Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m.) Remanded
Thomas William Smith, 43, a bus inspector, was remanded to April 30 on charges of driving a motor car while under the influence of…
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Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 101
"Why Steal?" Asks Magistrate
LONDON—Miss Jean Margaret Reid, 47-year-old clerk of Church-crescent, Finchley, admitted at Marlborough-st. that…
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SYDNEY: A police constable with 20 years' service who, the Crown said, struck a youth, fracturing his nose, was sentenced in the Quarter Sessions today to nine months' imprisonment…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Equity Court to-day granted an injunction restraining the Federated Enginedrivers and Firemen's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Quiet Mass Meeting Held In Qld. Today: Police Look On
BRISBANE: Today's mass meeting in King George Square, in the centre of Brisbane, passed off peacefully in almost a carnival atmosphere. It had been feared that there might be violence there, but both…
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BEGGED IN STREET.—Edward Sidney Fear, 48, labourer, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment for having begged alms in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Divorce Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. Justice Bonney) MERCER v MERCER
Moved to action ny an anonymous telephone call received while at work, a petitioner had returned home, forced entry through a window and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m.) Manslaughter Charge
Keith Rowland Potter, 22, carpenter, was charged with feloniously slaying Donald Duncan at Gresford on Feb. 28…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brutal Sydney Assault
SYDNEY: With his face so badly bruised that detectives at first mistook him for a negro, a British ship's steward is in Sydney Hospital unable to talk or see. Victim of one of the most…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Gustave Einsaar, 42, police constable, of Regent-street station, was to-day sentenced to nine months' gaol on…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Theodore Edgar Jones, 47, clerk, pleaded "Not guilty" at Manly Court to-day to charges of offensive…
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MELBOURNE: Police climbed on to a moving truck to tear placards from the hands of University students and Eureka…
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LONDON.—Thieves at Peel House, the Metropolitan Police training centre, have been giving recruits an early insight…
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REMANDS.—Keith Rowland Potter, 22, carpenter, was remanded to East Gresford Court on May 12 on charges that at Gresford on February 28 he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft From Bookmaker; Youth Charged
SYDNEY, Sunday. — At Wentworth Park dog meeting last night a bookmaker's clerk recognised a youth who had allegedly stolen…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — Police searched the Bondi-Waverley district to-night for a man whom they wish to question in connection with…
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SYDNEY: Lloyd Fleming, 39, farm laborer, a former patient of Parramatta Mental Hospital, who burned down the West Wyalong Golf Club House on Jan. 3, incinerating Hugh McKnight, 73, caretaker, was found not guilty of murder by the Central Criminal Court today on the ground of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Criticises Identification
LONDON. — Magistrate Mr Geoffrey O. Raphael at Marl-borough-st. Court, criticised a police identification parade and…
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After the first day's play on Saturday in the City and Suburban cricket A grade final, Police Boys are in a strong…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Police Take Names After Domain Rally
SYDNEY, Sunday. — Plainclothes detectives took the names of two men who spoke at a communist demonstration in the…
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