Police Say Driver Was Drunk
Questioned in connection with a motor accident, the driver of an overturned lorry was so drunk he had to be…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 132
7 Youths Charged with Rape
SYDNEY: A 27-year-old barmaid had told him that she had been criminally assaulted by 16 men, said a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →20 Years' Gaol for Cambodian Traitor
PARIS, February 27. A.A.P.—Dispatches from Indo-China state that a French military tribunal, sitting with closed doors, sentenced Soi Ngog…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court Newcastle Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m
OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Carl Allred St. Clair Balcombe, 43, labourer, was fined £2 for offensive behaviour. Constaore E. H. Stanger said that about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three Young Men on Murder Charge
ROCKHAMPTON, Thursday. — Three young men were charged at Rockhampton Court to-day with the murder on Tuesday of Flora Prior,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Hunt Two Escapees
SYDNEY.—A man-hunt has developed throughout the metropolitan area for two men who escaped from custody…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Stoned; Incident Of Royal Tour
PORT ELIZABETH, Feb, 27, A.A.P.—Reuters learns that workers at Uitenhage pelted police with stones when the Royal train did…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →S.A. Police Get New Radio Gear
MELBOURNE, Thursday.— Frequency modulation, a late development in radio transmission, will be used officially, for the first time in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m
REMANDED.—William John Jones, 40, storeman, was remanded to March 31, on £20 ball, on a charge on having been in the bar of the Rawson Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lost £7000 at Races; Man Gaoled for Theft
SYDNEY, Friday.—A man sentenced to-day at the Quarter Sessions to three years' gaol for having stolen £289 from his employer was stated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Get Their Test Orders
READY FOR TEST. Sixty policemen lined up at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday getting last-minute instructions before the start of the Fifth Test Match…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court Holds Master of Liner to Blame
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Friday.—The Master of the Wanganella (Captain R. Darroch) was to-day held solely to blame for the stranding of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Action to Evict Tenants From Flats Site
Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., at Newcastle Tenancy Court, application was made by Australian Provincial Assurance Ltd. for eviction…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Smash, Grab Theft, Man Charged
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A smash and grab robbery in which three wrist watches were allegedly stolen from the window of a jewellery shop in…
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Following the death of John Clark, 59, of Nulkaba, near Cessnock, on Saturday night, the police arrested David Clark, a younger…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Kelvin Lenore Diggins, 22, who escaped from a prison van between Long Bay and Parramatta Gaol on Thursday, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lights Off Police Stalk Men
SYDNEY, Sunday.—With revolvers drawn, more than 30 police searched for three hours in [?]ness among b[?]cases in bond store, [?]re in the building…
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SINGAPORE, March 2. A.A.P.—The Deputy Commissioner for Labour in Kedah (Northern Malaya) said the authorities were not evacuating all…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Say Man On Arson Charge "Mental Deficient"
SYDNEY: A man, accused of setting fire to a house in Crown Street yesterday, knowing that a woman was on the premises, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Told Story Of Gun Duel At Taronga Park Zoo
SYDNEY: The story of the arrest of two brothers at North Sydney on September 23, after each of them had allegedly fired a shot in the direction of detectives who had challenged them, was told in Quarter Sessions today…
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