Voted to Speed Murder Trial
ZANESVILLE (Ohio), March 27. A.A.P.—A woman juror admitted yesterday she voted for a murder verdict so that another woman juror…
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Courts & crime, 1949
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 130
Japanese Unionists Police in Brawl
TOKYO, March 27. A.A.P.—Reuter. —Ten police and 20 demonstrators were injured in a brawl involving 2000 police and 35,000 unionists at…
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SYDNEY: After inflicting shocking and fatal head injuries on his sister-in-law with a paling, a man called at the Hillston District Hospital and told a nurse that the woman had been knocked…
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SYDNEY: A demonstration for Communist Party secretary (L. L. Sharkey was staged by sympathisers when he arrived at the Special Federal Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Illegal Betting
For having used premises in William St., Adamstown for betting. Jack Davies, 64 laborer, was fined £15…
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SYDNEY.—A 23-year-old ferry hand, who punched a Lismore school teacher at Circular Quay on Dec. 21, causing him…
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Arrested at Guyra on February 15, Charles Daniel Perry, 22, moulder Stephen Raymond Flynn, 23, crane-driver, and Maurice Ligouri Toms…
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FRANKFURT, Mar. 28. A.A.P. —The first war crimes trial by a German Court ended to-day with a five-year prison sentence against…
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Top: L. L. Sharkey, General Secretary of the Communist party, at the entrance of a Special Federal Court in…
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PUSHING THROUGH CROWD.—L. L. Sharkey (centre), Communist general secretary, had to force his way through crowds in the corridor at the Special Federal Court when he appeared to answer a seditions utterance charge. DEATH WAS CLOSE.—William Cox, 23-year-old driver of a butane gas truck wrecked in…
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NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Mrs. Pearl Burrus (41) today applied for the job of police chief in Evarts (Kentucky), the…
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SYDNEY: The Stevedoring Industry Commission today decided to seek the advice of Crown Law authorities with a view to prosecuting those responsible for yesterday's stoppage by…
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MELBOURNE: The two mysterious women who were found by Victorian police wearing money belts…
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REMANDED.—A remand to May 19 was granted in the case in which Basil Stavros, 48, shopkeeper, was charged with having assaulted…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Ward) to-day told the Royal Commission into the New Guinea timber deal that the first time he had ever heard of Edward…
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A 19-year-old youth, Thomas Watkins, appeared in Newcastle Police Court today charged with having broken into the…
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SYDNEY: Lawrence Louis (Lance) Sharkey, 50, Communist Party secretary, was today committed for trial to the next sittings of the Central Criminal Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Theft From Store
Sobbing continuously Ella Chandler. 36, home duties, pleaded guilty to having stolen a pair of socks, valued at 2s 71/2d. the property of W. Winn…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Detectives charged a 15½-year-old boy at Red-fern Police Station to-night with having maliciously wounded his…
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"I honestly don't believe I did the things I am accused of," said John Joseph Hallinan, 36. railway fettler, in a statement from the dock at Maitland Quarter Sessions today. Hallinan pleaded not guilty…
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