3 For Trial On Murder Charge
SYDNEY, Friday.—Three men were committed for trial by the City Coroner (Mr. Raschke) on a charge of having murdered Mervyn…
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Courts & crime, 1949
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 45 of 130
Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
SENTENCE SUSPENDED.—Stanley James Wilkinson, 22, labourer, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge of having…
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Mr. Charles Carr Boyd, 65, of Wrightson-avenue, Bar Beach, retired Stipendiary Magistrate, suffered a fractured left leg and arm,…
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BERLIN, May 15. A.A.P.—Hamburg Radio reported that the German police to-day detained two men as a result of their search for…
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SYDNEY.—In sentencing a trickster in the Quarter Sessions today to five years' imprisonment, Judge Redshaw…
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SYDNEY.—"It was a vicious act to stab a man in the stomach because he refused to share a bottle of wine with you,"…
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SYDNEY.—At Parramatta Children's Court today a 28-year-old laborer, Carl Arthur Maher, was remanded on £200…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Higher Penalties Including Gaol Urged For Speeding Motorcyclists
SYDNEY: Gaol for motorcycle speedsters was recommended today by road and pedestrian authorities. Secretary of the Pedestrians Safety league (Mr. N. Allen)…
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SYDNEY.—Detectives of the C.I.B. Scientific Bureau will today examine a human foot found by a youth at Lidcombe…
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SYDNEY.—Letters of administration of the estate of Mrs. Joan Estelle Fingleton, 38, alleged to have been murdered by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nylon Stockings in £2000 Theft
SYDNEY, Monday. — In a well-planned robbery at Woolworth's Ltd's. main store in Market-street, City, at the week-end,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sicilian Bandits Ambush Police
PALERMO (Sicily), May 16. A.A.P.—Followers of Italy's bandit king, Salvatore Giuliano, ambushed two, lorry loads of police on the…
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Newcastle Police Superintendent (Mr. E. Clifford) said today that he would do everything possible to increase police…
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MONTREAL, May 16. A.A.P.—The Quebec provincial police have been accused of having brutally tortured striking asbestos workers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Request More Police Cover For Lambton
Lambton Parents and Citizens Association will ask the Superintendent of Police in Newcastle to give more police protection to…
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Police threw a rabbit-proof wire-netting fence across the Hunter River at Muswellbrook yesterday when searching for the body of a 78-year-old pensioner. Jack Lowe, of Bridge-st., Muswellbrook…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—Practically all cases where Australians were injured in accidents involving cars of oversea diplomats were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spanked His Wife, Actor Tells Court
SYDNEY: Among other episodes in their married life, he gave his wife a "good old-fashioned spanking" and they poured a bottle of milk over each other, radio actor Lloyd Dudley Berrell said today in the Divorce…
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ADELAIDE, Monday. — The Grandstand Bookmakers' Association to-day sought police action in the Regal Gem inquiry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Find Five Children Sharing Room With 14 Dogs
MELBOURNE: Policewomen yesterday found five children sharing a room with 14 dogs in a shanty made of tin, hessian bags and gum tree branches at Ballarat. The policewomen claimed…
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