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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 132

Convicts, Broadcasting From Gaol, Chose Apt Number

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY: Piece de resistance played by Goulburn Gaol convicts over Station 2GN yesterday was "In a Monastery Garden." The gaol orchestra was conducted by lifer. Alister J. Clark, who has served 18 years for the murder of his wife…

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Police Seek Skeleton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 2

Newcastle police are investigating a report by two boys that they saw portion of a human skeleton on the beach at Salt Ash on Saturday…

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Charged With Trying To Rape Mother-in-law

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 4

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday. —A 43-year-old farmer was charged at Dunedin Court with having tried to rape his mother-in-law, aged…

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Police Conference Compulsory Unionism Advocated

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY: Compulsory unionism to force non-members into the Police Association was suggested by the…

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Police To Seek "Full Rights"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Full recognition as an industrial trade-union and, full arbitration rights will be advocated by members of the New…

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Tennis Players In Court May 13

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 2

Several tennis players, whose names were taken by Greater Newcastle Council officers for playing on park courts on Sundays, have been cited…

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Orion Passenger Got Court Summons Just Before Vessel Sailed

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY: A summons to attend the Bankruptcy Court was served on a manufacturer's wife, a passenger on the Orion, during a farewell party on the ship just before it sailed on Saturday, the Registrar in Bankruptcy…

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American Charged With Theft Of 504 Diamonds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 4

YOKOHAMA, April 14. A.A.P.— Colonel Edward Murray, former Army custodian of the vaults of the Bank of Japan, is being tried for…

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Three Butchers Charged With Blackmarketing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Three men allegedly associated with black-market meat transactions were charged in the High Court before Mr…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 8

REMANDED.—Charles Ronald Jones. 39, seaman, was remanded untill to-day on £5 ball on a charge of offensive behaviour in Market-street. Mr. A…

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Two Charged; Mutilation Of Calves Alleged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 8

Allegations that teats had been cut from two Ayrshire calves with scissors before being sent to the saleyards for auctions were made at…

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Murder Charge Against Mother Fails

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—Ida Lillian Higgens, 21, was charged at Central Criminal Court to-day with having murdered her illegitimate baby. The…

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Wallsend Asks More Police Protection

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 4

"Without a night-watchman, Wallsend had adequate police protection," the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Mr. J. W. Scott)…

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40-Hour Week Promised To Police Force

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Minister for Conservation (Mr. Weir) told the annual conference of the Police Association to-day that the 40-hour week…

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Man Denies Assault on Wife

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 7

MRS. EILEEN MURIEL GAHAN alleged at Newcastle Sessions that her husband, Maurice Gahan, 39, labourer, had assaulted her in…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 7

DISORDERLY:—Michael Bikoft, 43, seaman, was fined £10, with £3/3/ costs, for having behaved in a disorderly manner on the British ship Trident on…

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Quarter Sessions At Newcastle (Before Judge Nield) Theft From Railways

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 3

John Athol Christopher Kane. 22. railway porter, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing two cartons of cigarettes, the property of the Railway Commissioner, at…

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Would Like To Police Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 2

The strictest attention should be said to seeing that hotels provided accommodation for tourists and the travelling public, Mr. C. G…

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Police Called To Wounded Man

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 1

Detectives were called early this morning to St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, where they found a man with head injuries and a bullet wound…

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"In Hands of Court"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—No action has yet been taken by the Commonwealth to intervene in the Victorian metal trades dispute…

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