Man Acquitted of Murder Charge
SYDNEY, Monday.—Michael Kelly, 48, was acquitted in Quarter Sessions to-day of a charge of having murdered George Henry…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Newcastle Quarter Sessions (Before Judge Nield) Assault Charge
Victor Frost, of Catherine Hill Bay, pleaded not guilty to having assaulted Donald Peacock, occasioning actual bodily harm, on Dec. 23, 1947…
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SYDNEY: A 23-year-old married man stole £175 from his employers last Friday and lost it all…
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BRISBANE: After being locked in a cell at the City Watchhouse on Friday night, William John Smith, 42…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →20 Killed in Egypt Striking Police, Troops Clash
CAIRO, April 5. A.A.P.—At least 20 people have been killed and nearly 100 injured in clashes between troops and police, who are striking for more pay…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED.—Charged with having assaulted William Lyons, occasioning him actual bodily harm, and with having unlawfully assaulted Lyons,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Adulterated Milk
For selling adulterated milk Frank W. Boheo and Gerald Stephen Bohie, Birdwood-st., Mew Lambton, were fined £1 and 12s costs…
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SYDNEY: Salvatore Samut, 55. charged with attempted murder of Mary Doguara at Wentworthville on March 29…
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Tomorrow night Newcastle [?]d Sydney Police Boys' Clubs hold their annual intercity tournament at Newcastle…
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SYDNEY: A 21-year-old storeman on trial for rape in the Central Criminal Court today repudiated an alleged confession given to the police. He swore that he had been bashed into making it. His mind was a blank as to…
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Mr. Henry Herbert Molloy, about 66, former poultry farmer, believed to be in the Newcastle district, should communicate with…
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CAIRO, April 6. A.A.P.—The Ministry of the Interior announced the end of the police strike throughout Egypt…
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SYDNEY: The strike of boilermakers at the State Dockyard at Newcastle was notified to the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Denied Man Punched At Police Station
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A police witness denied in Central Criminal Court to-day that a man before the Court had been punched at the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—After a three-hour search, water police tonight abandoned attempts to recover the body of a young…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Releases Rowe On Contempt Charge
BRISBANE: Edward Joseph Rowe, who last Friday was committed to prison for contempt of the Industrial Court, was today discharged. The Court, comprising Messrs. Riordan and Dwyer…
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SYDNEY.—A suggestion by counsel that in 1939, when he was suspended from his position as general manager of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. HARDWICKE, S.M.
STOLE HAMMER HANDLES.—For having stolen two hammer handles, valued at 10/, the property of the Railway Commissioner, Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Stole Children's Bicycles
Thomas Arthur Milford, 24. and Leslie William Pike, 19. laborers, who were sentenced at the present sittings of the Quarter Sessions on…
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Robert John Thompson, 28, seaman, was charged before Judge Nield at Newcastle Sessions with having assaulted Barbara Williams…
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