New Figure In Chalk-Pit Murder Trial
LONDON, March 23. A.A.P.—Number one Court in the Old Bailey sat on Saturday for the first time for many years, to hear more evidence…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 132
Rail And Gas Men Blame Court, Threaten Strike
SYDNEY: Railwaymen and gas workers are threatening to strike unless their claims for week-end penalty rates are speedily dealt with. The Australian Council of the…
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PERTH, Monday.—An 18-Near-old youth was charged at M[?]llawa Police Court to-day with the murder of his 21-year-old brother…
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LONDON, Monday: Found guilty of the Chalk Pit Murder, Thomas John Ley, former Minister of Justice in N.S.W., who was sentenced to death, accused Lord Chief Justice Goddard of a biassed summing up…
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REMANDS.—Jack Altchinson, 41, traveller, was remanded until May 27 on charges of having, at Hamliton on February 6, driven a car along…
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SYDNEY.—A Quarter Sessions jury today acquitted William Samuel Barton Olesen, 25, baker, on a charge of having stolen £250, the property of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Crown alleged in the Central Criminal Court to-day that a woman's handbag had been stolen to lure her into Cooper…
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LONDON, March 24.—An entire family—father, mother son, and daughter—have been arrested in Paris on a charge…
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LONDON, Monday: Three of the five Gold Coast natives, condemned to death for ritual murder, were hanged yesterday afternoon, according to Reuters correspondent in Accra…
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BATAVIA, March 24.—Two hours after an order had been made seizing the American freighter Martin Behrman's Indonesian cargo here…
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NEW YORK, Monday—Police with axes and crowbars battered their way into a mystery home in uptown Manhattan which for years was occupied by two lonely millionaire brothers…
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LOS ANGLES, March 25.—Louise Overell, 17-year-old blonde heiress, and her fiance, George Bud Gollum, 21-year-old medical student, have been charged with the murder of Louise's parents…
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UNLAWFUL ASSAULT.—As a result of a fight between the chief steward. Leonard Hendry and the cook, Raymond Murray, on the S.S. Tevlotbank, on…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An olderly woman whom police and fireman rescued from a narrow ledge 25ft. above the ground at the Haymarket…
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It was not the fault of magistrates or solicitors that there was congestion of cases at the Newcastle Courthouse, but of the Department of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — In the Divorce Court to-day Mr. Justice Edwards adjourned for one week an application by John Albert Males,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Handbags, Sardines Looted From Ship, Court Is Told
A carero of women's handbags and sardines was looted wholesale from a ship moored at Carrington, Newcastle Police Court was…
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An additional magistrate will sit at Newcastle Police Court for one week, commencing on Monday. Mr. Carr-Boyd, S.M., made this…
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ASSAULT.—Lesile Sydney Smith, 27, fireman, was fined £4, with 10/ costs, on a charge of having unlawfully assaulted Arthur Howard, train conductor,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man Gaoled For Theft Of Garden Hose
Allan Jeffrey Hopkins, 26, laborer, made two visits to a house at Mayfield, stealing 60 feet of garden hose and a lawn mower on the first…
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