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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

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In Brief Mass Abductions Of Children Nazi Nurses Get 5 Years' Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 4

Newspapers in Salonika (Greece) say that rebels have abducted 1665 children from 20 villages in western Macedonia and 67 from western Thrace…

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Union Advocate Clashes With Court President

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday.—The representative of the Carpenters' Union and other organisations affiliated with the Trades and Labour…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 5

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Samuel Jones. 1. labourer was fined £5 for indecent language in Hannell-street, Wickham…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 7

Objection by a customer to paying 6s for a meal caused a disturbance at "Jerry's Cafe," Scott-st., on the evening of March 12, the Court was…

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Murder In The Yemen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 2

The entry of Emir Ahmed into Sana, capital of Yemen, ends a comedy-tragedy which for about a month has placed in doubt the…

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Police Seize £800 in Gold

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE. — Detectives who raided a house at Essendon yesterday seized more than £800 worth of gold…

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Police Seize Rice in Chinese Shop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police raided a shop at Petersham to-night, and seized a ton and a half of bagged rice, and arrested two…

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Japs To Die For Murder Of U.S. Airmen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 3

TOKYO, March 16.—The Eighth Army Commission in Yokohama sentenced to death 41 Japanese for the murder of three American…

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Court Advised Of Dock Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Metal Trades Employers' Association referred the Cockatoo Dockyard dispute to-day to the Federal…

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Divorce Court at Newcastle Eason v EASON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 3

A decree nisi was granted when John George Eason, of Dungowan Hotel, Dungowan, petitioned for divorce from Ivy Eazon, of St…

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Q'land Strike Court Refuses To Grant Order

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 2

BRISBANE.—The State Indnstrial Court, in a reserved judgment today, declined to grant a general order…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 6

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Albert Rogers, 54, seaman, was fined £2 for having used indecent language in Watt-street, Newcastle…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.M. Embezzlement Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 2

Charged with converting to his own use £246 is collected in connection with the Belmont Returned Soldiers' League lottery, Hezckiah…

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Poles Sentenced To Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 1

WARSAW, March 17. A.A.P.—A military court sentenced to death three leading members of the Polish underground organisation…

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Gaoled For Life For Wife Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 4

BUNDABERG, Wednesday.—A father of eight children was to-day, sentenced to life imprisonment in Bundaberg Circuit Court for the…

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Police Clash with Marchers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Mr. F. Paterson, Communist M.L.A., was severely injured to-day during a clash between police and demonstrators near Brisbane Trades Hall…

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Police Warning To Young Girls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 2

Newcastle police yesterday urged parents to warn their children, particularly young girls, against speaking to strange men, accepting money…

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Police Chief Left £13,893

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 8

SYDNEY.—Police Commissioner MacKay, 62, who died eight weeks ago, left an estate worth £13,893…

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Court's Promise Protection For Men

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 10

BRISBANE: The President of the Industrial Court today promised court protection to about…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 5

REMAND.—Hezekiah James Hadwell, 49, clerk, was remanded to Belmont Court on March 25 on a charge of having, between March 28 and…

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