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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 132

Police Search For Lost Drover

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY: A police search is being made for a cattle drover, who has been missing since June 13 in rough country between…

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Police Arrest Seven, Seize Opium and Pipes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 10

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In a raid on premises in Campbell-street this afternoon, detectives and Customs officers arrested seven men and took…

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Ride for Nothing by N.T. Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 1

DARWIN, Wednesday.—Three mistakes in printing the first forms distributed in the Northern Territory have…

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Full High Court to Hear Pineapple Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 9

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The High Court of Australia, with the Chief Justice (Sir John Latham) and Justices Dixon, Rich and…

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Officer Praises M.M. Winner at Court-martial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 June 1947 · page 4

A former officer attended in mufti a General Court-martial at Greta Military Camp yesterday to praise a former commando, who faced four…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 6

REMANDED.—Hector Dudley Watkins, 33, printer, was remanded to July 25 on a charge of having obtained a truck, valued at £65, from Lyle Frederick…

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Insanity Plea At Murder Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Counsel for the defence in a murder trial in the Criminal Court to-day said medical evidence would be called to…

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Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Indecent Language

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 4

Raymond O'Shea, 23, ana [?]arold Francis Ansbro, 26, seamen, were each lined £3 or six days' imprisonment for indecent behavior in a lane off Hunter Street…

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Police Say £4000 Fire Deliberare

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thursday.—A fire, believed by police and fire brigade officials to have been deliberately lit, caused about £4000 damage in…

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Insanity Plea At Double Murder Trial; Doctor's Evidence

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE: A plea of insanity was made at the conclusion of evidence in the Sale double murder trial todau. Before Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy and a jury at the Criminal Court…

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Claims Police States Lead To War

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, June 19. A.A.P.—Mr. John Foster Dulles, who was one of the advisers to the Secretary of State (Mr. Marshall) at the…

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Shooting Charge: Man In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 5

MELBOURNE.—Last night's shooting in a confectionery shop in Nicholson Street, Fitzroy, resulted today in a charge of wounding with intent to…

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Nazis Testify in American Court "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, June 19.—One of the strangest sights ever seen in an American Court is the appearance in Boston of a…

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Full Court's Vital Decision on Rule Covering Vacant Dwellings

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 June 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY: A dwelling about to be vacated by one tenant and occupied by another cannot be considered as about to become unoccupied under War Service Moratorium Regulations…

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"Wealthy Australian" Sent To Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 21 June 1947 · page 14

LONDON, Saturday.—Brian David Harmsworth (48), who, police said, posed as a "wealthy Australian" distributing toys to hospitals in order…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1947 · page 7

REMANDED.—Jack Altcheson, 41 traveller, was remanded to July 11 on charges of having driven a car in Everton-street, Hamilton, while he was…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1947 · page 7

Mr. Justice Bonney will preside at the sitting of the Divorce Court to begin in Newcastle on Monday The hearing will begin of the defended…

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Found Insane in Double Murder Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1947 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Friday.—On the grounds of insanity, the jury to-day found James Henry Napper, 23, ex-serviceman, not guilty of double…

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U.S. Troops Sent To Gaol For Robbing Legation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1947 · page 1

TOKYO, June 20.—For having stolen 246,000 yen (£1640 Australian) from the Siamese Legation in Tokyo, in January, three American soldiers…

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Confessor Knows All, Says Murder Hospital Matron

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 June 1947 · page 1

LONDON, June 20. A.A.P.—Madame Marie-Anne Demussy. Matron of the hospital at Macon (France) where 17 women patients are thought…

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