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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 130

Charges of Race Murder Against Soviet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 1

STUTTGART, March 7. A.A.P. Eight hundred Baltic refugees, at a protest meeting here adopted a resolution appealing to U.N.O. to…

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Admission on Woman's Death, Police Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—After a middle-aged timber cutter had allessdly beaten a young woman to death at Taree, on November 18,…

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Wife, 16, Weeps In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY: "I can't. I don't want to give evidence," an attractive blonde girl-wife cried…

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Princess Hears Girl Swear In London Slum Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.): Princess Margaret yesterday visited a juvenile court in East London's slums. She took keen interest in the proceedings and leaned forward…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. G. C. HOOK, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 6

REMANDED.—John Aubrey Griffen, 30, labourer, was remanded till Monday on a charge of vagrancy. William Arthur Evans, 20, and…

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Dairyman Charged With Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 8

ROCKHAMPTON, Tuesday.— Arthur Gerald Huet, 38, dairyman, was charged in the Police Court to-day with the murder of…

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Graziers Say Stock Stealing Increasing

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: Sheep stealing and cattle rustling in N.S.W. country districts are increasing, graziers said at their annual…

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French Officer Charged As Spy

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 3

PARIS. March 8. A.A.P.—Captain Rene Azema, one of two Army officers named in the French Government's Communist spy hunt,…

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Went For Lecture; Held For Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 4

NEW YORK, Tues. (O.S.R.).—A father who took his 16-year-old son to a police station to ask the sergeant to lecture him…

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Police Story Of Night Club Raid

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—"Some people were strewn about the entrance in a recumbent position on the floor,…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. F. Pocock, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 5

REMANDED.—William James Pyke, 20, window-dresser, was remanded till Friday, on £40 bail, on a charge of having obtained by false…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Hook. S.m.) Case Adjourned

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 9

A case in which John Benson, of Main Rd., Boolaroo, was chanted with having driven a motor car In a negligent manner in Hunter St.,…

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Agent Charged with Misappropriation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Faud Kabell Mockbell, 32, agent, charged in Central Court to-day with mis-appropriation, was remanded till…

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Clerk Lost £1800 Racing, Police Say

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An estate agent's clerk had admitted to stealing about £1800 and losing it all on racing, police alleged in the…

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Newcastle Court (Before Mr J. S. Hart, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 6

REMANDED—David Angus Ewing Sallers, 27, engineer was remanded till to-day on a charge of having broken into the shop of Bargain…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. G. C. Hook. S.m.) Accosted a Woman

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 5

When Harold Sidebottom, 32. miner, of Railway St., Cook's Hill, pleaded guilty to a charge that he behaved offensively in Scott St…

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Masked Youth Sent To Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY.—Sentences of 12 months' gaol on two charges were passed in Central Court today by Mr. Harris, SM., on…

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Sentenced To Die For Poisoning Pigs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1

BELGRADE, March 10. A.A.P. —Four employees of a Yugoslav State farm at Josipindvov, in Slavonia, have been sentenced to death…

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Listened To Murder Over Telephone

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, March 10. A.A.P.—Shots that caused a double murder and suicide in a lavish New York City…

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Alleged Train Bandits Taken After Gunfight With Police

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Two gunmen who allegedly held up a passenger train in West Virginia last night were captured by police here today after a gun battle. One was shot and critically…

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