Police Direct Sydney Meat Queues
SYDNEY, Thursday.— Police were called to direct long queues which formed outside several suburban shops still selling meat…
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Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 101
Warned Of Police Raid, Fined
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Clifford Arthur Featherstone, fruit hawker, was fined £10 at Bendigo City Court for having rushed ahead…
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INSULTED CONSTABLE.— Paul Healy, 24 airman, was fined £1 for having used Insulting words to Constable Donald Malcolm Robertson in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Gaoled for Vagrancy
Michael Stephens, 50, laborer, pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy. Constable Mann said he saw…
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SINGAPORE, Jan. 9.—A Japanese captain, to Shichuo, told the War Crimes Court at Kuala Lumpur that he was being…
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LONDON, Sat. (O.S.R.): Two women will appear in court to-day, charged with babysnatching following the return of two…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The State Government has increased to £10,000 reward offered for information leading to the arrest and…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Charged at Central Court to-day with the murder of William Joseph Realph, 40, fisherman, Robert William Murray,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Banned Communists Defied Police
RIO DE JANEIRO. Jan. 9. A.A.P.—Police fought for an hour, with guns and tear gas. and seriously wounded four Communists…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Long Bay Gaol Breaker Surrenders To C.I.B.
SYDNEY: Crofton Edward Barnes, 26-year-old gaol escapee, surrendered at C.I.B. headquarters at 11.30 a.m. today. He was formally charged with having escaped from lawful…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.A. May Seek Court Order On Rail Link
ADELAIDE, Friday—The Premier (Mr. Playford) said to-day that if the Federal, Government did not soon begin to fulfil a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
BEGGED ALMS.—Michael Stephens 50, labourer, was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment with hard labour for having begged alms in Scott…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →East Maitland Court (Before Mr. W. K. Earls, S.m.)
FINED FOR BETTING.—Geoffrey Kenneth Leslie, 33 baker, was fined £20 for having used the yard of the windsor Castle Hotel. East Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Underground Party Workers Sentenced
OCANA (Spain), Jan. 11. A.A.P.—A Spanish military tribunal imposed sentences ranging from one to 25 years on 16 defendants,…
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GOULBURN, Sunday.—After a fatal accident near Crookwell early to-day, police charged the driver of a truck with manslaughter and…
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SYDNEY: William James Marshall, 23, stood with arms folded when charged at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Call Council "Cuckoo Court," Says Alderman
Greater Newcastle Council would be more aptly named "Cuckoo Court Council," Aid. Breen said at a meeting of the Newcastle A.L…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Brief Black Bans On South Coast Hotels But No Beer To Sell Anyway Jeweller's Costly Error ... £83 In Court Penalties
ONLY A FEW saloon bar customers and a couple of old-age pensioners patronised Wollongong hotels today, owing to the black ban which covers 25 hotels from Clifton to Dapto…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Meter Theft of 51d Cost Man 3060d
SYDNEY, Monday. — A thief who stole 51 pennies from a gas meter was fined a total of £12/15/ in North Sydney Court to-day…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Unshaven and dressed in a shabby blue suit, William James Marshall, 23, was charged at Redfern Court with…
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