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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 42 of 130

Newcastle Court Before Mr. M. J. Austin, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 9

STOLE MONEY.—For having stolen 9/8 from a shop in Newcastle West, Hilton Frederick Maynard, 29, labourer, was fined £10. He was…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. Hardwicke, S.m.) Man Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 5 May 1949 · page 13

A seaman, Reginald Royston Walker, 35, was remanded until May 13 on a charge of having, on May 4. at Waratah, assaulted [?]ilma…

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Month's Gaol For Breaking Window

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 1

LONDON, May 5. A.A.P.—Robert Copping, 29, Headmaster of the Horsley Hall "freedom school," was sentenced to one…

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Clerk on £22,000 Theft Charges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—William Gordon Thompson, clerk, who is alleged to have stolen £22,0011 from his employer between March…

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Man Dead in Creek; Two Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 1

LISMORE, Thursday. — Two men from Main Arm, Mullumoimby, have been charged with manslaughter as the result of the…

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Negro Charged Over White Girl (15)

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 1

TOPEKA (Kansas) Thursday (A.A.P.). — Rex Ingram, Negro actor, pleaded guilty to a charge of transporting a…

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Police Probe Woman's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY. — Detectives early this morning were called to a house at Homebush to investigate the death of a woman…

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Police Search For London Fire-bug

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 1

LONDON, May 5. A.A.P.—Police are investigating one of London's most spectacular fires since the blitz, which early to-day…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 8

REMANDED.—Reginald Royston Walker, 35, seaman, was remanded till May 14, on £400 bail. on a charge of having assaulted a young…

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Court at East Maitland (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m.) Betting Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 May 1949 · page 2

A man found betting in the public bathroom at the Windsor Castle Hotel on April 18 had a record of 294 bets, the police alleged today…

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Man Charged with Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 1

Maitland police arrested a man today and charged him with assault occasioning bodily harm to a textile worker…

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McPhillips Released From Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY: National Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers' Association, Mr. L. J. McPhillips, was pale-faced when…

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McPhillips Out Of Gaol To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Assistant National Secretary of the Federated Ironworkers' Association (L. J. McPhillips) will be released…

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Hollywood Police Seek Firebug

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 2

HOLLYWOOD, Fri. (A.A.P.) Police are searching for the firebug who, they believe, started the disastrous blaze…

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3 Months' Gaol For Pillaging 1/6 Tin of Soup

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 6

James Joseph Bradley, 30, wharf-labourer, was sentenced to three months' gaol at Newcastle Court yesterday for having stolen on April…

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Murders Stir Hongkong British Police Shot Dead

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 1

LONDON, May 6. A.A.P.—Two British marine police officers and a Chinese detective were shot dead in a patrol launch in Mirs Bay, 25 miles north-east of…

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W.a. Lawyer for Supreme Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 3

PERTH, Friday.—Mr. L. W. Jackson, a Perth industrial lawyer, was to-day appointed a Supreme Court Judge and President of the…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 7

REMANDED.—William George Paget, 34, labourer was remanded till May 20 on charges of having driven a truck in Mann-street,…

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East Maitland Court Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1949 · page 4

BETTING CHARGE.—Leslie Roy Tanner, 21, of Telarah-street, Telarah, was fined £20 for betting in the Windsor Castle Hotel on April…

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Woman Sentenced For Poisoning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 May 1949 · page 4

COLOGNE, May 8. A.A.P.—Irmgard Swinke, 37, a former Berlin waitress, was sentenced to death for having poisoned five women…

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