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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

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Alderman Gets Police Friend Medal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Wednesday.—Mr. Frank Walford, alderman of the Blue Mountains City Council, whose bushcraft has for many years…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 4

REMANDED.—Albert Wennan, 60, pensioner, was remanded till July 23 on charges of having stolen, on or about June 2, 1944, a pony valued…

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12 Months' Gaol for Drug Addict

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—In Central Court to-day, Henry McCaskill Eyre, 43, of King's Cross-road, King's Cross, who yesterday…

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Murders In Malaya Police Blame Communists

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 3

SINGAPORE, June 17.—Police have identified the armed gangsters who murdered three European planters yesterday as members of a Communist strong-arm gang, known as the…

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Police Detain Two Men for Questioning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Two men were detained to-night for questioning in connection with the death of Francis John Allard…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. E. J. Gibson, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 4

OFFENCE IN BUS.—For having used indecent language in a bus in Hannell-street, Wickham, Peter Johnson, 52, seaman, was fined 10/,…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 June 1948 · page 4

Keith Lobley, 28, laborer, failed to appear to answer a charge of having behaved in an indecent manner, and his £5 bail was forfeited…

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Second Man Charged With Allard Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Two men have now been charged with the murder in Sydney on June 9 of Francis John Beaumont Allard,…

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Quantity of Goods Seized; Woman Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—After arresting a 51-year-old woman in the city to-night, detectives seized four truckloads of goods at a room in…

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Outsider's Chance Of Beating Police

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 4

MELBOURNE: You have only a 20 to 1 chance of escaping arrest if you commit a murder in Victoria. The odds are about even that…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1948 · page 4

REMANDED.—James Owen Dunn, 30, welder, and Alfred Allan Honor, 23, labourer, were remanded to raymond Terrace Court, on July 30, on…

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Elderly Man On Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A 63-year-old man was charged with murder, it North Sydney Police Station to-day…

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Accused Of Murder In Daughter's Bedroom

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY: Accused of having shot a young man whom he found in his daughter's bedroom early yesterday morning, Frederick Audsley, 61, carpenter, was remanded at Central Court today until July 1 on a charge of having murdered William Charles Les Jack Crawford, 24…

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Police Seek Youths with Rifles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Late to-night police were searching for three youths in the Manly district, believed to be in possession of…

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Three Months' Gaol For Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 6

Francis Sparke, 27, labourer, was sentenced to three months' hard labour by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday,…

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Second Man Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY.—The second man to be charged in connection with the death of Francis John Beaumont Allard, whose body…

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Father Faces Murder Count

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Frederick Audsley, 61, carpenter, who was charged at Central Court to-day with the murder of William Charles…

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Russians Gaoled for Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 1

VIENNA, June 21. A.A.P.—A Russian court-martial sentenced two Russian soldiers to imprisonment for 25 years for the murder of two…

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Second Man On Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A man flown under police escort from Melbourne to Sydney to-day was charged at Central Court this…

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Police Search Irks Wharfmen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A police search of waterside workers last Friday has been made the subject of an official complaint by the…

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