Remove 'Police' From Court Titles
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — A bill to remove the word "police" from the titles of certain courts and magistrates passed all stages in the…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 132
Boys Guilty of Murder
LONDON, March 12. A.A.P.—The jury found four boys from the Stan-don Farm Approved School guilty of having murdered the assistant…
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REMANDED.—Reuter Donald christian, 24, labourer, was remanded to March 20 on change of having forged a cheque with intent to defraud and…
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A man reported to Newcastle police yesterday that a house he owned in Kenrick-street, Junction, was missing…
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The story of a violent straggle with a man who had been arrested in a cafe for using indecent language was told by…
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At Belmont Police Court yesterday more than 80 cases were listed. The list took up three foolscap sheets. The lists for April are already…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An elderly man who disliked people smoking at the table put pepper in another man's tobacco, it was alleged in the…
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The Merewether branch of the A.L.P. decided last night that politicians should not increase their salaries without applying to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Speaking from the dock at the Central Criminal Court to-day, two men who, it is alleged, figured in a gun battle…
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On each of two charges of having assaulted police officers, Morgan Edwards, 30, fitter, was sentenced to one mouth's imprisonment by Mr…
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OBERON: Two prisoners, one a "lifer." who escaped from the Oberon Prison Farm last night, returned separately today and gave themselves up. They were Robert Henry Chrystal,…
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HAD 4000 BULLETS.—"It is extraordinary that so many bullets should come into the possession of a civilian," said the Magistrate, imposing a fine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. J. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Stole Sleeping Man's Watch
Sydney Norman Jewan, 32, laborer who was remanded for sentence to today, on a charge of having a motor tyre in the possession of Recce R. Anthony, suspected…
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Waterholes and creeks in the vicinity of Bruce's Reserve, about four miles from Singleton, have been searched by Singleton police…
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CANBERRA Thursday.—Under a new amendment to the Stevedoring Industry Commission Bill, the commission would have the same powers as the Arbitration Court, or a Conciliation Commissioner…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The High Court reserved decision to-day on whether the Acting Chief Judge of the Federal Arbitration Court (Judge Drake-Brockman) has sole authority to…
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SYDNEY: The Full Court of Criminal Appeal today unanimously dismissed an appeal by Sidney Grant, 28, laborer, against his conviction and sentence to death for the murder of a…
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MELBOURNE: The Full High Court today unanimously ruled that Acting Chief Judge Drake-Brockman, of the Arbitration Court, had no power alone to refuse union applications for a separate hearing of the 40-hour week and basic wage cases…
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SENT TO GAOL.—Sydney Norman Jewan, 32, labourer was sentenced to three months imprisonment for knowingly having had in the custody of…
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Charged before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court with having stolen a three-roomed cottage, valued at £15, the…
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