Tokyo To Have Tough Police Flying Squad
TOKYO, May 25.—The metropolitan police to-day announced the formation of a new tough, flying squad, 2500 strong, to be…
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Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 101
Move For Court Vetting Of Agreement Fails
A recommendation from the Library Committee that the lease and agreement for the transfer of the Newcastle School of Arts to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
REMANDED.—John Beattle Neill, 5, labourer, and Keith Fay, 21, labourer, were each remanded to June 2 on charges of having…
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Keith Fay, 21, labourer, and John Beattie Neill, 25, labourer, were committed for trial at the current Quarter Sessions when they…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Raiding a house in the Canberra suburb of Kingston to-day, police found three amplifiers and five…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
PLACED ON BOND. — Rupert Thomas Lowrie, 55, hotelkeeper, was placed on a £20 bond to be of good behaviour for 12 months when he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Belmont Court (Before Mr. W. C. Avery. S.m.) Charge Withdrawn
"People go to the police and make charges and then want them withdrawn. They should be more careful," said Mr. Avery, when he…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Gaoled for Assault
The admission by Garth Nurse Williams, 26. seaman, of having unlawfully assaulted John Martin, chief engineer of the vessel…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Herbert Carter, 58, carpenter, of Banks street, Maroubra, was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions to-day to three…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Charged at Parramatta Court to-day with having escaped from Berrima Gaol on May 25, James Bernard Payne,…
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In addition to being sentenced to two years' imprisonment by Judge Nield at Newcastle Sessions yesterday on 12 charges of breaking and…
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Within 38 hours of their arrest on a charge of assault and robbery two men were given gaol sentences by Judge Nield at Newcastle…
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SYDNEY: Surrounded in a bushy valley near Bethungra at 5 a.m. to-day a dangerous lunatic, for whom police had been searching unceasingly since Wednesday afternoon, made a desperate bid for freedom. The cornered man jumped…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
STOLE OVERCOAT.—Keith Fay, 21, Labourer, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and ordered to pay 30/ compensation, when he…
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SYDNEY, Friday.âLeslie Marlan, 21, was sentenced in Quarter Sessions to-day to three years' gaol for having assaulted Denis…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. E. J. Gibson, S.m.)
FALSE PRETENCES.—Leslie William Clarke, 30, labourer, was given a three months' suspended sentence and ordered to enter into a bond of…
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AUCKLAND, Sunday.—Following the death of his brother, Hone Paraone, 45, in Auckland Hospital. Raymond Paraone, 34, farmer, of…
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SYDNEY: A man, who in the Quarter Sessions today, took the whole blame for a fraud that he and a woman perpetrated on the Rural Bank was told by Judge Markell that while his action was chivalrous, it did not exculpate the woman…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police believe a gang is responsible for two robberies and an attempted robbery in North Sydney last night and…
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NEW YORK, May 30. A.A.P.—The Soviet Union would disregard the advisory opinion given by the International Court of Justice at…
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