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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 130

Court at Newcastle Motor Cyclist Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 June 1949 · page 10

An 18-year-old motor cyclist was fined £15 for driving at a speed dangerous to the public. He was Trevor Clive Winkworth…

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Man Charged With Mate's Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 1

DARWIN, Tuesday.—A Northern Territory crocodile shooter, Fritz Honenman, rowed a dinghy 24 miles upstream in the Daly River…

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Police Boys' Cycle Championships

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 6

The Police Boys' Cycling Club will hold its annual road championships on the Highfields circuit, at Birmingham Gardens, on Saturday…

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Bookmakers Call On Police For Protection

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 1

LONDON, June 14. A.A.P.—Police reserves during last night guarded bookmakers' stands on the open heath at Ascot racecourse…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 4

BAIL FORFEITED. —Cornellus Ketting, 21, seaman, failed to answer a charge of having used indecent language in Newcastle Police Station…

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Police Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 8

FINED FOR THEFT.—John James Sharp, 25, labourer, was fined £10, and ordered to pay £6/5/ compensation, for having stolen a wrist watch…

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Fines, Gaol For Poll Breaches

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A maximum penalty of £100 or six months' imprisonment is the penalty proposed for publishing or broadcasting any electoral comment 70 hours before the close of a po[?] the…

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Police Photographed Wrong Site

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 5

When Detective Constable Merchant, of the Scientific Bureau of the C.I.B., had visited the New England Highway to take…

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New Police Chief At Newcastle

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 3

Police Superintendent James Wiley arrived in Newcastle to-day to take charge of the Newcastle Police district…

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Police Take Chinese From Flood Area

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Police to-night evacuated about 30 Chinese market gardeners from the Nepean River flats at Camden and…

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Doctor In Fifth Matrimonial Court Action

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 June 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the Supreme Court to-day Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones, 46, of Macquarie-street, figured in a fifth set of…

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Escapee Gets 9 Months' Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 5

Two men who escaped from Newcastle lock-up early on Wednesday morning were sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Mr. M. J…

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Police Farewell Superintendent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 4

Police of Newcastle police district attended a function at the Police Boys' Club yesterday to farewell the former Superintendent…

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Police Greet New Superintendent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 4

Members of Newcastle and district police yesterday farewelled the Police Superintendent (Mr. E. Clifford) and welcomed the new…

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Newcastle Court (Before Mr. M. J. D. Austin, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 6

REMANDED.—Charles Mathews, 63, labourer, was remanded till June 30. on £10 bail on a charge of having had in his custody a bicycle…

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Prices Court At Cessnock (Before Mr. Isles, S.m.) Butcher Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 9

Elias Leonard Merrick, Cessnock butcher, was fined £3, with £2 15s witnesses's expenses, for a breach of Prices Regulations in overcharging…

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Wallsend Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m.) Smoked in Hall

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 2

Pleading guilty to having smoked in the auditorium of the Wallsend Masonic Hall on Mar. 12, Keith Barnett, of First St., Teralba, was fined…

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Gaol Broadcast

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 10

Another broadcast by inmates of the Goulburn Gaol will be heard on Station 2HD at 12.30 p.m. on Sunday…

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Son Sentenced For Father's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Joseph George Eaton, 33, factory worker, was sentenced to two years' hard labour, in Central Criminal Court,…

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Woman Charged With Perjury

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 June 1949 · page 6

Necia Grace Davidson, 33, home duties, was committed for trial at Newcastle Quarter Sessions on July 25 by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke,…

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