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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 57 of 132

Police Court Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 6

REMANDED.—William John Jones. 49, storeman, was remanded to July 7 on £10 bail on a charge of having been in the bar of the Rawson Hotel on…

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Released, Sent to Gaol Again

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Robert Patrick Eady, 60, labourer, was sentenced at Central Court to-day to six months' imprisonment for having stolen a…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore. S.m.) Fined for Speeding

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 2

A motorist charged with speeding on the Pacific Highway at Adamstown on April 8 was fined £5 with 5s 6d costs. He is Alan Willard. a baker, of Tamworth…

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Kidnapped Police Freed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 1

JERUSALEM, June 10. A.A.P.—Two British policemen, who were kidnapped from a swimming pool at the Jewish…

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Belmont Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 2

A man who served in the R.A.A.P. for two and a half years and was now receiving shock treatment appeared before Mr. G. L. Berry at Belmont Court today…

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Jews Showed Police Noose

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Tuesday: The two British policemen who were kidnapped by Jewish terrorists near Tel Aviv on Monday were threatened with hanging if Jews on trial in Jerusalem were sentenced to death. The policemen told this story after…

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Dope Ring Theory in N.Z. Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 3

AUCKLAND: In their hunt for the murderer of Mrs. Gladys Ruth Rusden, police are investigating a…

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Police Say Man Was Masked

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 4

Victor Ernest Cook, 20, laoburer was remanded to June 17 when charged in the Newcastle Police Court yesterday that he had been at…

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"Pulled Nose," Union Men in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A reference to communist-controlled unions gave rise to argument in Court to-day, when a union representative was…

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Car Thieves Fought Police And Escaped "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 1

LONDON, June 10.—"C.I.D. man kidnapped—bandits in dark saloon car believed number JBH-109"—was a Scotland Yard S.O.S. flashed to police…

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Ex-Soldier Who Offered Eye in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 7

GRAFTON, Tuesday.—Gerald Patrick Good, who recently offered to sell one of his eyes in exchange for help and sustenance for his…

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Ex-soldier Tells Court: "Proposed To Newly Married Girl, Then Changed Mind'

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 June 1947 · page 2

Giving evidence in the Newcastle District Court k the Harman-Fren breach of promise case, the defendant Basil Glen Harman, admitted that he had proposed marriage to Mrs. Fren on one occasion after her wedding, by…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 10

BEGGED ALMS.—Patrick O'Brien, 52 was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for having begged aims in Hunter-street, Newcastle, on June 5. The…

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New Note Soon In Police Warnings

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY.—Cars and motor cycles attached to the Police Safety Bureau are to be fitted with sirens similar to those in use in other parts of…

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Refer Storemen's Dispute To Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Metal Trades Employers' Association will refer to the Arbitration Court to-morrow a dispute involving 25…

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Soldier Tells Court He Was Viciously Assaulted In Camp

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 June 1947 · page 2

While he was in bed at Greta Camp on May 19, he was the victim of a vicious, savage and unprovoked attack by another soldier, a serviceman told a Court Martial today at Greta Camp…

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Police Mention Blackmarket In Theft Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Police alleged today at Newtown Court that goods valued at £680 were stolen from the Australian Woollen Mills and…

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Ex-policeman Charged with Impersonation

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 2

A man who visited his apartment in Station Street, Waratah said he was a police constable looking for vacant rooms, but he returned as a rent collector, Donald James Costello, laborer, now living at Mayfield East, said in the…

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Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 7

OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Ronald Arthur Little, 19, and William Martinez, 32, of the crew of the Stanley Park, were each fined 10/, or the rising of…

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Posed As Surgeon; Sent to Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.—Raymond Erie Sheppard, 22. former warder at Goodna Mental Hospital, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment…

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