Police Inquire About Arsenic; Guard's Death
SYDNEY, Friday.—Detectives are endeavouring to ascertain how a bottle, from which a train guard is believed to have taken a drink…
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Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 101
Woman Calls "Liar" Removed from Court
SYDNEY, Friday.—A sheriff's officer at the Supreme Court to-day removed a woman who had called a witness a liar…
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BEGGED ALMS.—Frank Joseph Maloney, 43, labourer, was sentenced to a month's gaol for having begged alms in Hunter-street, Newcastle, on…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.—A young man got away after stealing £62 from the cash box at the Capitol Theatre, Canberra, yesterday…
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LISMORE, Sunday.—Augustus Jones, 37, of Sydney, was charged at Lismore yesterday with the murder of an old-age pensioner, Joseph…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Investigate Boy's Death
Belmont police are investigating the circumstances of the death of a two-year-old boy who was killed instantly when…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Seek Dead Man's Relatives
Newcastle police are seeking relatives of John Nicholson, 61, who was found dead in a hut in Government-rd., Cardiff…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police In Clash With Strikers In Queensland
BRISBANE: Police clashed with more than 400 strikers when they broke through their cordons on a march through Brisbane streets to the Trades Hall this morning. In a battle to get possession…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Union Seeks Court Aid Intervention In Railway Strike
BRISBANE, Sunday.—The Divisional Council of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen to-night decided to ask the Arbitration Court to intervene in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£50 Theft From Car
Mr. T. C. Narbey, of Wirraway Flats, Church-street, Newcastle, reported to the police that electrical equipment, tools and a set of golf…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Sentenced For City Robbery
SYDNEY, Monday.—In the Quarter Sessions to-day, three men who pleaded "Guilty" to a robbery in Sydney on January 19 last, when…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Barmaid Acquitted Of Assault Charge
SYDNEY, Monday.—A barmaid was acquitted to-day of a charge of having assaulted a man after he had said in Central Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Transfers
The following transfers of police in the North-eastern Division have been notified— Detectives C. B. Williams and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.s. General Sent to Gaol
WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Major-General Bennett E. Meyers, former Air Force Procurements Officer, was sentenced today to a minimum of 20 months and a maximum of five years' gaol…
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LISMORE, Monday.—Augustus Jones, 37, labourer, of Rooty Hill, was charged in the Court of Petty Sessions to-day with the murder of…
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HONGKONG, Tues. (A.A.P.).—First Japanese war criminal sentenced to death by an Australian court here was hanged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →French Police Stop Riot
PARIS, March 15. A.A.P.—The police stopped rioting between Communists and de Gaullists in Clermont Ferrand…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Police intercepted a taxi in Camperdown this afternoon, arrested two men and took possession of 2500 petrol…
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SYDNEY. Monday.—Police believe Robert Sylvester Condron, 46, train guard, may have died accidentally from arsenic poisoning at…
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