Hit Wife, Sons With Hammer, Man Told Police
GRAFTON, Friday.—A constable said at Maclean Court that a Clarence River farmer told him he tried to kill his wife and three…
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Courts & crime, 1949
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 130
East Maitland Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m.)
UNLICENSED DRIVER,—William M. Cunningham, of Swan-street, Morpeth, was fined 33/, with 7/ court costs, for having driven a motor…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A 45-year-old man was arrested this morning and charged with having assaulted a 7-year-old girl yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police are searching for a man who is believed to have stolen 16 bales of wool valued at £720 from Dualong…
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TAMWORTH, Sunday.—Police are endeavouring to trace relatives of a man who collapsed and died while travelling in a south-bound…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke S.m.) Drove Under Influence
[?] pleaded guilty to a charge of having driven a motor cycle in Newcomen-st. while under the influence of…
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NSYDNEY. —Charged with stealing a fourpanel van and men's shirts on Oct. 1 last year. Michael Mahony (42) was today…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A barman was remanded at Central Court to-day till January 11, on £1000 bail, on a charge of having assaulted and…
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LONDON, Jan. 10. A.A.P.—The man who climbed the Eros Statue and caused a traffic land in Piccadilly Circus on January 3…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Mrs. Jean Elizabeth Dawson, formerly a nurse, said in Parramatta District Coroner's Court to-day that her brother…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. HARDWICKE, S.M.
REMANDED.—Arthur Christopher Osborne Bulley, 43, miner, was remanded till February 18 on a charge of having assaulted Lois Edith Young,…
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John Henry Field, 35, laborer, was remanded to Jan. 14 on £80 bail on a charge of breaking and entering the lock-up shop of Stanley Arthur…
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William Painter, the 38-year-old unemployed plumber, who could not stand heights, photographed on top of Eros Statue,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A young man, alleged to have threatened the manager of a Haymarket residential with a sheath knife to-night, was…
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BERLIN, Wed. (A.A.P.).—The American-licensed Dana News Agency reported that the Russian "chief of a big tool works…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police to-day banned a march of greengrocers to Parliament House, Sydney, which was scheduled for…
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REMANDED.—John Henry Field, 35, labourer, was remanded till Friday on a charge of having broken and entered the shop of Stanley…
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LONDON, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—Rev. Launcelotte Bernard Zacchacus Davis, 46, Rector of Claxby (Lincolnshire), appeared at Brentford…
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ROME, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—Nemos Amisona, 28-year-old merchant of Novara, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for getting…
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A 22-year-old escapee from Macksville lock-up was recaptured by police nine miles away, at Nambucca Heads, yesterday, after an…
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