Police Promotions
SYDNEY.— Promotion to the rank of Acting -Inspector of Sergeants (First-class) J. V. Ramus and J Young was announced by the Police…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 132
Threw Snakes Into Office, Court Told
MELBOURNE, Friday.—William Connelly, 53, a Lang Lang farmer, was committed for trial from the City Court to-day on a charge of…
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SYDNEY.— "Young girls must be protected against themselves," said Judge Shortland at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Police allege that a young Chinese charged last night with the murder of a countryman has been permitted to remain…
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BRISBANE: The Police Court was packed today when Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown (49), accountant, pleaded not guilty to a charge of murdering a 19-year-old girl. The body of the girl Bronia Mary…
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Returning from a returned soldiers' function at East Maitland. William Thomas Haddon Marks, 25. a metal worker, and his companion stopped…
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MELBOURNE: A 31-year-old Chinese had made certain admissions in regard to the shooting last Wednesday night when a Chinese seaman was killed and a taxi driver wounded in Flinders Street Extension, police told the City…
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NEW YORK, Sunday: Red with fury, Judge Dunne, Acting Chief Justice of the Chicago Circuit Court, yesterday declared war on interfering in-laws and threatened gaol for those who interfered in his divorce cases…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →West Maitland Police Court (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson. P.m.) Stole Cycle From Church
A man who stole a bicycle from a church porch at Hamilton on January 22 and later tried to sell it at West Maitland was sentenced to six months' hard labor…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. — Chan Kwan, a 31-year-old Chinese stallholder of Fitzroy, was charged at the City Court to-day with having…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—When Wingfield Spence Brown, 49, accountant, was charged in the Police Court with having…
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At the Newcastle Police Court to-day Lloyd R. Raymond. 23. manufacturer, was charged with stealing a motor car valued at £300. the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. — John Saunders Parker, 45, of Glen Iris-road. Glen Iris, a former General Secretary of the Australian Natives'…
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LONDON, Monday. — A prosecutor apologised in a Southampton Court to two German war prisoners, one of whom had…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Monday.— An intensive manhunt is on here for three notorious prisoners who escaped 24 hours ago from San…
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INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—Lionel Horatio Warner, 54, steward, for indecent behaviour in Watt-street on Saturday, was fined £3…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Frederick Robert Wood, 37, French polisher, was sentenced at Burwood Court to six months' hard labour for having…
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LONDON, Monday.— Thomas John Ley seemed anxious to help police inquiries into the death of John McBain Mudie (35), barman, West London Police Court was told yesterday. Lev (67). a former N.S.W…
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TOKYO, Feb. 3. A.A.P.—The War Crimes Tribunal rejected as "not well founded" motions by the defence for the dismissal of charges…
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CHICAGO, Monday.— Eight terrified hostages, including women and children, lay on an apartment floor while police shot it out with five thugs. The police interrupted the thugs while they were burgling a real estate…
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