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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 130

Latvian Boy Praised in Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 4

A 13-year-old Latvian boy from the Displaced Persons' Centre at Greta was complimented by the Crown…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 6

REMANDED.—Ronald Barry Sohier, 19, painter, was remanded to Belmont Court on July 20, on charges of having caused grievous bouny…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke.) Broke Bond

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 11

Colin Smith, alias Colin Curry (24), laborer, appeared before the court, on a charge of breaking a bond…

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New Orders to Mine Officials Pay Money To Court To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 July 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the Arbitration Court to-day Mr. Justice Foster issued new orders to the Southern and Western districts of the Miners' Federation and seven officials to pay £8700 to the…

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Perjury Action Possible—Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 5

If an application were made to prosecute for perjury, it would receive serious consideration, the Magistrate (Mr. F. R. Wood) said…

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Preferred Gaol To Bond

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 5

Proceeded against by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ivy Rachael Davis, of Merewether-street, Merewether, at Newcastle Summons Court…

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Year's Gaol for Mineleader

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—John Hodge King, Western District Miner's Secretary, had his sentence of one month's gaol for contempt of court increased in the Arbitration Court to-day…

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Miner Fined For Stealing Coal

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 3

in the Newcastle Court today a miner told Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., that he had taken coal from a railway truck because his child was ill and he had no fuel at his home. The miner, George Frederick…

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W. Parkinson, Fitzgibbon Get Year's Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Acting General President of the Miners' Federation, William Parkinson, and the secretary and treasurer of the Southern Miners' District, Morris Michael Fitzgibbon, were each…

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Greta Cook Not Guilty Of Assault Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 5

Arvida Moriss, 26, Latvian cook at Greta displaced persons' centre, was yesterday found "Not guilty" of having assaulted Gottfried…

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Police Patrol at Warner's Bay

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 4

Members of Warner's Bay Progress Association said they were pleased police patrols were operating on the waterfront road to check…

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Eight Police Killed in Jungle Ambush

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 3

SINGAPORE, July 13. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Eight police were killed and two wounded last night when a routine jungle patrol was…

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S.A. Police Plan For Roadhogs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—A surprise is in store for roadhogs on specially tuned motorcycles who streak away from…

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Mine Leaders Before Arbitration Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY: Acting General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. W. Parkinson) told Mr. Justice Foster in the Arbitration Court today that he knew of no steps having been taken to comply with the court's order to produce money withdrawn from the bank…

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Money Not Paid Into Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Justice Foster was told by the Industrial Registrar (Mr. J. E. Taylor) in the Arbitration Court to-day that the Western Miners' Federation had not paid £4500…

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Big Force Of Police Drafted To Coalfields

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 3

About four hundred police are due to arrive on the northern coalfields today. They will be stationed on the Cessnock field and surrounding…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 8

NO ACTION TAKEN.—The Magistrate took no action when Colin Smith, alias Colin Curry, 34, labourer, was charged with having broken a…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke.) Licence Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 11

An application by Elsie Mabel Black for the transfer of the licence of the Esplanade Hotel from the estate of her deceased husband, Hugh…

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Youth Is Charged with Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: John Patrck Rylands (19), carpenter, of Croydon Rd., Croydon, appeared before Mr. McElroy, S.M., at…

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Long Police Trail in Murder Hunt

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 3

TOWNSVILLE: Sydney detectives are still on the trail of the murderer of Miss Mary Fahy, a Maroubra storekeeper…

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