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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 132
MELBOURNE: The Commonwealth Arbitration Court has intervened in the waterfront dispute and has summoned the parties to appear before Judge Foster in Sydney at 2.15 p.m. on Monday. This was announced this afternoon by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No arrangements have yet been made for the Arbitration Court hearing of the waterside dispute, which threatens to tie up all Australian ports. The Industrial Register (Mr. Murray Stewart) said in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BERLIN, Thursday. — One thousand cigarettes are being offered by Hamburg Police as a reward for information leading to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Edna Elizabeth Sykes, 32, domestic duties, was charged before Judge Nield at Newcastle Sessions with having stolen, at Bowman-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—A thief to-day stole two bans containing jewellery valued at £1100, about £300 in cash, and 2000 current meat coupons…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →REMANDED.—A remand to the Central police Court, Sydney, was granted in the case in which Ray Sykes, 28, seaman, was changed with having, on…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. A.A.P.—An Australian, Christopher George Campbell, 28, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for cheque…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BRISBANE, Thursday.—It was highly improbable that Bronia Mary Armstrong, 19, had committed suicide, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Edna Elizabeth Sykes (32), domestic duties, denied at Newcastle Quarter Sessions today that she had stolen a safe containing more than £2000. Sykes had pleaded not guilty to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →PALESTINE, Thursday: Police have been warned to watch for Isaac Yesternitsky, deputy commander of the terrorist Stern Gang, who has escaped from a detention camp in Eritrea and is now believed to be trying to reach Palestine…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY: Arrangements between two youths to rob a butcher's shop where one was employed were mentioned by police when both appeared in Central Court today. The youths. William James…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Thursday.—The appointment of 15 conciliation commissioners will form part of proposed new legislation to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—The appointment of a court psychiatrist to assist and to cooperate with probation officers is planned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FORTUNE-TELLING CHARGE.—Kathleen Eileen Risden, 72, domestic duties, was charged with having at Newcastle on November 14, 1946, pretended to tell…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Friday.—Phillip Dudleigh Walker, 49, accountant, has been committed for trial on charges of having stolen on March 25, 1946,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—A boot found near the body of an English remittance man, John Mason, 50, may provide a clue to the identity of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →BRISBANE, Friday.—At the Police Court, Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Bronia Mary Armstrong, 19…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Friday.—After two shots and screams were heard from a house at Granville to-day, a woman staggered into…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE.— A partly-completed crossword puzzle in a newspaper left in a bungalow in St. Kilda was evidence that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE: Chan Sin. 25, of Bourke Street, Melbourne, stall-holder, one of the Chinese charged with murder, was suffering from cancer caused by having been struck on the jaw by Japanese while helping an Australian P.O.W.,…
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