown, Joe Xuereb, 36,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 5

REMANDED.—Alan Jack Anderson, 28, trans conductor, was remanded to January 25, on £20 ball, on a charge of having driven a car in Tudor-street,…

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Remand on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 8

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Charged in the City Police Court with the wilful murder of Bridget Guy, on about December 29, 1945, at…

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Man Faces 180-Year Gaol Sentence "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—At the General Sessions to-day a 55-year-old man, who conducted his own defence, found himself facing a…

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Threatened With Murder, Says Adamstown Wife

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 3

Going to her mother's home at Minmi on January 14, her husband, "with a deathly look in his eye," took a rasp from his shirt and threatened to murder her, Mrs. Ivy Rowlands, the mother of five children, said at Wallsend Police Court today…

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Jap Police Beat Up Communists

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 2

TOKIO, Thursday: Shouting, "Banzai! Long live the Emperor!" Japanese police broke up a Communist meeting…

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Police Puzzled by Man's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday—Police are puzzled by the death of a man in the Royal South Sydney Hospital this morning. Police were told that…

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Wide Police Hunt for Sex Fiends

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Wide searches are being made for sex fiends who have made attacks on two little girls in Sydney in less…

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Played "Two-up" Near Police Station

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 7

About 50 persons started playing "two-up" in Cowper Street, Carrington, within 150 yards of the Police Station on Christmas Eve…

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