£300 Theft From Flat
SYDNEY. Sunday.—Jewellery, furs and clothing valued at more than £300 were stolen early to-day from the 12-roomed flat of Miss Patricia…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 132
U.S. Charged By Korea With Favouring Japan
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. A.A.P.—The spokesman for the Korean Commission accused the United States of giving Japan better treatment than…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dispute Before Court Today
SYDNEY. — The Waterside Workers' dispute, which arose out of a claim for two weeks' paid holidays at £8 16s weekly and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gave Traffic Signs To Police Patrol
A visiting surfer who stepped in front of a police patrol car on Saturday afternoon and gave traffic signs was fined £3. in default six days'…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Drew Batons, Gun on Crowd
SYDNEY, Sunday.—When they tried to arrest five men outside the Petersham Inn Hotel, at Petersham, a police squad was menaced by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Months' Gaol For Theft From Boarder
John Thomas Lawson, 26, laborer, visited a house at Mayfield yesterday and left, taking with him a watch and pocket knife valued at £5. the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol Sentence for Killing Cat
ADELAIDE, Monday.—Walter Leonard Howett was sentenced to gaol for one month by Mr. Sanderson in the Port Adelaide Police, Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m
REMANDED.—Charged with having driven a motor vehicle in Maitland-road [?]stington, while under the influence of drink; with having driven in a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Found Guilty of Assault on Young Girl
James Murphy, 49, labourer, was found guilty at Newcastle Sessions on a charge of having indecently assaulted a girl, aged 9 years and 7…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wigs, Coats Off at Murder Trial
PERTH, Monday.—When Leonard Charles Jackson, 48, of Kalgoorlie, pleaded "Not guilty" at the Criminal Court to-day to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Stop Fight Amongst Aborigines
DARWIN, Monday.—Police intervened in a fight amongst 20 aborigines at a native compound near Darwin to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Dismisses Girl's Appeal
At Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday afternoon, Judge Nield dismissed an appeal by Dorothy May Ponton (24) against the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Seek Identity Of Dead Man
SYDNEY: In their efforts to identify the body of a man washed up at Broad Beach Southport, Queensland, on Sunday, police have extended…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Gives Himself Up To Police
SYDNEY: A 65-years-old man for whom police had been searching since Friday following the shooting of a woman at Granville, today gave…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Smash Negro Gangs In Harlem
NEW YORK, Monday: In a mass raid on Harlem pool rooms and gin mills, police last night arrested 15 negroes. The raid was part of a determined plan to clean up Negro crime…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Seen Twice, Wanted by Police
SYDNEY, Monday.—A man whom detectives wish to question in connection with the shooting of a woman at Granville on Friday has been seen…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Paltry Train Theft
Sir,—The paltry pilfering previously mentioned in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" was carried to an extreme last Tuesday, when my son…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Security Steps After Jews Sentenced
JERUSALEM, Feb. 11. A.A.P.—Following the sentencing of four Jewish youths by a military Court yesterday, all troops in Jerusalem were confined to barracks, police posts were reinforced, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seven Killed in Gaol Riot
RANGOON, Feb. 11. A.A.P.—Seven people are reported to have been killed and about 20 wounded when guards at a prison near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →18 Months' Gaol for Bigamy
Reginald Xavier Casey, 32, storekeeper, was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment by Judge Nield at Newcastle Sessions on a charge of…
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