Police Save Seven From Fire
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Police rescued four adults and three children from a blazing house at Moonee Ponds. The house caught a light from…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 132
Son Hit Father At Police Station
SYDNEY: Wallace Ronald Farthing ,(21). laborer, at Paddlngton Court, today was sentenced to one month's gaol for having assaulted his…
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MUNICH, Jan. 21. A.A.P.—Richard Strauss, the famous composer of the opera "Der Rosenkavalier," who is now an Austrian…
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At Newcastle Police Court today a sentence of nine months gaol was imposed on Christopher John McIntyre, 28. laborer, on a charge of…
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ROME, Jan. 22. A.A.P. —The trial has begun of four former henchmen of Mussolini for the murder in 1924 of the Italian socialist martyr,…
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Donald Laurence McDonald, 51 chemist, pleaded guilty before Mr. J Byrne. S.M., at Newcastle Police Court today to stealing a microscope…
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SEAMAN ASSAULTED.—John Barrie, 21, seaman, and Andrew Bourke, 24 seaman, were each fined £10 for having unlawfully assaulted two coloured seaman…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—After a complaint by two buyers, two onion sellers were questioned by police and a prices official. The men were…
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SYDNEY.—Police and demonstrators clashed in angry scenes outside the Prices Commissioner's office in Pitt Street today…
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Declaring at Newcastle Police Court today that he had sung in grand opera and on National and B class wireless stations. Walter Allan…
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Complaints that his wife hadstarved him, reduced the children to physical wrecks, called him "a big fat pig" and broken…
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ASSAULT.—Robert Francis Banks, of Millfield-street. Spion Kop. Pelaw Main, proceeded against Neville Smith, of Hampden-street. Kurri Kurri, on a…
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SIX MONTHS' GAOL.—A sentence of six months was imposed on Thomas McMahon, 26, pensioner, when he appeared before Mr. H. L Sargeson, P.M.,…
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REMAND.—Matilda Johnson. 61, domestic duties, was remanded until February 18 on a charge of having pretended to tell fortunes at Newcastle on…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Charged with having stolen £1314/0/1 from the Australian Workers' Union between January, 1941, and…
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When Patrick Monaghan, 28, laborer, became intoxicated yesterday, he approached a military provost truck in Scott Street, removed the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Demonstrators outside the Price Commissioner's office in Pitt-street to-day were moved on by police…
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GEELONG, Thursday.âAn eight-months-old baby, weighing only 4lb, had died from malnutrition and neglect, a doctor said to-day at the…
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Of three divorce cases heard before Mr. Acting Justice Nield in the Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday, two were defended. In the…
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SYDNEY: Alleged to have stabbed her husband's shoulder three inches deep with a boot knife early this morning, Grace…
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