"Footlights" For Mounted Police
LONDON, Jan. 12. A.A.P.—Mounted police on evening patrol in London will soon have "footlights" for safety in traffic,…
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Courts & crime, 1949
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 130
Police to Escort Mustangs
A police escort has been arranged when four Mustang fighter planes are taken on trailers to Williamtown aerodrome on Saturday…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — A woman alleged to have "married" five men in 18 years was committed for trial at Central Court…
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SYDNEY: The first State prices prosecutions came before the Special Tribunal at Glebe Court today.[?] A total of 40 cases (38 of alleged overcharging by traders…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — Police might be asked to attend the meeting to-morrow night of Melbourne Trades Hall Council,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Tests Validity Of £150,000 Bequest
LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R.): Two King's Counsel today debated in the Chan, very Division the validity of a bequest of £A150,000 "For the education of the people of Britain in Socialist principles. The bequest was made by an…
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DROVE UNDER INFLUENCE. — James Herbert Grey, 31, labourer, was fined £5 when he pleaded "Guilty" to having driven under the…
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KATHERINE (Northern Territory)—Elsey, cattle station of "We of the Never Never" fame, figured in charges in Katherine…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Irvine Thomas Jubow, 38, former showman, was fined £5 for having stolen a dinner bell from the Star…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Charged After Sleepers Put On Line
KEMPSEY, Thursday.—A young man was charged at Kempsey Police Station late this afternoon in connection with an attempted…
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SYDNEY.—Douglas Francis Hardie, 20, was charged at Kempsey Court today with placing eight sleepers on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Boys Secure Club Site
The former police station at Hunter-st. West has been secured as a site for Newcastle Police Boys' clubhouse…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Uproar, scuffles with the police, and shouting and yelling caused to-night's meeting of the Trades…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Two young men whom police alleged held up a middle-aged woman with a gun, bashed her, bound and…
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NARRANDERA. — William Marshall, of Melbourne, a 30-year-old truck driver, who told police he had been held up and…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Police do not believe that a Victorian truck driver, who said to-day he had been held up by armed bandits,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Armed Police In Search After Threat To Kill
WAGGA, Thursday. — Armed police and detectives are searching the Wagga district for a man who, a woman said, threatened to kill…
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SYDNEY.—A young woman was arrested aboard the Moreton. Bay by water police when the liner reached Sydney from…
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LONDON, Sat. (O.S.R.).—A photograph, widely distributed as that of the killer of the Bristol bank manager, George Black,. has turned out to be that of a man who has been in an Eire prison for nine months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Studied in Gaol, Passed Exam
PERTH, Friday.—A prisoner undergoing sentence at Fremantle Gaol passed his Junior Certificate examinations in the six subjects for…
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