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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 58 of 132

2Lm Charged with Failure to Reinstate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Richmond River Broadcasters Pty. Ltd., proprietor tor of 2LM Lismore, was charged in the Special Federal Court to-day…

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Prisoner Bled To Death In Maitland Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 2

John McCarthy, 32, labourer, of Paxton, was found dead in his cell at Maitland Gaol yesterday. An artery in the right groin had…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.m.) Suspected Thief Gaoled

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 13

When intercepted by ponce alter entering some parked motor cars in Maitland Road, Hamilton, last night, Bruce Augustine Irwin, 24, laborer, said he was pretty…

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Man Charged With Rape Of Woman In Waiting Room

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

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A 34-year-old man was arrested at a house in Waterloo, and charged at Redfern Police Station, with having…

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Police Drop Inquiries on Cave Bones

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY—Charred bones found in a cave at Grevillia, near Kyogle on May 15, belonged to several aborigines, it was revealed…

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High Court Writ Against Award Of Mine Tribunal

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 June 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY.—Allegations that a northern coal mining tribunal had determined a case to the denial of natural justice were…

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Man Charged With Impersonating Police Constable

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 7

Hearing of a charge against a man of having assumed the designation of police constable, while he was not a member of the police force, was…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 7

REMANDED.-William George Jamieson, 62, cleaner, was remanded to July 14, on £20 bail, on a charge of knowingly having had in a house in…

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Police Sergeant Farewelled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 6

Sergeant W. G. Wallace, Police Prosecutor at Newcastle, who has been transferred to Scone, was farewelled yesterday at Newcastle…

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Assaulted Police; Man Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 4

Fines totalling £20 were imposed by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court yesterday, on Donald Arthur Cole, 23, labourer, for…

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Man Found Dead, Police Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Shortly after he had eaten his midday meal yesterday. Ernest Ambrose Smith, 48, was found dead in his room in…

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Police Search For Missing Women

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Police are searching for two women, each of whom' is over 70. Mary Turner, 70, wearing a…

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Police Say Cave Bones Were Aboriginal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Human bones found in a cave near Kyogle, on May 10, have been identified as old aboriginal bones from several different…

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Mental Patient Found Riding Cycle After Intense Police Search

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 14 June 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE: After an intense police search of dense scrub and timber in South Gippsland for a mental patient who vanished two months ago, he was found riding a bicycle at Cowarra, near Traralgon, early today…

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Man Charged With Attempted Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 June 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Leslie James Holman, 34, labourer, was charged with attempted murder, after a shot was fired at his home at…

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Wholesale Murder in Hospital

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 June 1947 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday: Disclosure of wholesale murders in Macon Hospital, in Eastern France, caused a…

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Police Booed During Two-Up Raid

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 June 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A large crowd watching a football match booed police when they raided a two-up school at Tempe reserve this…

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Greek Communist Sentenced to Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 June 1947 · page 4

ATHENS, June 16. A.A.P.—A court martial in Salonika sentenced to death Pandlis Gouissides, General Secretary of the Macedonian…

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Boy's Death, Man Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 June 1947 · page 4

BRISBANE, Monday.—A man was arrested at Roma to-night and charged with the wilful murder of Brian Vincent Olive, 12, whose body…

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Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. S.m.) Offensive Behavior

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 June 1947 · page 10

John W. Liddle, 39. laborer, created a disturbance outside the Civic Theatre on Friday night. He had been ejected for being noisy and tried to force his way…

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