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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 68 of 132

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 July 1947 · page 6

REMANDS.—George Ingram, 37, man ager was remanded to August 22 on charges of having driven a car in Hunter-street while he was under the in…

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U.S. Stirred By Story Of Theft From Atom Plants

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 July 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Wednesday: A highly sensational story from the "New York Sun" that secret files have been stolen from atomic energy plants at Oak Ridge (Tennessee) has stirred America. The Chairman of the Joint…

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Inquiry Ordered On Charge Against Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 July 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Allegations by Canon T. C Hammond that a woman who ran away from the Convent of the Good Shepherd,…

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Eden Fishermen By-pass Police Road Blockade

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 July 1947 · page 15

SYDNEY.—Eden fishermen, in defiance of a Government edict, ordering them to send fish to Nimmitabel Freezing Works, are…

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Newcastle Court (Before Mr. O. H. BlacKmore, S.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 July 1947 · page 15

"You're always saying you're sick and I'll put you in hospital," a woman who was charged with assault, was alleged to have told her landlady before assaulting…

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Constable Charged with Assault on Elderly Man

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 3

TUMUT: Before a packed court, a police constable told today of a scuffle between another policeman and an elderly man at Batlow Police Station on June 4. This evidence was given by Senior…

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Theft of Atomic Secrets Denied

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, July 10. A.A.P.—The security Officer for the Atomic Commission at Oak Ridge (Tennessee). Mr. B. M. Mencke, said he…

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Constable For Trial; £700 Theft Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Senior Constable Ernest Lambert Sparnan Rose. 52, was committed for trial at Central Court to-day on a charge of…

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Wharfmen to Stop Because Mate Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 1

CHRISTCHURCH (N.Z.), Thursday.—Because a waterside worker is to appear at Christchurch Magistrate's Court next Monday on a…

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Brutal Trunk Murder in U.s

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO. Thursday: Californian police are hunting for Moreley King, a restaurant owner, whom they want to question over the brutal…

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Shot Dead as Police Arrived

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—As police arrived at a house in Dulwich Hill to-night they heard a shot and found Charlton Bertram Redding, 30, dead…

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Report Clears Police in Convent Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Police action to return a middle-aged woman to the Home of the Good Shephered, Ashfield, was justified, a report to…

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Blamed Woman For Shooting, Police Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 8

BRISBANE, Thursday.—A man charged in the Police Court to-day with the murder of Elinor Edith Bowden, 25, and the attempted…

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Painters And Dockers' Dispute For Court

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY: A dispute over picking up of painters and dockers at Newcastle has been reported to the Arbitration Court by the General…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 6

REMANDS.—Thomas Parkinson Russell, 27, labourer, was remanded to Wednesday, on £50 bail, on a charge of having broken into the shop of…

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Court to Move in Steel Dispute "Stop Dislocation"; Appeal To Parties

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 July 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Full Bench of the State Industrial Commission will call a conference early next week of representatives of the companies and unions involved in the steel industry dispute in Newcastle and…

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Barefooted Man Charged On Two Counts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.—Half-an-hour after a man was disturbed in a house in Woodside-avenue, Burwood, to-night police arrested a barefooted…

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Police Recruits Attracted By Food Parcels

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 July 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE.—One result of 2000 food parcels having been sent to British police by Victorian policemen is that already 70…

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Police Question Friends Of Murdered Actress "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, July 11.—Two close friends of the murdered actress, Sheila Mannering, were released to-day after long questioning but are…

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East Maitland Court (Before Mr. G. L. Berry, P.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1947 · page 7

LANGUAGE CHARGE,—For having used indecent language in Lawes-streer, East Maitland, on May 31, Stanley William Oldham, of Beresfield wag lined…

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