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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 44 of 101

Man Charged In Trunk Murder Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 1

LONDON, June 8. A.A.P.—George Russell, 45, an Irish gardener, of no fixed address, was charged at Maidenhead with the…

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Two Charged Over Pamphlet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police served summonses this afternoon on John William Wallace Campbell, of Victoria-road, Ryde, and Hugh…

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Police Promotions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 3

The following police promotions were announced yesterday— Sergeants third class to sergeants second class: A. H. James…

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Barcoo Court Martial

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY.—Lieut.-Commander D. T. Gale was acquitted at a court martial in Sydney of having negligently stranded his…

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Police Check On Traffic Breaches

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 2

Vehicular traffic was being checked by police on giving way to vehicles on the right at intersections and passing over marked…

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Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 4

ON BOND.—In a case in which Alien Ross. 36, labourer, was charged with having driven a car in Maitlend-road, [?]ngton, while under the…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Bail Forfeited

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 June 1948 · page 2

Hilton Charles Hawkins, 23, seaman, failed to appear to answer a charge of having behaved in an indecent manner in Newcomen-st…

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Butcher Fails in Assault Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A butcher who was hit on the head with an iron bar during a divorce raid failed to establish his claim…

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Wife "Undivorced" By London Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 9

LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.RJ : The Divorce Court of Appeal, the first ever constituted in Britain, has "undivorced" Mrs. Marion Everift, of Blackhill, and remarried her to her husband…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 4

REMANDED.—Norman Hudson, 20, labourer was remanded till June 17 on a charge of having broken are entered the Central Care…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Drove Under Influence

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 9

Finding an offence proved, but without proceeding to conviction, the magistrate placed Robert Edmund Garth (48), contractor, on a…

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Theft Of Sugar Is Alleged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY: The theft of large quantities of sugar from Brisbane was alleged in charges made in Central Court today…

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Arms Theft Reported At Mascot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Early this morning wireless patrol cars were investigating reports of the theft of arms and ammunition, the property…

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Woman Accused of Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY.—Bail was granted by Mr. Harvey, S.M., at Campsie Court today to Catherine Allen, 36, domestic duties…

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Second Sydney Murder Woman Strangled Near Zoo

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A woman (aged 59) was found strangled this afternoon in the scrub surrounding Taronga Park Zoo. Her right temple was also battered in…

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Police Search For Canal Murderer

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY: The search has been intensified for the murderer of gangster Francis John Allard (40), whose body was dumped in an Alexandria canal yesterday…

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Prisoner Slept Through Court Hearing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 1

HAMBURG, June 10. A.A.P.—A prisoner in the dock at Luneburg, who was asleep when the Court convened, snored so…

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Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 6

REBIANDED.—Joseph Henry Davis, 58, lorry driver, was remanded till Wednesday, on £20 bail, on a charge of having driven a track in…

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Federal Court Before Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 6

DISMISSED.—The information was dismissed in two eases un which Raymond Erie Chesworth, registered wholesale slaughterman, of…

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Kurri Court Before Mr. W. C. Avery, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 June 1948 · page 3

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Thomas L. Moyle, who pleaded "Guilty" to having used indecent language in Orange-street, Abermain, on May 20,…

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