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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 130

Woman Charged With Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: A 40-year-old married woman was charged with murder at Red fern Court to-day and was remanded until…

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Crippled Wife Charged With Murder Of Her Husband

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police alleged today that Mrs. Lily Gurney, 39, of Liverpool Road, En field, killed her husband, Frank Herbert Gurney f with a hammer early this morning. Mrs. Gurney was charged in…

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£300 Jewel Theft At Wagga

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 1

WAGGA, Sunday.—Jewellery valued at more than £300 was stolen from a Wagga jeweller's store early this morning…

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3 Men, Woman Charged With Manslaughter

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Early this afternoon detectives arrested three men and a woman and charged them with the manslaughter of Mrs…

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3 Gaoled For Assault

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

SYDNEY, Monday.—The assault of a fishmonger at Glebe and theft of £241 were described by Judge Curlewis in the Quarter Sessions…

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Girl, 6, Reports Assault

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

SYDNEY, Monday.—Detectives are searching for a man alleged to have tried to indecently assault a six-year-old girl at Flemington this…

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Fined For Assault On Constable

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 2

For assaulting Constable Roy Barton at New Lambton yesterday, Burton Pendlebury. (25). a crane chaser, of Thalaba-rd…

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Maroubra Murder Reward Offer

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 9

SYDNEY.—The State Government has approved the recommendation of the Police Commissioner (Mr. Scott) to…

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Crippled Woman Charged With Hammer Attack

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

SYDNEY, Monday.—Accused of having killed her husband with, a hammer at Enfield, a woman was remanded to-day till May 10 on a…

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Four Charged On Woman's Road Death

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

SYDNEY, Monday.—After a woman had been fatally injured by a car, the car was stopped, two men returned to the woman, but…

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"Served All His Term For Murder"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY.—John Thomas Myers, who was convicted of murder in 1939 and released on licence last year, served his full…

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Perth Police Raid Communists

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

PERTH, Monday.—Acting on search warrants, city police yesterday searched the homes of 18 Communists and suspected Communists…

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U.S. Soldier On Triple Murder Charge

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

LONDON, May 2. A.A.P.—An American soldier was under close arrest in Stuttgart yesterday on charges of having shot dead a…

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Wide Police Search For Launch Crew

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 1

A police squad led by Sergeant Fordham today searched the beaches north of Stockton in an effort to find the bodies of the two men believed to have been drowned from the launch which was wrecked off Bar…

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Widows of Police "Get Less Than Junior Girls"

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

SYDNEY, Monday.—The minimum rate of pension paid to widows of policemen killed on duty was not as much as paid to junior…

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Counterfeiting Story in "Confession" Read in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: A story of counterfeiting operations was contained in a document produced in Central Court to-day. Stanley John Wordley, 32…

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K.C. And Police Clash In City Tatt's. Cases

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY: Clashes between Mr. W. R. Dovey, K.C., and the Police Prosecutor (Sgt. D. Goode) marked the opening stages of police prosecutions against members of City Tattersall's Club, who were arrested on April 1 and charged with breaches of the Gaming and Betting Act, when hearing of the charges commenced…

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Missing Fishermen 25 Police and Two Planes In Vain Search

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 2

A long search along beaches yesterday and a close survey from the air failed to locate survivors or the bodies of men missing from the…

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Deportation After Gaol Sentence

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA: The Commonwealth Government is understood to have decided to deport Lars Gustav…

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Police Quarters "Like Blacks' Camp"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Complaints that police officers had to wash on the front lawn, that police offices and buildings were unsafe and…

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