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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 132

Story Of Armed Hold-up Told In Court To

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 2

How two men had held up a taxi driver at pistol point and robbed him of £12 at Highfields on the night of April 6 was told in the Newcastle Police Court today. Before the Court were Robert…

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Attempted Rape Charge Glass Bloodstains On Accused's Clothes, Detective Tells Court

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 2

Fragments of glass similar to that found at the scene of the alleged assault on a woman had been discovered in the pocket and trouser cuff of clothes belonging to Gerald Clarke, of Toronto, it was stated at Newcastle Quarter…

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Court Rules— Compensation To Be Paid For Natural Death Going To Work

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY: The State Full Court, today ruled that the dependants of a man who died from natural causes while travelling to his employment were entitled to workers' compensation…

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Man Charged With £33,000 Wool Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE: Following five weeks of investigation by Collingwood detectives of big losses of wool…

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Mother Charged Twin Sons Killed Court Told

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Friday.—Charged with murdering her seven-weeks-old twin sons, Mrs. Lilian Warren, 27,…

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Urges Gaol Reform

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 7

Sir,—The leading article on sex perverts and society ("N.M.H.," 14/4/47) was very necessary and much overdue. Some 25 years back I studied…

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Three Gaol Escapees Recaptured

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE.—After walking 16 miles barefooted over paddocks when they escaped from a cell in Wangarratta Police Station, three…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 7

REMANDED,—Charles Alexander McLellan, 40, wharf labourer was remanded to May 30 on a charge of having on November 8 had a large quntity of…

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Two Charged with Taxi Hold-up

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 4

ALLAN ANDREWS, 24 and Robert Johnstone, 24, labourers, who appeared in the Police Court yesterday before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd,…

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Freed in £32,000 Cloth Theft Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Charged to-day at the Quarter Sessions with having received part of £32,000 worth of stolen dress material, James…

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Police Raid Golf Club, Guesthouses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Sydney police vice squad raided a golf club at Katoomba to-day. Poker machines were confiscated…

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Wants Court To Probe Profits

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Federal Arbitration Court should be clothed with power to investigate profits of large concerns and to order them to…

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Girl Charged With Horse Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A young girl was charged at Newtown Police Station last night with having stolen two horses—one a well-known Harold…

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Wardsman Charged With Bigamy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 6

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Arrested by police at a wedding reception, Ernest Michatel Rafferty, 39, wardsman, was charged at Central Police Court with…

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£3000 Jewel Theft From Parked Car

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Jewels worth £3000 were stolen from a car left unattended by a Sydney business man in Hunter-street,…

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Man Stabbed To Death; Brothers Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Two brothers were arrested to-day and charged with murder, after a man had been stabbed to death in a brawl…

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Unions Before Court to Explain Action

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Hopes of a settlement of the Victorian Transport and Metal Trades tie-up were centred on the…

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Police Small Disputes Only; Limit on U.n.o. Force

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, April 20. A.A.P.—The Military Staff Committee of the United Nations Security Council has decided to limit the size of the proposed international police force to one that can handle disputes…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 6

LIQUOR OFFENCE.—Lawrence Edward Harbutt, 28, electrician, was fined £2 for having taken a bottle of pert wine into Tyrrell Hall on the night…

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Murder Charge After Brawl

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 10

BRISBANE, Monday.—A Sydney detective's flight to Brisbane at the week-end led to the arrest to-day of Albert Edward Moore 19, an English…

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