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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

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

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

REMANDED.—Neville Clifford Lawson, 22, labourer, was remanded to April 1, on £60 bail, on charges of having stolen, at Newcastle, on…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m.) Slept in Rail Carriage

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1948 · page 4

On a charge of being found in the railway marshalling yards at Broad-meadow, in which were trucks containing goods, the property of the…

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Dutch Official Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Netherlands East Indies official, Nijos Cornelius van Riemadijck Kool, was alleged at Central Court…

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£870 Theft From Shop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A small safe containing £70 and dress and curtain materials worth £800 were stolen from Haslams Pty. Ltd. in…

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Australian Seaman Sentenced In U.S.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, March 24. A.A.P.—At Alameda County Superior Court, John Wallace Sutherland, 26, seaman, of Sydney,…

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Gaol Term For Union Official: Contempt

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE: The Industrial Court today ordered the imprisonment of Edward Joseph Rowe, Federal Councillor of the Amalgamated…

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Police Investigate Woman's Death

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Detectives are investigating the sudden death last night of Mrs. Isobel Therese Latham, 31, of Narrabri, in…

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New Supreme Court Judge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The appointment of Mr. F. A. Dwyer, K.C., as a Supreme Court Judge, was announced by the…

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Police Consult Coroner On Exhuming Order

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3

TEMORA, Wednesday.—Criminal Investigation Branch detectives to-day told the Coroner (Mr. Wellingham) that a certificate of…

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Union Officer On Contempt of Court Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Mr. R. E. J. Rowe, a Federal councillor of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, will be charged in the…

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Court Against Shorter Week For Night Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Federal Arbitration Court to-day dismissed the application by the Printing Industry Employees'…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 6

REMANDS.—George Anderson, 25, labourer, was remanded to April 1 on a charge of having had in his possession, at Newcastle on March…

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Belmont Court (Before Mr. W. C. Avery, S.m.) Miner Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3

Pleading not guilty to charges ol indecent language and assaulting Constable Kirkup at Dudley on Feb. 20. Cecil Frank Davies (51), miner,…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3

Charged with stealing a motor cycle valued at £230. Ernest William Tolhurst 25, miner, was remanded to April 8 on bail of £60…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m.) Slept in Rail Carriage

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 10

Hugh Parker, 37, blacksmith, was fined £3 or six days' Imprisonment for trespassing on railway property. Parker was found, with a bottle…

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£150 Tobacco Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1948 · page 2

ARMIDALE, Thursday—Tobacco and cigarettes valued at £150 were stolen from the store of T. Lambert Ltd., in Rusden-street,…

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Woman Charged Over Divorce

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.— Judith Farrell, 23, mannequin, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of forgery in a divorce affidavit,…

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Charged with Tram Ticket Forgery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.— Avery Glazebrook Eslick, 34, motor assembler, who was committed for trial at Burwood Court to-day on…

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Organiser Of R.S.L. Art Union Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1948 · page 6

Hezekiah James Hadwell, 49, clerk, appeared before Mr. C. Avery. S.M., in Belmont Court' yesterday to answer a charge that…

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Man Shot, Wife On Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 March 1948 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Peggy Frances White, 31, charged in the City Court to-day with having murdered her husband, John…

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