Court Claim on Stawell Gift Withdrawn
MELBOURNE, Monday.—An application to the Supreme Court to restrain the Stawell Athletic Club from preventing Don…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 34 of 132
Man Admitted Firing Shots At Rival For Girl, Police Say
SYDNEY: A man admitted firing two or three revolver shots at another man who "took his girl" a police witness alleged in Balmain Court today. The man, William Watson. 42…
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SYDNEY: Allegations were made by police in Burwood Court today that a man was murdered—stabbed through the chest—at a drinking party at a house in Dean Street, Enfield, last night…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Nearly £3000 worth of suiting material was stolen from an interstate transport truck in a depot in Hanna-street,…
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REMANDS.—Francis Andrew Burg, 23, carpenter, was remanded to May 1, on £20 bail, an charges of having driven a car in Maitland-road, Islington, while…
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"These cases are another illustration of rank dishonesty in some sections of industry. Some people seem to regard it as their right to help…
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GIRL LAUGHS as she is charged with murder. Benlah Louis Overen (17) stands laughing, arm in arm with her fiance, George Gollum (21), in Justice Court. Los Angeles, California, as a charge accusing them of murdering her wealthy parents is read. It is alleged that they placed a…
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NEW YORK, April 8. A.A.P.—As the climax to one of the most sensational gambling and bribery exposures of recent years, Alvin J. Paris, 28,…
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LONDON, Tuesday: With hands and feet tied with laces from new boots he had for Easter, the body of four-year-old Glendower Owen Parfitt was found on Monday night in a Welsh river. A nine-year-old boy was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd S.m.) in Hotel After Hours
Entering the Terminus Hotel on March 1 at 9.55 p.m., Sergeant Downie saw a man in the hallway with a bottle of wine in his possession. He said he had purchased…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man charged with having wounded another, with intent to murder, had a revolver and pair of scissors when arrested…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Full Court of Criminal Appeal to-day reserved judgment on an appeal by Frederick Lincoln McDermott, 38,…
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REMANDED.—Norman Stanton, alias Norman Stanley Bolger, 32, labourer, was remanded to May 7 on a charge of having taken and used a car at Began…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Kurri Police Court (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.m.) on Licensed Premises
Leslie Herbert Merles pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found on the licensed premises of Chelmsford Hotel, Kurri. during prohibited hours on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.m.) Railway Tickets Stolen
Raymond Andrew Fitzgerald, 32, railway porter, was given a suspended sentence of 14 days imprisonment for the theft of 15s 1d, the property of the commissioner for…
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LONDON, April 9. A.A.P.— A 29-year-old mother in London and a nine-year-old boy in Wales are facing murder…
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SYDNEY: On the ground of her insanity Mrs. Jean Ethel Wright, 31, of Strathfield, was found not guilty of the murder of her four-months-old son, at the Central Criminal Court today…
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GLEN INNES, Wednesday.—A half-caste boxer was arrested in Glen Innes to-day and charged with the murder of a white man at Armidale…
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Top: Fourteen-year-old Mary Catherine Reardon, acquitted by a Juvenile Court in St. Louis, U.S.A., of a charge of delinquency in connection with her father's murder of February 8, listens to phonograph records with Mrs. David Moran, wife of her cousin,…
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ST. JOSEPH (Missouri), April 9.—A youth who confessed to having murdered a man said he had felt an…
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