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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 132

Gaol Sentence for Giving Information

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 3

MADRID, January 14. A.A.P.—A military court has sentenced Eduardo Gamito Garcia, charged with having distributed communiques and…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 10

REMAND.—Christopher John McIntyre. 28, labourer, was remanded until January 21, on a charge of having stolen £5, the property of Leonard…

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Mother Faces Two Charges Of Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY: When an inquest into the death of Graham Wright (4) and Ian Wright (4 months) opened at Burwood Coroner's Court today, Mrs. Jean Ethel Wright (31), of Shortland Avenue, Strathfield, who has been charged with…

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Application For Bail In Brisbane Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 3

BRISBANE: When an application for bail was made on behalf of Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown in the Supreme Court this morning, neither…

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Lewis Appeals to Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Tuesday: The United States Supreme Court today heard argument on the appeal by John L…

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Police Raids in India on Communists

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 3

BOMBAY. January 14. A.A.P.—Police simultaneously raided offices and houses of Communist organisations and leaders at Bombay and…

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Heavy Police Court List at Belmont

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 2

Taking up three foolscap pages, nearly 80 cases were listed for hearing at Belmont Police Court yesterday. It was noon before Mr. H. L…

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Three Youths on Burglary Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Wednesday. — Three Newcastle youths were charged to-day with breaking, entering and stealing…

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Gaol Controller to Go Abroad

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Deputy Controller-General of Prisons (Mr. Nott) will leave this month for the United States and Great…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 5

SENTENCE SUSPENDED.—A sentence of two months' imprisonment, imposed on Garnett Douglas Cox, 38, airman, was suspended on his entering into a…

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Murderer Garvie May Do Sentence In Maitlaud Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY: Convicted murderer, Mervyn Garvie, whose death sentence was yesterday commuted to life imprisonment will probably…

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To Be Tried For Murder Of Children

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY: The Burwood Coroner (Mr. Wright) today committed Mrs. G. Ethel Wright (31), of Shortland Street,…

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Police Drive Against Show Crooks

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY: Police had launched a drive against criminals who congregated at country shows and racecourses, said Det. Sgt. Lynch in…

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22-Year-Old Murder Case, 8 for Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 1

ROME, Jan. 15. A.A.P.—It is officially stated that a special court will begin, the trial on January 22 of eight Italians charged with…

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Charged With Murder Of His Wife

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY: Arthur Redvers Hayne, 47, telegraphist, of 30 Carlton Crescent, Summer Hill, who has been charged with the murder of his wife, Louise Elizabeth Hayne, 38, was in court when the inquest opened at Burwood today…

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Soldier Sent to Gaol; Assaulted Woman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 12

Ronald Lewis Bridge, 25, soldier, was ordered six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., in the Newcastle…

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Garvie May Go to Maitland Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.— Mervyn Garvie, convicted murderer, whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by State Cabinet, will…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 7

REMANDED FOR SENTENCE.—Frederick Kitchen, 42, cook, was charged with having, at Newcastle, on Tuesday, stolen a wedding ring and a dress…

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Fined £5 for Theft of Two Rings

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 2

Frederick Kitchen, 24, cook, who pleaded guilty at Newcastle Police Court yesterday to stealing two rings, valued at £5, and was remanded to…

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Three For Trial On Charges Of Theft From Houses

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 6

How he had arrested a man at the scene of an alleged house robbery was described at Newcastle Police Court today by a…

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