African Police Fire On Natives
NAIROBI, Feb. 11. A.A.P.—African police opened fire yesterday, killing 11 and wounding 20 natives when 1000 religious…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 101
Police Seize Club's U.S. Cigarettes
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Customs officers to-night made a surprise raid on the Roosevelt Club. King's Cross, and seized about 200…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Queensland Strike Some Railwaymen Favour Court
BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The first move to end the deadlock in the railway strike came from a mass meeting of railwaymen at Rockhampton to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cosgrove Trial Judge Warns On Court Photos
HOBART: A warning that he would regard the publication of any pictures depicting the Court scene as contempt of Court was given by the Chief Justice (Sir John Morris) at the Cosgrove trial today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
LICENCE REVOKED.—For having broken the condition of his release entered into on December 17, by being convicted of vagrancy at Newcastle…
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SYDNEY.—Errol Brough Proctor, 28, bricklayer, and Norman James Foster, 28, laborer, convicted of having…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.âThe Acting City Coroner (Mr. R. M. Stewart. S.M.) to-day discharged Walter George Watson, 64, who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This "Easy Money Road" Led To Gaol
SYDNEY.—A medical book that Patrick Steen. 23, laborer, read in the Mitchell Library, showed him the road to "easy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Raid Garages; Seize Coupons
SYDNEY, Thursday.— Detectives investigating reports that large numbers of forged petrol ration coupons have been returned to the…
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West Maitland police and civilians are continuing the search of the Hunter River near the Belmore Bridge, West…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Pickets appointed to-day by Ipswich Railway Disputes Committee found 17 police stationed on and near the…
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SYDNEY.—Alleged to have been concerned in a hold-up in a betting shop, Francis Albert Scraggs, 27. boilermaker. told…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
FALSE PRETENCES.—On each of two charges of false pretences, Charles Alfred Jerrett. 37. sawmiller, was fined £10. He was ordered to…
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SYDNEY: Reginald James Kitching, 27, baker, was charged in Central Court today with having murdered his wife, Edith May Kitching, 26, at Lilyfield last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Arrest Tokyo Bank Murder Suspect
TOKYO, Feb. 13.—The Japanese police believe that they have caught the bank robber who murdered, by poisoning, 12 employees…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Police recovered more than 50 hand grenades from children in schools in Leichhardt-Balmain areas to-day…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Domestic discord had been responsible for the criminal record of Crofton Edward Barnes, 28, who…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
MECHANIC CHARGED. — Ernest Steward, 33, motor mechanic, charged, with having driven a car while under the influence of liquor, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Brief Thousand Ammunition Souvenirs Handed To Police U.S. Marine Held By Chinese Reds "Died Of Wounds"
More than 1000 ammunition souvenirs were handed to police or military authorities December. "This indicates the amount of dangerous souvenirs' still held by the public,"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Husband Charged With Murder
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Reginald James Kitching, 27, baker, was charged in Central Court yesterday with, having murdered his wife…
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