Police Say Woman Lived (And Stole) With "Other" Man
SYDNEY. — A man and a woman, living together,' had embarked on a systematic and extensive course of stealing, police…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 132
Police Had Own Idea How Lad Got £100 From Grannie
MELBOURNE—A 16-year-old boy showed a booking clerk a roll of notes hidden in one of his socks after he had demanded a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shop Assistants Appeal To Full Court On 5-Day Week
SYDNEY: Appealing to the Full Bench of the Industrial Commission today against a judgment made by Mr. Justice Webb in October, 1946, which refused a claim by Newcastle shop assistants for a five-day working week, Mr. E. C. O'Dea (for the union) said that the public could be readily educated to shop during the week, and do…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Children Murdered In U.S. Forest; Boy (16) Held By Police
NEW YORK, Tuesday: Oliver Terpenning, 16, farmboy, is alleged to have confessed to the murder of four children with whom he had gone gathering wildflowers in a forest near Lapeer (Michigan)…
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LONDON, May 28. A.A.P.—Two C.I.D. sergeants, both members of the Flying Squad, Albert Edwin Compton and Harry Gordon Cooper, were…
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Stanley Harrison, 24. laborer, was remanded to June 4 on a charge of stealing one and a half tons of scrap iron, valued at £3, the property of the B.H.P…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.m.) Gaoled for Stealing
Albert Walters, 44. wharf laborer, was charged with stealing a quantity of line, valued at £10. the property of Goold's Pty. Ltd., Hunter Street, Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gaol For Kicking Baby Son
LONDON, Wednesday: A father was sentenced at Lancaster yesterday to 10 years' gaol for assaulting his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Newcastle Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m
INDECENT.—Frederick Charles Sims, 36, storeman, who pleaded "Guilty" to having behaved in an indecent manner in Sparks-lane, Newcastle, on May 27,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Council Wants to Police Fuel Lines
Greater Newcastle Council would police liquid fuel lines from the tanker wharf at Wickham to petrol storage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cook's Hill Expected To Extend Police Boys At Hockey
Police Boys, who are sharing the points lead with South Blues in Newcastle men's first grade hockey competition, will be without the services of P. Porep on Saturday, and are likely to be fully extended by their…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Stepson Put Him Gut, Man Tells Divorce Court
A husband complained today at Newcastle Divorce Court that he was thrown out of his home by his wife's son of a previous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ron Richards In Court Again; Sent To Reserve
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Brought before Mr. Buxton, S.M., in the Police Court to-day on a charge of having been drunk in Caxton-street last…
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MANILA, May 29. A.A.P.—A court here sentenced Julio Guillen, a Manila barber, to death by electrocution for the attempted assassination of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
SENT TO GAOL.—Albert Walters. 44, wharf labourer, was sentenced to six month's imprisonment with hard labour for having on May 28 stolen a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Remanded
On two charges of having a power-pump and a motor tyre, tube and wheel, suspected of being stolen, Harold Maxwell Hayler. 32. carpenter, was remanded to June 20 on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Stole Diamonds From Japan: 10 Years' Gaol
YOKOHAMA, May 29. A.A.P.—A military Court Martial convicted Colonel Edward Murray and sentenced him to 10 years' imprisonment…
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HOBART, Thursday.—In the Police Court to-day Frank Kendall Williams was charged with attempted murder. It was alleged that on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Father Kicked Baby; Sentenced To 10 Years "Herald" Service
LONDON, May 29.—A man who; in the judge's words, "kicked a baby almost to pieces because it interfered with his rest and got on his nerves,"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Increase For Senior Police
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Pay increases retrospective to December 6 last were granted in the Industrial Commission to-day to 104 senior…
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