Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
REMANDED—George Scott, 24, labourer was remanded to April 3 on a charge of having maliciously damaged on March 27 two marble slabs and a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 31 of 132
On Attempted Murder Charges
SYDNEY, Friday.—Mrs. Constance Lesley Walker, of Beecroft-road. Beecroft, was charged at Central Court to-day with having attempted…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appeal In Chalkpit Murder Case
LONDON, March 28. A.A.P.—The "Evening News" says that Lawrence John Smith, who, with Thomas John Ley, was, on March 24, sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Actor Exposes Scene-Stealing Tricks That Annoy The Stars
HOLLYWOOD, Friday. — Scene-stealing "tricks of the trade", employed by fellow actors and actresses are exposed by Henry Fonda…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Raymond Terrace Police Court (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, S.m.) Cruelty to Horse
Harold Victor Andrews was charged on October 19. that he used on a horse spurs with sharpened rowels. He was further charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Awarded King's Police Medal
Ex-sergeant "Paddy" Pender, who was presented with the King's Police Medal by the Governor at Government House on Thursday. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Charged; Man Stabbed
MELBOURNE, Sunday. — Douglas Vivian Alcock, 23, of Brunswick-street, Fitzroy, was stabbed in a fight outside a hotel in Fitzroy late…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Patna Police Strike Ends
LONDON, March 30. A.A.P.—The Patna police strike has ended. In announcing this, the Inspector-General of Police in Bihar province…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Talk Of Hypnotism By Man On Charge Of Murder
SYDNEY: A man who was said to have told police last November that both he and his wife were under the hypnotic influence of his wife's lover, appeared at Central Criminal Court today charged with murdering her a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Claims Court Contributes To Unrest
"I OFTEN feel that Arbitration Court Judges help cause industrial unrest," Mr. C. Griffiths (Adamstown) told the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Child Slept In Closet As Police Searched
SYDNEY, Sunday. — After police had searched North Bondi for four hours last night for a missing child, a constable found her in a clothes…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Want Probe of Arbitration Court Delays
The Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) is to be asked by Newcastle Federal Electorate Council of the A.L.P. to request the Attorney-General to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Allegation In Court Wife Injured In Melee With Husband
A wife who had charged her husband with causing her grievous bodily harm had suffered an eye injury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Charged With Murder
MELBOURNE, Monday.—On a charge of having murdered Douglas Vivian Alcock, labourer, of Bruns-wick-street, Fitzroy, on Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
HAD NO LICENCE.—William Mendoza, 21, Alick Robey, 20, and Ellis Roy Lawrence, 24, seamen, were each fined £10 for having carried on the business…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Maitland Quarter Sessions (Before Judge Nield) Three Years for Stealing
A sentence of three years' hard labor on each of three charges was Imposed on Ernest Edward Barwick, 21, laborer. Barwick was charged with having at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Woman Was "Frightened Of The Police"
A woman at the Maitland Quarter Sessions today said she had denied writing a letter to the Railway Department and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thought Himself Hypnotised, Court Told
SYDNEY, Monday.—A man whom the Crown alleged was falsely obsessed with a belief that his wife was unfaithful pleaded "Not guilty"…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court Grants Some Penalty Rates
The Arbitration Court in Melbourne yesterday granted time and a half for Saturday work to shift-workers in the gas industries and railways and tramways, and double time for Sunday overtime where time…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death Sentence Will Be Commuted For Ex-Police Constable
SYDNEY: The sentence of death, passed on former Police Constable William Joseph Cable for having murdered his wife, Mrs. Audrey Elva Cable, on September 22, 1946, will be commuted to life imprisonment by the State Cabinet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →