Newcastle Court Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m
REMANDS.—John Joseph Peterson, 34, labourer, was remanded to April 6 on a charge of offensive behaviour and two charges concerning a child…
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Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 101
Police Claim Daring Theft "Cleared Up"
SYDNEY: With the discover of more than £2000 worth of machinery dumped in the bush near Fuller's Bridge, Roseville, today, detectives have now recovered all the proceeds of a daring £5000 robbery…
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Despite a fine bowling effort by G. Godfrey, a West Wallsend policeman, Police Boys' Club won its first City and Suburban A grade…
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ADELAIDE: A summons has been issued by the Federal Arbitration Court against the Builders Laborers' Federation. This follows the refusal by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Holiday Accidents: Police Drive Is Successful
Strict police supervision of road traffic is believed to be responsible for Newcastle's excellent holiday accident record yesterday. Despite comparatively heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Boys' "Double" In C. and S. Cricket
By defeating West Wallsend by 82 runs on the first innings in the final of the C. and S. A grade cricket competition…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Man of 95 in Court on Stretcher
LONDON — A 95-year-old man, William Constable, of Worth, Sussex, was carried into East Grinstead magistrates…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →£1100 Theft From Night Club
SYDNEY: Jemmying open the back of a safe at the Roosevelt Restaurant, at King's Cross last night, thieves stole £1100…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Goulburn police have arrested two men in connection with the theft of £400 worth of tobacco and cigarettes…
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SYDNEY: A girl who told Central Court today she planned marrying a man in Long Bay Gaol was sentenced to the same prison for two months. Arrested at Central Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →25 Years' Gaol For Jap Camp Chief
TOKYO, March 28.—Ryohec Tanaka, Camp Commandant for varying periods of Tokyo Area Prisoner of War Camps 11D and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →3 Convicts Break Gaol in S.A.
ADELAIDE, Sunday.—These long-term prisoners, who had been held on serious charges, escaped from Adelaide Gaol this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Go High On Traffic Check
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police used a plane during the holidays to observe road traffic. It was the first time traffic had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Inundated With Reports On Rowe
BRISBANE: Police have been inundated with reports that Edward J. Rowe, Communist Federal Councillor of the A.E.U., has been seen in several places round Brisbane and country districts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Were Wrong To Finger-print Boy
LONDON.—A 13year-old boy, charged at Liverpool Juv-enile Court with stealing sa fountain pen from another boy, was said by a solicitor to have been cross-examined very thoroughly and then'had his finger-prints taken…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Masaryle's Death Was Murder, Says U.S. Woman "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, March 28.—An American woman, who returned to New York yesterday, after six months in Czechoslovakia, said that…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—Police have begun a State-wide search for the three prisoners who escaped from Adelaide Gaol yesterday by…
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TAMWORTH, Monday.—Bernard Harcourt Collins, 34, of Dewhurst-street, Werris Creek, has been arrested and charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jack Haines On Assault Charge
SYDNEY.—Jack Haines (40), former middleweight boxing champion of Australia, was charged in Paddington Court…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Hazel Joyce Gavin, 21, was to-day sentenced to imprisonment in Long Bay for two months after she had…
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