Railway Land to Be Sold; Sought For Police Boys
The Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. Quinlan) appealed to business men last night not to bid against the Police Boys' Club for a piece of land…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 132
Body Of Girl Found In Brisbane Arcade: Strangled Say Police
BRISBANE: The body of a young girl was found in a room on the first floor of Wallace Bishop's Arcade Building in Albert Street, City, this morning. Stretched full-length, the body was…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Reginald Spence Wingfield Brown, 49, of Lucia, was charged last night with the murder of a stenographer,…
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MADRID, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—A Spanish military court sentenced four Republicans whose trial on charges of plotting against the Franco…
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WARSAW, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—The Warsaw Military Court announced that on January 14 it would sentence Count Grocholski, who, with three…
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ATHENS, Sunday.—A former German commander in Crete, General Andrea, has been handed over to Greek police by U.S. authorities for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A.W.L. Soldier Is Gaoled For Theft
An A.W.L. soldier was sentenced to one month's hard labor by Mr. CarrBoyd, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court today for stealing clothes valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.S. Court Asked To Set Aside Fines On Miners
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—Briefs have been filed requesting the Supreme Court to set aside fines of £1,093,750 imposed on the union…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The New South Wales Government has proclaimed a special court at Bathurst on February 17 for the trial of…
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STEALING.—Noel Kenneth Stewart, 18, soldier, was charged with having, at Newcastle on January 7, stolen clothing valued at £30, the property…
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Found guilty of having, at West Maitland on December 7, taken and used a jeep without the consent of the owner, Thomas George Ross…
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Convicted ol having stolen a sheer and a dust-coat valued at £1 17s, the property of Norman Nicholas Emelm, from a car in Newcastle on…
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BRISBANE, Monday. — Charged with the murder of Bronia Mary Armstrong, 19, Reginald Spence Wingfield Brown, 49, accountant,…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Frederick William Cooper, 65, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered his son, Theodore Richard…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. — Police tired several shots while pursuing four men found breaking out of the Balwyn picture theatre early to-day…
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LONDON, Monday: Walter Neye, a former guard at Flossenburg (Germany) Concentration Camp made an American Army Tribunal at Dachau stop its consideration of charges of torture and killing to consider the case of his trousers…
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There will be a sitting of the District Court at Newcastle on February 10, beginning at noon; and at Cessnook on March 26, at 11 o'clock…
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JERUSALEM, January 13. A.A.P.—Two British policemen and two Arab temporary constables were killed, and 50 Arab and Jewish constables, and 12 British police were wounded when a small car, which was driven up to…
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SYDNEY: In the Divorce Court today Mr. Acting Justice Kirby granted a wife a decree nisi on the ground of…
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TOKYO, Jan. 13. A.A.P.—Reports that a powerful American task force was about to invade Wake Island on October 7, 1943,…
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