Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
SUSPENDED SENTENCE.—Donald Burt, 21, labourer, was given a suspended sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard labour and…
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Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 101
Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Remanded
Charged with driving a motor car under the influence of intoxicating liquor in Broadmeadow-rd., Broadmeadow, and driving in a dangerous…
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BOWEN, Friday.—Six seamen of the Fort Lennox appeared in court to-day, on remand, on a charge of having unlawfully killed a shipmate,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Probe Death of Young Mother
GUNNEDAH.—The mysterious and agonising death of a 21-year-old mother in Gunnedah District Hospital an hour and a half after she had given birth to her third child is puzzling detectives…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m.)
GOODS CLAIMED—Frederick James Yarrow, of Antill-street, Mayfield, proceeded against his brother-in-law, George Stifling, of Hanbury-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hit Leaving Cafe, Police Allege
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A cafe proprietor is alleged to have struck a youth over the head with an iron bar as the youth was leaving the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Probe Death of Man, 75
SYDNEY, Sunday. — Police are investigating the death of Thomas Slyman, 75, who was found dead in his bed this morning in a small…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Licensees to Let Police See Cellars
WOLLONGONG, Sunday—South Coast hotelkeepers to-night agreed to permit police and Customs officers to inspect their cellars, but…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Believe Terrorist Was On Sydney Bus
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police believe that the man who has been terrorising women in the eastern suburbs for a week was also the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Expect Amazing Story in Drug Peddling Charge
SYDNEY: On the application of police in the Lunacy Court today, a 23-year-old woman who had declared in the Parramatta Children's Court that she had been peddling drugs, was remanded to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. B. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Bond for Motorist
Cecil Ernest Jack, 48, fruiterer, pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle in Hunter St. on New Year's Ere while under the influence of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Expected Police
When Detective W. Pollock told Leslie R. Barnsen, 27, tiler, that he had a warrant for his arrest on a charge of stealing tiles valued at £20 at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Remanded In Lunacy Court
SYDNEY, Monday.—Nancy Orlaine Harrison, 23, domestic, was remanded in the Lunacy Court to-day, in custody of the Reception…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thieves Raid Police Ball "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Thieves at the Police Benevolent Association ball stole the supper funds, badges and £250 worth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Court (Before Mr W C. Av[?] S M)
Donald Francis McLeod was fined £7 10s when he pleaded guilty to having driven a utility truck in Wollombi Rd., Cessnock, on Jan. 13 while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
Placed on Bond.—Finding a charge proved of having driven a utility truck in Hunter-street, Newcastle, on December 31, while under the…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 20. A.A.P.—The slowest police car police at Atlanta (Georgia). Because of the extreme cold,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Brief Girl (13) Collapses On Way To Murder Mother
PARIS.—Police report having found a 13-year-old girl, [?] they call Artette, lying [?] on a road 100 miles from Paris, to which [?] walk to kill her mother. She told them her father had seen shot by the Gestape in 1943…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Minister's Notepaper Used by Garden, Court Told
SYDNEY: Without authority, "Jock" Garden had written a letter on the official notepaper of the Minister for External Territories regarding an alleged lease involving £100,000 worth of timber in New Guinea, the prosecutor for the Crown (Mr. Shand) said in the Special Federal Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
TILER CHARGED. — Charged by warrant with having stolen tiles. valued at £20, the property of Frederick Michael Powell, at Granville…
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