Thompson 'Helped Defeat Gaol Break'
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Clifford Tasman Thompson, recently released from gaol after serving a little more than three years of a 12. year sentence for wounding, had assisted prison…
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Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 101
Magistrate Told "Not To Waste His Time"
"I don't know and I don't care," said Adele Patricia Berthold, 19, home duties, who was charged with vagrancy at Newcastle Court…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Superintendent W. R. Lawrence, of the Police Traffic Branch, said that many road deaths were nothing else…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—George Stanley Thompson, 66, medical practitioner, and Gene Valentino Van Gercken, 23, were discharged…
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Police and detectives made intensive inquiries yesterday on the report that a young man had been forcibly taken away by car from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Told "Kidnap" Domestic Affair
Newcastle police received an anonymous telephone message late yesterday afternoon advising them to drop their inquiries of the alleged "kidnap" from the Bank Corner on Tuesday night because it was…
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SYDNEY: South Australian colt, Comic Court, to be ridden by J. Thompson at Canterbury on Saturday ran an attractive five furlongs in 1.6½ on the outside of the Randwick course proper today…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Air Force Bars Men With Police Records
Men who have police records or who are unfavorably known to the police are being barred from enlistment with the Royal Australian Air Force. The secretary of the Air Force…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court Orders Sea Pilots to Resume Work
SYDNEY: Striking sea pilots were ordered to resume work at 4 p.m. today by the Full Bench of the Industrial Commission. The Senior Judge (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tradesmen Dispute at C.s.c. in Court
SYDNEY: Hearing of a dispute which has caused unemployment of 483 men at the Commonwealth Steel Company's works at Waratah since July 5 was stood over this afternoon until next week by the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
MASSEUR CHARGED.âHugo Alwyn Wagner, 18, masseur, was remanded to August 26, on £200 bail, on the following chargesâAt Newcastle, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Trespass on Railways
James Callaghan. 45, laborer, was fined 30s when he pleaded guilty to a charge of trespassing at Newcastle railway goods yard. Callaghan. it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Judge Upholds Assault Appeal
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Judge Shortland, at Parramatta Quarter Appeals Sessions, to-day upheld an appeal by a warder at Callan…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A man caught with 1000 rounds of ammunition, gelignite, detonators, [?]usewire and lighters in his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Qantas Men Fined For Assault, Liauor Breach
DARWIN: Stephen Kelly Howard of Darwin, former superintendent of Qantas passenger hostel at Berrina, near…
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SYDNEY. — A middle-aged married woman was today committed for trial on a charge of murder by the coroner (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Skylark, Police Told
A man anonymously telephoned Newcastle police yesterday to say the reported kidnapping at the Bank Corner on Tuesday night was "silly…
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NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—A proposal to ban the sale of comics has been made in New Albany (Indiana) following the…
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A party of seven men stole £700 worth of jewellery and money from from a house in Surry Hills, Sydney, early this morning…
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Cessnock police were told today that a two-year-old boy had died in Cessnock Hospital after having swallowed a…
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