Man Calls Police Aid; Lost In King's Cross
SYDNEY, Tuesday—Mr. Donald McBean, 70, a Scot, who arrived from Melbourne yesterday, was lost in King's Cross to-day and had to…
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Courts & crime, 1949
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 130
Sent To Gaol For Contempt Of Court
SYDNEY: Mervyn Leonard McHenry of Grafton, was committed to 21 days in Long Bay Penitentiary by Mr. Justice…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday. — A 41-year-old hospital orderly who appeared on an indecency charge in Port Adelaide Police Court…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Queensland detectives have asked Sydney detectives to help them identify a skeleton of a man found at Mt…
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First class liqueurs were not available in many hotels in various parts of the Commonwealth, an applicant for a wine…
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LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R ).— Pope Plus XII and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster today were awarded by…
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DISCHARIGED.âThe police offered no evidence when William Rutherlord, 37, driver, was charged with having driven a motor-lorry…
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BRISBANE, Thursday. — Richard Dudley Barnett, 18, labourer of Mayfield-road, Tarragindi, was charged in the Police Court to-day…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. â A soldier, George Charles Clarke, 32, of Derby-street, Vaucluse, was charged at Liverpool Court with…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Mervyn Leonard McHenry, of Queen-street, Grafton, was to-day sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment by the Judge in…
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A dispute which threatens to cause a stoppage in butter, cheese, bacon and milk factories in areas north of Newcastle will be referred…
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FRANKFURT, Feb. 17. A.A.P.—Major-General Maxwell Taylor, Chief of the United States ground forces in Europe, has ordered the…
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MELBOURNE: Comic Court and Carbon Copy, who are engaged in the Sydney Cup, are expected to fight out the finish of the Gisborne Handicap at Moonee Valley tomorrow. Preference is given to…
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DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when William John Harden, 43, taxi-driver, was charged with having driven a taxi-cab in a…
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BETTING FINES.—Two men fined for illegal betting were—Ernest Augustus Hill, 50, miner (premises in Minmi-road, West Wallsend),…
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"Apparently you are one of the smart alecs of the world," said the magistrate when he fined John Carew, 10. seaman, £3 on a charge of…
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18. A.A.P. —William Tilden, 56, former world tennis champion, was sentenced yesterday to one year's imprisonment…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Justice Clyne said to-day he was suspicious about an application made by George Frank, former racehorse…
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ROME, Feb. 18. A.A.P.— The Communist-dominated Chamber of Labour to-day called a general strike in Rome as a…
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INSULTIN[?] WORDS.—For having used insulting words to John Refty In the Drown Derby Cafe on February 17, John Carew, 19, seaman,…
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