Action To Ban Film Showing Gaol-Breaker "Herald" Service
LONDON, June 16.—Cinema exhibitors are being asked to boycott a film in which a real-life gaol-breaker. Stanley…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 59 of 132
Court Move To Declare Rich Hermit Dead
SYDNEY: Application will be made shortly to the Probate Court to declare dead the wealthy hermit, 88-year-old Robert…
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Earl William Sheridan was charged at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Berry, S.M., with causing malicious damage to a…
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INSULTING WORDS.—Charged before Mr. R. J. Howard. J.P., at the West Maitland Court yesterday with having, at West Maitland on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Alleges Police Assault After Party
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man charged at Central Police Court today with having been found drunk in Martin-place, at 1.30 a.m. on June 11,…
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DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when Albert North Preston, 23, and Arthur Edmondson Preston, 37, hotel managers, were charged…
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SYDNEY: Thomas William Smith (25), Joseph Peter Kenny (35) and Reginald Leslie Kenneth (42), were committed for trial by Mr. Denton,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M. ) Indecent Language
Francis Arthur Rogers (19), fireman, and Martin Laurison (25), quartermaster, were each fined £3 or six days' Imprisonment for using indecent language in Scott Street…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fit Of Jealousy Earned Him 3 Years' Gaol
SYDNEY.—"You were jealous, you had had drink, und you were probably brooding over your grievances," said Judge Marke[?]…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Constable Mahnken and a party of 14 men returned to Queenscliff tonight after searching Maud Island…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Got Daughter to Steal, Court Told
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A 10-year-old child had been encouraged by her mother to take articles from shop counters it was alleged to-day at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Says Birth Control Makes Marriage Criminal
NEW YORK, Tuesday: Referee John F. Carew in a Divorce Court ruling today found that a marriage in which a wife persists on practising birth control is a criminal partnership. He cited a 222-year-old British…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Federal Rights to Wheat Crop Debated in Court
SYDNEY [?] the High Court today, evidence was concluded in a test case concerning the rights of Australian wheat grower to claims against the Federal Government for the compulsory acquisition of their wheat harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£3000 Theft Of Ammunition At Darwin
DARWIN.—More than £3000 worth of rifle and pistol ammunition has been stolen in Darwin in the past few weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
REMANDED.—George Ingram, 37, manager, was remanded to July 9 on charges of having driven a car in Hunter-street, Newcastle on May 27, while…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Three wharf labourers stated to have been arrested at revolver point after valuable furs had been stolen from a…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Women Scared In Murder Hospital
PARIS, June 18. A.A.P.—Nerves are ragged and eyes frightened in the women's hospital at Macon, wh[?] detectives have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Case Stood Over
The part-heard charge against Hector Dudley Watkins, 33, printer, that he falsely pretended to Frederick Fennell, of Morisset, that he had a contract to build…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Shoot at Strikers
PATNA, June 18. A.A.P.—Five persons were killed and 23 others injured when police opened fire against strikers at Murulidih…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No New Trial For Boys In Gaol For Rape
SYDNEY: After hearing fresh evidence, the Court of Criminal Appeal today unanimously dismissed appeals by seven boys, six of whom were sentenced to life imprisonment, and one to death for raping a woman at Auburn…
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