Woman Police Officer's Long Service Record
LONDON, Feb. 11. A.A.P.—London's first woman detective, Detective Inspector Lilian Mary Wyles, will retire from the Metropolitan…
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Courts & crime, 1949
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 130
Comic Court To Rum At The Valley
MELBOURNE: Comic Court, impressive winner of the Devonshire Handicap at the Valley on Saturday, is to have his…
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STOLE SCISSOLS.—For the theft of a pair of tailor's scissors valued at £2/10/, the property of Elijah Abel Cummings, Norman Herald, 59,…
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TAMWORTH, Sunday.âA man was charged at Tamworth Police Station with having assaulted Mrs. Joan Sanders, 23, of…
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SYDNEY.—The victim of an alleged rape told Burwood Court today that the man threatened to "finish her" if she did not…
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PERTH, Sunday.—William Waldoff Bottomley, 40, manager, was struck by a car in Riverside-drive, Perth, and injured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Actress Stabbed During Murder Play Rehearsal
ADELAIDE, Sunday—An actress was accidentally stabbed in the back three hours before curtain rise on the murder drama "Distinguished…
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LONDON, Feb. 13. A.A.P.—On condition that he boarded ship for Australia by March 3, Desmond Acquin Gaffney, 33 accountant,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Arrest Four At Gunpoint
SYDNEY, Sunday. — Sergeants Burns and Dixon, of Liverpool, to-day arrested at pistol point four men who, they said, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Recover Body From Creek
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The body of Peter Miles Robertson, of Chatfield-street, Belfield, was recovered last night by police, from a creek…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Harden Police Detain Missing Leper Patient
HARDEN, Sunday.—Police to-night detained the 19-year-old leper girl who absconded from the lazaret of Prince Henry Hospital, on…
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SYDNEY: Allegations that a 17-year-old wife had been forced by threats to write a statement at dictation were made in Central Court today. The husband of the girl,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.— Detectives and special women police investigating alleged indecent assaults on two girls, aged 12 and 13, to-night…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Charles McAuley, 34, postman, who pleaded "Guilty" to theft of articles from the mails, was remanded for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Fire On Africans
JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 14. A.A.P.—Police shot dead one African and wounded four when they fired on a large group of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m.) Carpenter Fined
Arthur Lyle Smith, carpenter, of Kearsley, was fined £10 with £4 0s 6d costs on a charge of having stolen seven sheets of galvanised…
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A charge that William Maynard Douglas Muncaster, 34, bricklayer, had stolen timber valued at £8/10/ from a partly-built Housing…
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Robert Edward Goldie, 53, labourer, was fined £3 in Newcastle Court yesterday for having behaved offensively in the charge room of…
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SYDNEY. — A post-mortem examination will be held in an attempt to find the cause of death of Leslie James McKean,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Damages Claim Settled In District Court
After evidence had been given by one witness, a settlement on terms filed, but not disclosed, was announced in Newcastle District…
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