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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 101

Police May Ask For Exhumation Of Guard's Body

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday. — Detectives investigating the death of Robert Condron may seek permission to exhume the body…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 March 1948 · page 8

Edward Winstanley (31), driver, was remanded to Central Court on Mar. 30 on a charge of having at Sydney on Feb. 20 feloniously slain…

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Tool Thief Gets Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 4

Francis McMahon Beagan, 26, labourer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Judge Nield at the Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday…

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Man Charged With Young Woman's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—After the death of a young woman in Crown-street Women's Hospital to-day, a salesman was charged with having…

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Steward to Die for Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 2

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.-Reuter): Found guilty of murdering an actress on the liner Durban Castle, a deck steward, James Camb, 30, was sentenced to Be hanged…

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Maitland Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 8

George Henry Noble (57), miner, was fined £10. in default 20 days' Imprisonment, at the West Maltland Court on a charge of having driven…

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Silent Man In Dock On Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY: Mr. R. V. Edwards, barrister, alleged in Central Court today that detectives had taken the unusual course of charging a man with murder because he had refused under legal advice to answer questions…

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Police Boys' Cycle Club Picnic

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 8

Forty members of the Newcastle Police and Citizens Boys' Cycle Club attended a bicycle-hike and picnic at Belmont…

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Debt Paid In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 10

Patrick George Donnelly. 44, a commission agent, of South-fields Drive, Leicester, pleaded, guilty at Bow St. Court to…

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8 Pickets Arrested by Police in Qld

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE: Car loads of police early today swooped on about 70 pickets near the Mayne…

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Court at Newcastle on Five Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 3

Four charges of breaking, entering and stealing and one of intent to steal were made against Thomas Arthur Milford. 24. laborer, and Leslie…

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Man Beheaded His Mother Court Told

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY: A Redfern man decapitated his mother, put her head in an oven and then told the police that God had told him to do it, the Crown declared in Central Criminal Court today…

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Press Privileges Are Queried In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY: Privileges of the Press in publishing Ministerial reports were argued when a £10,000 libel action came before the State Full Court today. The court reserved judgment on a demurrer by William…

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Court's Ultimatum To C.S.C. Unions

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 8

SYDNEY.—A union ban on overtime at the Commonwealth Steel Company's works, Newcastle, was absolutely wrong…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 4

REMANDS.—Edward Winstanley, 31, driver, was remanded to Sydney on March 30, on £50 bail, on a charge of having feloniously slain…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m.) Indecent Behavior

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 5

Duncan Crawford Kernaghan. 33. seaman, remarked that he was thoroughly ashamed of himself when he was fined £4 or eight days'…

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Man Charged With Melbourne Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE. — John Orlando Barrett, 39, of Regent St., Pitzroy. was charged at the City Watchhouse today with…

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Man Silent On Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Found unconscious and bleeding from head wounds, in Eddy-avenue to-night a man said he had been assaulted,…

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£1000 Bail On Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Harry Turnbull Shoebridge, 39, salesman, charged at the Central Court to-day with the murder of June…

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Boxing Promoter In Court Over Wedding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Alexander Harry Paulsen, 38, Norwegian professional boxing promoter, of Launceston, was…

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