Police Break Up Market Meeting
SYDNEY, Tuesday—Polk broke up a protest meeting vegetable retailers at the city markets to-day. The President of the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1949
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 69 of 130
Landlady Tells Court Of Death Struggle
SYDNEY: The landlady of a man who died after a struggle with her daughter's boy friend said at Burwood Court today that he had threatened her with a revolver…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Move to Restrain Union Officers: Court Action Sought
SYDNEY: Allegations that Newcastle ironworkers are being deprived of their trade union rights and that rules are being broken to support striking miners are to go to the Full Bench of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Patrick Kelliher, 48 labourer, was fined £3 for having used indecent language in Newcomen-street, Newcastle, on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Licence Transferred
Application for the transfer of the licence of the Oxford Hotel, Hunter and Crown Streets, Newcastle, from James Laskie (deceased) to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gaol Escapees Recaptured
MELBOURNE, Wednesday—The two convicts who escaped from Beechworth reformatory on Monday were recaptured by police late…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Fines, Gaol Under Vic. Emergency Act
MELBOURNE: Following the declaration by the State Government of a complete state of emergency throughout Victoria, union officials who call a strike in an essential industry without a secret ballot may be fined heavily and anyone who molests or intimidates essential workers may be gaoled…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pickets Dispersed By Police
BRISBANE: Police were sent to Bundamba this morning when pickets made an attempt to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Claims Police Took His Trousers
SYDNEY: Senior police officers investigating a report that two plainclothes police and a uniformed constable assaulted a man in the city last night, removed his trousers and made him walk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Hears Call Of Mating Bird
LONDON.—A sweet warbling note, like the call of a mating bullfinch, sounded through the court at Long Ashton…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Killed Man In Saving Woman, Court Told
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A woman told the Burwood Coroner (Mr. Gibson) to-day that a man who had been charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jap. Police Must Not Fire Over Heads Of Suspects
TOKIO, Thurs. (O.S.R.): Japanese police were forbidden by urgent Government order this week to fire pistols over the heads of fleeing suspects. There has been growing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m
GAOLED.—Frederick Francis Clark, 25, labourer was sentenced to one month's imprisonment when he pleaded "Guilty" to having been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Adulterated Milk
Forbes Gilson, of Pacific Highway, Charlestown, was fined £2 with 10s costs for having on May 25 sold adulterated milk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →18 Months' Gaol for Truck Theft
Found "Guilty" at Newcastle Sessions yesterday of having stolen a motor-truck, the property of Leslie James Galey, at Mascot,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barman Found Not Guilty Of Theft Charge
Three tours after retiring, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty at Newcastle Sessions yesterday in the part-heard case in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →High Court Ruling On Gift Tax
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A High Court judgment which would affect gift tax assessments was given today when an appeal by E. N…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Belmont Court to Sit Every Week
From next week, Belmont Court will sit each Friday instead of every second week: The Magistrate will be Mr. F. G. Pocock, S.M., whose…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
ADULTERATED, MILK.—Forbes Gilson, of Pacific Highway, Charlestown, was fined £2, with 10/ costs, for having sold adulterated milk on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Minister On Gaol Treatment
SYDNEY.—The Minister of Justice (Mr. Downing) said today that the confinement, treatment and gaol conditions…
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