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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 59 of 130

Woman [?] To Go to Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 9

LONDON: Mrs. Nancy Elizabeth Kate Paxton, of Church Lane. Wealdstone, refusing in the Probate Court to hand in…

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Police Dog Had Blase Of Glory

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 9

LONDON.—If Blaze, a Surbiton police dog, had been in court at Kingston it would probably have wagged its tail with…

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Court Injunction On Union Extended

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY.—An interim injunction granted last Friday to restrain the Amalgamated Engineering Union and its officials…

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Court Rejected Plea For Woman

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 2

LONDON: A counsel's plea for leniency for a woman because she had become engaged to a farmer who knew nothing…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. HARDWICKE, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 5

REMANDED.—William John Edwards, 14, motor dealer, known as John Patrick Sidebottom, was remanded till Monday on charges, by…

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Court at Newcastle [?] Mr R. A. Hardwicks [?] Did Not Appear

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 10

Ball was forfeited by three persons who failed to appear. They were: Boy Shaw, 45, clerk, charged with Indecent language in…

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Damaged Police Notebook: Doctor Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 June 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY.—Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones, of Imperial Ave., Bondi, was charged at Paddington Court today before Mr…

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Appeal To Court On Coursing As "Cruelty"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Full Court to-day reserved judgment on whether coursing hares was punishable as cruelty…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 June 1949 · page 6

THREE CHARGES.—Walter James Millis, 37, labourer, was fined £2 for having ridden a bicycle in Auckland-street, Newcastle, while under…

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In Brief South Africa May Ban Communists Reds And Police In Violent Clash

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 June 1949 · page 8

At least one person was killed and another injured by police gunfire in Calcutta last night, when Communists fought with police, bombed State-owned buses and set fire to a tram. The…

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Arrest In Stockton Assault Case

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 3

This morning a man aged 27 was arrested at his home at Broadmeadow in connection with the assault on a six years…

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U.S. Communists Sent To Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 3

LOS ANGELES, June 29. A.A.P. —Four Communist Party executives, including a woman, were sentenced in the Federal Court to…

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Court On Munmorah Stranding

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: The main factor which resulted in the stranding of the Munmorah on Bellambi Reef on May…

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Police Raids In 8 Sydney Suburbs

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY: In at least eight suburbs last night and early to-day, detectives raided premises in search for a gang of armed…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 9

DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to other James Attfield 2, labourer, was charged with having driven a car negligen[?]y in…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. M. Austin, S.m.) Unlicensed Radios

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 June 1949 · page 3

The following were fined on charges of having had unlicensed radios: Leslie Milne Whyte, Everton-st., Broadmeadow, £5, 10s costs;…

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Man Charged With Intent To Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1949 · page 2
Also in The Newcastle Sun

Newcastle police yesterday charged a 25-year-old man with having caused grievous bodily harm to a child with intent to murder…

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Gaol For Abo Who Assaulted Police

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 July 1949 · page 4

An aborigine, who said he had been struck on the head recently with a woomera, was today sentenced to three…

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On £1500 Sheepskin Theft Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 July 1949 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Sidney Smith, 45, an employee of Dalgety's Ltd., was charged in Central Court to-day with having stolen 2500…

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