Police Search; Attempted Rape Of Child
The attempted rape of a girl aged seven on Saturday is being investigated by Cessnock and Maitland police…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 67 of 132
Fined £15 For Leaving Police Without Notice
SYDNEY: Pleading guilty to resigning from the Police Force without, enough notice, white-haired Henry Victor Clay said in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Tributes To Mr. J. Ralston
Reference to the death of Mr. John Paul Ralston, veteran journalist, was made at Newcastle Courthouse yesterday…
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Naga Nassar, 44, seaman, who was carried into court, appeared before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court yesterday on a…
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PERTH, Tuesday.—Harold Grayson Bowen, in the Coroner'e Court to-day, was committed for trial on a charge of the wilful murder of his…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Constable On Theft Charge £700 Lost From Fowl Feed Tin
SYDNEY: "It could not have been an ordinary burglar," Carl August Rasmussen said he told…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Senior Police Constable Ernest Starnan Rose pleaded "not guilty" at Central Court to-day to having broken and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m.)
DISCHARGED.—Ivan John Milne, 19, labourer, for whom Mr. H. L. O'Neill appeared, was discharged on a charge of vagrancy…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Allan William Dalton, 33, labourer, of Hawke-street, West Melbourne, was remanded at the Melbourne City…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charged With Rape In Doctor's Surgery
SYDNEY.—John Frederick Neilsen (34), laborer, was committed for trial at Redfern Court today on a charge of having raped Thelma Gertrude…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Blew Safes As War Job: Man Back In Gaol "Herald" Service
LONDON, July 8-John Ramsay, a former gaolbird, who blew safes for Britain in wartime, is back in gaol again…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Supreme Court Post for Judge Clancy
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Chairman of the Crown Employees' Appeals Board (Mr. Justice Clancy) will be appointed by the Executive Council…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cannot Find Man, Children, Court Told
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An application by Valerie Joyce Peterson, of Lorn, West Maitland, for substitute service of divorce petition was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Boys In Strength For Test In Hockey
Police Boys, who are trailing the leaders. Sooth Blue, by one point in Newcastle men's hockey competition will be at full…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Find Five Young Girls Hidden On Ship
MELBOURNE: When wireless patrol police and ships' officers searched a British ship at Port Melbourne today, they discovered…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Calls Evidence Land Deal At £600 Over Valuation
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An officer of Sydney Land Sales Control Office was called before the Royal Commission to-day to explain the reported approval of a sale at £600 above the Valuer-General's valuation…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Constable Charged With Theft Said To Have Been In Hotel At Time
SYDNEY: "When a police constable was alleged to have been seen hurrying from a home from which £700 was reported to have been stolen, I was drinking with him at a Coogee hotel," said a witness in Central Court today…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Richard Mervyn Bryan, 21, labourer, and his brother, Harry Bryan, 25, labourer, were charged at Campsie Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Negro Freed After 21 Years' Gaol
PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday: Twenty-one years ago, Frank Harris, a negro, was imprisoned for killing a white man, William…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mother Collapses When Gaol Term Increased
LONDON, July 9.—Edna May Rees, 33, mother of four children, collapsed in the dock of the Court of Criminal Appeal, when the Lord…
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