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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 48 of 132

Newcastle Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M. Broke Bottle, Swore

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 2

When Sidney Parker, 42. laborer, fell over in Hunter Street last night and broke a bottle of wine he was carrying he expressed his disgust in some lurid language,…

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Man Shot Dead, Youth On Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Vincent Hill, 26, was found with a bullet through his heart lying in the back yard of a house in Edward-street, Marrickville,…

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Irish Police Got The Bird

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 1

LONDON, Monday: Four thousand Irishmen defied two police forces to stage the illegal North Ireland versus South cockfighting championships, which started yesterday. But it was like a football game without a ball, for North Irish police…

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Police Inquiry On Man's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 1

WINGHAM, Monday.—Police are inquiring into the circumstances of the death of James Samuel Geelan 48, whose body was found in the…

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New Hamilton Tennis Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 4

The Deputy Town Clerk (Mr. Miller) reported to the Works Committee yesterday receipt of a letter from residents of houses in the…

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Deportation Order To Stand, Court Rules

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY—The State Full Court today refused to order the release of an Indonesian seaman who is in Long Bay Gaol awaiting deportation…

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Police Charge With Batons To Check Women Shoppers

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 1

DURBAN, Monday.—European women fought with Indians and Africans at an "after-the-Royal-visit" clearance sale here. The store which held the sale made the heaviest price cuts in eight years…

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Police Chief Says—Ms.L.A. Always Asking Favours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. J. MacKay) said to-day that Members of Parliament were always asking favours of him. He said he had known Mr…

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Boy With Water Pistol Had Police On Alert "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 1

LONDON, May 19.—In the middle of London's search for murdering gunmen, detectives and two police forces were put…

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Crown Witness Tells Court . . . Girl hugged Chinese After Man Stabbed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE: Evidence that a Chinese seaman and a girl embraced after the Chinaman had fatally…

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Five Years' Gaol For Assault; "Dangerous Man"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man convicted of assault and occasioning actual bodily harm was sentenced to five years' imprisonment at the…

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Hungarian Students Sentenced to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 1

LONDON, May 20. A.A.P.—Budapest Radio stated that an Hungarian People's Court sentenced to death two students on a charge of having…

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Indonesian To Stay In Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 9

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An application to the State Full Court for the release of an Indonesian seaman at Long Bay Gaol awaiting deportation…

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Three Charged With Soho Shooting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 1

LONDON, May 20. A.A.P—A youth aged 17 and two young men were charged at Marlborough Street Magistrate's…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 9

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Sidney Parker, 42, labourer, was fined £5 for having used indecent language in Hunter-street, and £2 for drunkenness…

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Singapore Gaol "No Belsen," Says Inspector

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 5

SINGAPORE. Wednesday.—I. L. F. Cronyn, Inspector of Prisons, yesterday denied allegations in the Commons on Monday that…

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Chinese Cleared of Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 9

MELBOURNE—A jury in the Criminal Court last night found Chang Gook Kong (34), Chinese seaman, of the s.s. Fort Abitibi, not guilty of…

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Youth On Murder Charge Refused Bail

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 9

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An 18-year-old youth was charged at the Newtown Police Court to-day with the murder of his brother-in-law…

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Police Raid Sydney Restaurants

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Members of the Vice-Squad under Inspector Boswell raided Carl Thomas's fashionable restaurant, Macquarie-street,…

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Police Probing Woman's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police called to a home in Glover-road, Mosman, this afternoon found Mrs. Ida Olive Firth, 30, mother of four children,…

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