Armed Police Make Night Arrest
KATOOMBA, Sunday.—Police from Katoomba, Lawson and Went worth Falls made a gun-point arrest in a house at Hazelbrook late…
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Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 35 of 101
Police Search For Burglar
WOLLONGONG, Monday.—A burglar who fired a shot at a man in Main-road, Austinmer, on Saturday night is being sought by…
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MILAN, April 26. A.A.P.—Police in Milan fired into the air and repeatedly drove jeeps into a crowd to break up a communist…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Charging two men at Burwood Court to-day with having stolen a 1939 Pontiac car last night, Constable Baillie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Bond for Cyclist
Lawrence Gill, 39, mixer-driver, was placed on a £20 bond to be of good behavior for 12 months when ne pleaded guilty to having driven a…
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PARIS, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Self-styled art philatelist Jean Sperati got a year's gaol for having swindled collectors with faked…
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REMANDED.—Daniel Edward, 46, horsebreaker, was remanded to May 11, on £20 bail, on a charge of having stolen, at Tarro, two horse…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Prohibited Immigrants
Two seamen, charged with being prohibited immigrants, were each sentenced to six months' gaol pending deportation…
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SYDNEY: In the Central Criminal Court today. George Paul Bechtold (21), railway upholsterer, was charged with murdering his mother, Mrs. Maud Bechtold, on Jan 23…
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WELLINGTON, Wednesday.—Police believe that Mrs. Florence Amelia Byrne, 47, who collapsed and died in convulsions yesterday,…
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PROHIBITED IMMIGRANTS. — Antonios Rousos, 21, seaman, and Andreas Papamoros, 38, seaman, were each sentenced to six months'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Offensive Behavior
William Hill (20), of Dennlson St., Hamilton, and Colin Ashley (19), of Newcastle St., Broadmeadow, were each fined £1 with costs when they…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—For the manslaughter of his wife, Eileen May Shields, 43, at her home, North Yallourn, on February 2, William…
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SYDNEY: Salvatore Sammut, 55, poultry, farmer, of Blacktown, had demonstrated to him how he had stabbed his step-daughter, a detective-sergeant said at Parramatta Court today…
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DISCHARGED.—Thomas Henry Parker, 24, dealer, was charged with having driven a lorry negligently in Railway-street, Wickham. Constable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. E. J. Gibson, S.m.) Trespassed on Railway
Alfred Broadby, 42. laborer, was lined £2 for having trespassed In the Broadroeadow railway goods yards on April 29…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Harold Joseph Price, 44, solicitor, to-day was sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment on 29 charges of…
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TEMORA, Friday.—Rita Marie Condron, of Cootamundra, to-night was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered her husband, Robert Sylvester Condron, 46, railway guard…
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TEMORA: Mrs. Rita Marie Condron of Hovell-st., Cootamundra, was committed for trial in the Temora Coroner's…
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William Henry Ashmore, of Turnbull St., New Lambton, reported to Newcastle police to-day that he had lost £130 from…
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