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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 130

Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. G. C. Hook, S.m.) Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 3

George Lovett, 52, laborer, was remanded until Jan. 27 on ball of £30 on a charge of knowingly having had in a house at Beresford St.,…

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Cessnock Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood. S.M.) Bicycles Without Lights

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 3

Henry Wilson was fined 18s with 7s costs for having ridden a bicycle without a light. Roger Lundy was fined 15s with 10s…

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Boy Charged With Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — A 16-year-old boy will appear before the Children's Court on January 27 charged with the murder of a war…

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Charged with Rape

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: Charged with having raped a 33-year-old woman at Strathfield last night, Mervyn James Whyte Packer (34),…

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Parents Censured By Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Debenham, S.M., at Liverpool Children's Court to-day, criticised the mother and step-father of a 16-year-old girl…

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Man Charged With House-Breaking

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY. — Arthur Wilson (34), wharflaborer, of Bucknell St., Newtown, was remanded at Paddington court today until…

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Traffic Police in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 3

Traffic Constable R. Mann and Special Constable J. Miller, both of Newcastle, suffered minor injuries when their motor-cycle outfit…

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Allied Move to Police Germany

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 3

BERLIN, Jan. 18. A.A.P.—The Western Powers have set up a three-man "Military Security Board" to ensure that Germany can never again use its resources for aggression…

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Newcastle Court (Before Mr. G. C. Hook, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 5

REMANDED.—John Robert Asper, 23, labourer, was remanded to January 28, on £20 bail, on a charge of having stolen at Hamilton in…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. G. C. Hook. S.m.) Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 5

James William Dawson (48). miner, charged with having driven a car in Glebe-rd., Merewether. on Dec. 11, while under the influence of…

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Charged With Death Of Maori Baby

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 2

AUCKLAND, Thurs. — In Masterton today Peggy Maaka (32) was committed for trial on a charge of murdering an…

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No Gaol Term "So Can Pay Compensation"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 3

"The place for you is gaol, but I will not send you there this time because I want you to pay compensation. You seem to be a…

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A. Podmore Likely for Skip Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 11

SYDNEY.—A Podmore is likely to ride Skip Court in the Challenge Stakes. Skip Court was ridden by…

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Police Return Baby Taken From Cot In Hospital

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: After being missing for 11 hours from her cot in Crown-sf. Women's Hospital today, a six days' old baby girl was found asleep in a bed at Punchbowl…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. Hardwicke, S.m.) Placed on Bond

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 3

Gordon Lawrence Duncan, 25. radio salesman, of High-st., Prahran (Victoria), pleaded guilty to a charge of having, between March and…

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£400 Hotel Theft Alleged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 4

Mr. G. C. Hook, SM., began the hearing in Newcastle Court yesterday of a charge against Donald Ronald McKinnon, 29,…

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£60 Fine For Stealing Beer

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY. — Pines totalling £60 were Imposed on four wharf laborers for stealing beer by Mr. Hawkins, S.M.,…

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Woman Charged With Abduction

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Police this afternoon charged a woman with having abducted a baby from Crown-street Hospital. She is Mrs. Charmaine…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. G. C. Hook, S.m.) Gaol for Vagrant

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3

John Everett McGrory, 48, pleaded guilty to a charge of vagrancy and was sentenced to a month's hard labor…

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Murder Feared: Man Missing With Van

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police fear that the missing Braidwood stock and station agent, Thomas William Grigg (32), has been robbed and murdered…

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