Newcastle Court Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m
VAGRANCY.—Alexander Mulvena, 59, no occupation, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having no lawful means of support…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Assault Victim Is Paralysed
SYDNEY.—Kenneth Ford, 21, charged with unlawfully assaulting Richard Johnson and occasioning him actual bodily…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£111 Theft From Goods Shed
Newcastle police were advised yesterday that goods valued at £111/10/ had been stolen from the goods shed, at Cockle Creek…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— The Local Government legislation providing for compulsory voting at Local Government elections will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Confiscate Printing Press
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Detectives to-night raided a shed behind a house in Haberfield, where they arrested a man and confiscated a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m
REMANDED.— Gordon Malcolm Thompson. 35, shipwright, was remanded till March 24 on a charge of having wilfully exposed himself…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Divorce Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. Justice Bonney) OWEN v OWEN
The part-heard case in which Eric Owen of James St., Hamilton, sought a divorce from Jessie Florence Owen of Parkway Av., Hamilton, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m.) Pastrycook Fined
Stanley Cotton, a pastrycook, of Bishopgate St., Wickham, was fined £10 and 8s costs, or 21 days' Imprisonment, for falling to keep clean…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder Warning For Mr. Churchill
LONDON, March 11. A.A.P.—An anoymous telephone caller last night told Southampton police "Mr. Churchill will be murdered at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Say Petrol Racket Is Smashed
SYDNEY: State and Federal detectives believe they have smashed the Australia-wide blackmarket petrol ticket racket. Six months ago forged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m
REMANDED.—Andrew Nelson Costello, 32, labourer, was remanded to March 19 on a charge of having wilfully exposed himself near…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. E. J. Gibson, S.m.) Fight at Hamilton
In a fight at a house in Denison-st., Hamilton, Frank Cavanagh Peters, 37, railway employee, was badly knocked about, the court was told…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pensioner's Assault Charge Dismissed
SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Oranm, C.S.M., in Central Court to-day dismissed an assault charge brought by Charles Frederick Morton, 56,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cool Theft Of Motor Lorry
SYDNEY: A £550 lorry laden with merchandise worth £1650 was stolen in broad daylight yesterday during the temporary absence of the driver. The lorry, the property of Steel and Humphrey Pty. Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Announcer 'Not Guilty' of Assault Charge
SYDNEY, Friday.—Geoffrey Donald Lowe, 28, radio announcer, was found not guilty in Balmain Quarter Sessions to-day of assault,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five Years' Gaol On Nine Charges
SYDNEY, Friday.—On four charges of receiving stolen cars, three of false pretences and two of armed robbery, Raymond James…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Charged at the City Court to-day with the murder of Isobel Davis at her home, Labassa-grove, Caulfield,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Read Picketing Law
The Queensland Government's anti-picketing law is now in force, but some strikers have defied the law. Police are seen reading the new Act to pickets at the tramway sheds, Milton. Pickets were then shifted away…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Interrupt Manly Meeting
SYDNEY: Before more than 500 onlookers on The Corso. Manly, today, police interrupted a political meeting, pulled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Arrest 62 in Night Raid
A squad of police, under Sergeant Fordham, raided premises in Hunter-street West late last night and arrested 62 men…
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