Tried to Ram Taxi, Say Police
SYDNEY.—A driver of a panel van last night followed and tried to ram a taxi cab in the city, Central Court was…
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Courts & crime, 1949
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 57 of 130
Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when Roy James Watson, 42, packer, was charged with having driven a car negligently in…
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Leslie William Pike, 20, labourer, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, by M. M. J. D. Austin, S.M., at Newcastle Court…
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A young seaman told Mr. Hardwicke, S.M., today that he would rather serve a gaol sentence than go back to work on…
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The police authorities were still of the opinion that a new police station would be best located at New Lambton, the Secretary of…
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SYDNEY. — Business was so brisk in the Traffic Court to-day—there were 332 cases—that operations were suspended so…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. —Two spots were fired into a room of a house in Waterloo-street, Collingwood, to-night while police wireless…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
DISCHARGED.—Leon Dumaresq Sewell, 47, bus driver, was discharged on a charge of having entered land in Laman-street. Cook's Hill, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. Hardwick, S.m.) Indecent Behavior
Thomas Richard Oughton (40), a seaman, was fined £3 for behaving in an indecent manner in Scott St. INDECENT LANGUAGE…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Bail Forfeited
The Maitland floods caused a man to forfeit his bail at Newcastle Court today. Norman Leonard McCourt, 41, was…
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Donald Leonard Bowers 18, seaman who said he preferred gaol to returning to his ship was sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Sentencing a 66-year-old man, who had collected money for blind institutes without authority, to six months'…
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SYDNEY: Since 1912 sentences aggregating 30 years had been passed on Charles Johnson (72), seaman, for offences…
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LONDON (OSR): Four schoolboys, stated to have blackmailed a schoolmate, were told in a juvenile…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Because of conflicting authorities in English and Victorian law, Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy, in the…
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A special squad of detectives has been sent from Newcastle to Maitland by Superintendent J. Wiley to deal with any looting…
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BAIL FORTEITED.—There was no appearance of Patrick Kelly, 33, clerk, to answer a charge of having obtained £140 from Albert Benjamin…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Maitland West Maitland Court Before Mr. F. R. WOOD, S.M.
Arising out of incidents at Maitland railway station on Friday night, four men were charged yesterday. They were—Jack Thomson, 27,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Offensive Behavior
Arthur William Buttersworth, 21, laborer, was fined £3 on a charge of offensive behavior in a Hunter St. milk bar yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Teralba Court (Before Mr. M. J. Austin, S.m.) Damage to Glass Door
Pleading guilty to maliciously damaging a plate gloss door at Teralba Post Office, valued at £3 3s, on May 21, James McNair, 22, stoker…
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