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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 132

Mulley Robbed (Continued from Page 1) Police List Of Stolen Jewellery

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 2

The police description of the stolen property is: White gold engagement ring, with three diamonds In a square setting,…

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"Camera-Gun" Murderer Shot by Police "Herald" Service and A.A.P.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 January 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, January 7.—Tracked to his hideout in the Catskill Mountains, the former convict Alphonso Ruocco, 28, who engineered the…

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Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 6

REMANDED TO BELMONT.—Elwyn Ross Fernance, 33, bus driver, was charged with having, in Ocean-street, Dudley, on January 1, driven a motor…

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£500 Fine, Gaol Proposed for Drunken Drivers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A fine not exceeding £500 or imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both, are included in alterations to the law…

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Police Funeral for Ex-sergeant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 6

A police funeral will be held to-day for Mr. E. C. Whitechurch, a former sergeant, who died on Tuesday. The funeral will leave David…

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Stop Express Charged with Armed Hold-up at Mullet Home

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 16

SYDNEY: In the Central Police Court this afternoon Jack Charles Adams, 25, packer, appeared on three charges of armed robbery at the home…

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Court at Teralba "Deplorable"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 3

"The conditions under which wd hold courts out here are deplorable; I cannot understand why it has been allowed to go on for so many years."…

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Police Allege Woman Given Poisoned Brandy

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY: A man, who is alleged to have given a woman brandy containing strychnine, also took poison himself, police said at Paddington Court today, when Harold Brownlow, 54, was charged with having, on January 3,…

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Bomb Explodes in German Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 3

FRANKFURT, Jan. 8. A.A.P.—It is stated officially that a bomb exploded in a Denazification Court at Nuremburg last night. There were…

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Thought Murdered Woman Drunk Before Death, Police State

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY: A woman who was later found dead at her home was under the influence of liquor and in an argumentative and arrogant mood less than two hours prior to her death, said a police witness at the City Coroner's Court…

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German Soldier Baffles U.S. Federal Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 2

DETROIT, Wednesday: Private Rudolph Solech, a former bodyguard to Hermann Goring, baffled the Federal Court here by refusing to disclose how he escaped from a prison camp in California…

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Three Remanded On Stealing Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 2

Lawrence Joseph Craggs, 20, laborer, was charged at Newcastle Police Court today with breaking and entering the premises of Alister Maguire, at Pell…

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Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 8

REMAND.—Noel Kenneth Stewart, 18, soldier, was remanded until to-day on charges of having, at Newcastle on January 7, stolen clothes to the value of…

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Soldier Admits Theft From Room Mate

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 4

Henry Levack left his room at Macquarie House, Watt Street, Newcastle, on the morning of January 7, and on his return found that the whole…

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Man Charged With Mulley Hold-up

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 January 1947 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Jack Charles Adams, 28, packer, was charged at Central Court to-day with having, while armed with a…

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Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 11

£100 BAIL.—Ball was fixed at £100 each for Lawrence Joseph Craggs, 20, Alan Peter Keith Healey, 22, and John Edward Bishell, 24, labourers, who were…

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"Toy Boat" Murder Alleged

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.—The police allege that Mrs. Rosina Ann Cornock, 34, of Bristol, murdered her husband by hitting him on the head with a toy boat while he was tied up in his bath, and then drowning him. When the pathologist who exam-…

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Got More for Gaol Breaches Than for Crime

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 3

BRISBANE, Friday.—A sentence of eight months gaol, for having escaped from Boggo-road Gaol, was imposed on Arthur Ernest Halliday,…

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German Police Fire On Coal Train Looters

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 2

BERLIN, Friday.—German police fired over the heads of 300 coal-train looters near Cologne in the British Zone. Previously, the looters pelted with lumps of coal civilians who attempted to disperse them…

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Mother Beat Boy Each Night, Court Told

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Friday.—Mrs. Vera Southam, of Buckingham, was said in court to have admitted that she thrashed her young foster-son every night for three years and that "he seemed to enjoy it.'…

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