"Hit Georgie with Hammer" Six Chinese on Murder Charge
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Six Chinese, on remand, appeared at the Police Court to-day, in answer to a charge of wilfully murdering another…
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Courts & crime, 1946
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 129
Thieves Evaded Police in Car Chase "Herald" Service
LONDON, Jan. 16.—Burglars, surprised by the police while they were bundling fashionable gowns and blouses into a car from a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—"There was a dearth of equipment for my command at Morotai, and I learned that the only way to secure equipment, for them was to trade liquor to the Americans for services rendered…
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BERLIN, Jan. 17. A.A.P.—A Russia military court has sentenced to death a German railwayman and has ordered confiscation…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Ralph Edgar Humphries, 48, caretaker, and Thelma Humphries, 46, of Crown-street, Surry Hills, were each charged in Central…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—It was reported to the police that a bag containing over £400 was stolen from the footpath of West-street,…
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INDECENT LANGUAGE.—John Henry Allan, 49, seaman, was fined £3 for having used indecent language in the charge room at Newcastle police station…
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The following members of the police force in the Newcastle district have been notified of their transfer—…
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Air Vice-Marshal S. J. Goble, President of the Court, and Air Commodore J. P. J. McCauley, a member of the board of officers, arriving at Bradfield Park for the court-martial of Group Captain Caldwell, D.S.O., D.F.C. and Bar, and Polish Cross of Valour…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Despite efforts to put down large-scale operations, troops in the Morotai area at one time had £100,000 or more in notes an Air Force officer said at Group Captain Caldwell's Court-Martial to-day…
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Parties to two cases of alleged assault, evidence in connection with one of which was heard by Mr. J. Byrne, S.M., at the Newcastle Police…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— Cecil John Murphy, 25, Labourer, charged at Central Court with having shot at Vivena Vera Murphy, on January 17,…
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DISCHARGED.âThe police had no evidence to offer when Francis Xavier Campbell, 56, crane driver, was charged with having driven a car negligently…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—There was a dramatic turn to-day in the court-martial of Group Captain Clive ("Killer") Caldwell, when he pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of improperly selling liquor while stationed at Morotai…
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SYDNEY: Police have not yet cleared up the mystery of the disappearance of Edward Collins, 30-year-old electrician of Bowral, whose…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A man who drew a pistol in a King's Cross cafe on January 9 was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the Central…
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LAE, Friday.—Pale after weeks in hospital, Captain John Joseph Murphy, of Brisbane wearing ribbons of the African and Pacific campaigns…
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SYDNEY: Special precautions were taken today to prevent any interference with a party of 79 Indian seamen who arrived in Sydney en route to Brisbane, to man Dutch ships. Police and Dutch officials were at…
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William Patrick Crotty, 63. council employee, was remanded until February 25 at West Maitland Police Court today on a charge of aiding…
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William Athol Hawkins, 23. dairy farmer was charged at West Maitland Police Court today with having stolen a bicycle the property of…
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