Top Note In Theft Audacity
SYDNEY, Sunday.—While Albert Thomas, a cornet player in Eastern Command Band, was playing at Sydney Showground…
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Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 57 of 101
Man Charged With Serious Offences
SYDNEY. — Serious charges were preferred against a 22-year-old ice-worker in Hornsby Court today following…
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SINGAPORE, August 8. A.A.P.—Reuter Malayan terrorists last night—Murdered Mr. H. M. Rice, a Scot, manager of Telok Sengat…
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SINGAPORE, Mon. (A.A.P. Reuter): A bandit was killed and several were wounded when snipers clashed with military police advancing from Gua Musang today…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police last night arrested a 20-year-old man alleged to have posed as a detective. The man had been reported to…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police ambushed and arrested a man last night after being told that an attempt would be made to rob an…
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Gaining entrance through an unlocked window, thieves stole a cash tin containing £8 in silver from the surgery of Dr. F. S. Bonar, of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Mabel Flora Rowe, 52, was remanded till August 18 at Campsie Court to-day on a charge of having…
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LONDON, Aug. 9. A.A.P.—The body of a four-year-old boy, Patrick Creamer, was found hanging in a bombed warehouse 200 yards…
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SINGAPORE, Aug. 9. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Three Chinese terrorists early this morning seized a Chinese schoolteacher at Bukit Siput, two…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two men —one a barrister—alleged to have attempted a hold up with a toy pistol, were committed for trial…
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HOLBROOK: Police are statisfied that ptomaine poisoning caused the death of a nine-year-old Holbrook girl yesterday and made her mother and five other children seriously ill…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDS.—Herbert James Britton, 67, caretaker, and Kenneth Alfred Marquett, 30, labourer, were remanded to August 26 on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Unclean Premises
Prosecuted by Greater Newcastle Council for having unclean premises, James Williams oF Maitland-rd., May field, was fined £2 with 8s costs…
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MELBOURNE.—Leo Vincent Kinsella (35), printer, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for manslaughter by Mr…
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Traffic talks beginning next week would greatly assist in the education of motorists, Police Inspector G. G. Noble…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →EDITORIAL The High Court Is A Guardian
BETWEEN the arbitary decisions of Parliament and the constitutional rights of citizens only the High Court of Australia stands. The High Court has frequently been attacked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Finds Vital Sections Of Bank Act Are Invalid
SYDNEY: The Full High Court today ruled invalid vital sections of the Banking Act, 1947, affecting the taking over of the trading banks and the compulsory acquisition of their assets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDS.—Frederick John Avery, 26, motor mechanic, was remanded till September 30, on £20 bail, on a charge of having ridden a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Sentence Suspended
A sentence of one month's imprisonment, imposed on Stanley Morris Lang, 44, watchman, for theft of property belonging to the…
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