Man on Murder Intent Charge
SYDNEY, Friday.—After a man and a woman were treated by St. Vincent's Hospital for symptoms of strychnine poisoning, a man was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 132
Man Faces Attempted Murder Charge
SYDNEY: Charged with administering strychnine to a woman with intent to murder her at Rose Bay yesterday. Harry…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A verdict of murder and suicide was returned by the Coroner (Mr. Stewart) at the inquest to-day on Ralph Gilroy, 40,…
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BRISBANE: Concurrent sentences of three months' gaol were imposed in the police court today on Allan Herbert Marshall Springall (19), school…
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AUCKLAND, Sunday.—Wilfred Markham, 70, carpenter, gave himself up to Hastings police and was taken under arrest on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →57 Charged With Betting Offences
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police arrested 37 men at Five Dock yesterday. At Five Dock police station one man was charged with S.P. betting, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Jap Officers Sentenced Too Lightly" "Herald" Service
LONDON, Jan. 5.—Some former British prisoners of the Japanese think that the war crimes tribunals are punishing the humbler ranking…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crowd Would Not Aid Police
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A large crowd of hostile people refused to go to the aid of three policemen who were being attacked during a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Story Of S.p.Raid On City Hotel
"I have £2000 in this hotel. Do not charge me, Superintendent, or I will do my licence," is what John…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Allan Herbert Springall, 19, schoolteacher, was to-day given concurrent sentences of three months' gaol on each of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clerk Charged With Theft Of Union Funds
SYDNEY.—Joseph Carpendale, 59, stole £1314 from the Australian Workers' Union while employed there as an official during five and a half…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaol, Fines After Sydney Brawl
SYDNEY, Monday.—Two men were gaoled and fined to-day and two others fined on charges arising out of a brawl in the city on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
REMAND.—Beverley Dwyer, 22, labourer, was remanded until January 23 on charges of having obscenely exposed himself in a storm water channel at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two Years' Gaol For Unlicensed Pistol
SYDNEY: For carrying an unlicenced pistol, Denis Keane, 21, laborer, was sentenced to two years' hard labor by Mr. Donaldson, S.M., at…
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SYDNEY.—In Jersey Road, near Paddington Police Station, yesterday afternoon, a man felled his wife with a heavy blow, kicked her and…
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SYDNEY.—A retail butcher who Mr. Atkinson, S.M., said had set up to defy the price-fixing regulations, was fined £30 in the Special Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cessnock Police Court (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.m.)
S.P. BETTING.—Fines imposed on three men in connection with S.P. getting at Cessnock, on December 21, totalled £85…
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SENTENCE SUSPENDED.—Convicted of having embezzled £37/12/3, the property of Arnold Mayes, Clive Hilton Edwards, 33, labourer, was sentenced…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Joseph Carpendale, 51, clerk, was charged at Central Court to-day with having stolen £1314/0/1 from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Arbitration Court's Busy Year
MELBOURNE.—The Commonwealth Arbitration Court dealt with 1009 applications by employers and employees in 1946…
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