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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

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Police Officer Congratulated

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 6

Sergeant C. E. Kennedy, who has been appointed Acting Inspector, was congratulated on his promotion at Cessnock Court yesterday by the…

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Man Shot Dead; Cousin On Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Ronald Albert Loveday, 32, gardener, of Miranda, was charge in Kogarah Court this morning with the…

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Indian Police Chief Killed By Communists

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 4

CALCUTTA, July 19. A.A.P.—A mob of several hundred armed Communists butchered an Indian police chief to death after women…

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Ex-Ambassador Before War Crimes Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 8

PARIS, Wed. (A.A.P.).—A former Premier, Paul Reynaud, told a War Crimes Court yesterday that Hitler's ambassador…

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Teralba Court (Before Mr. Wood. S.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 2

A fine of £5 was Imposed on Edmund Leslie Chapham (24). miner. when he pleaded guilty to driving a motor lorry at Argenton on July 8…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 8

REMANDED.—Norman Leonard McCourt, 41, builder, was remanded till August 9, on £20 bail, on a charge of having driven a truck in…

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High Court Ready To Hear Test Of Judge Foster Penalties

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: If the parries are ready, the High Court will sit tomorrow to determine whether Mr. Justice Foster of the Federal Arbitration Court, sitting as a single judge, has jurisdiction to impose penalties for contempt of court in proceedings under the National…

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Free Speech In Japan Leads To Court Action "Herald" Tokyo Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 6

Propaganda for a wage increase by the labour union at the Mitsubishi caustic soda factory in Yahata brought union and management…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. B. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Hotel Alterations

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 July 1949 · page 14

The licensee of the Commercial Hotel, Adamstown, was granted an extension of time to Nov. 30 to complete alterations to his premises…

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Husband Charged with Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Denis Woodbury, 49, contractor, whose wife was found with her throat cut in the bathroom of her…

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High Court Refuses To Nullify Gaol Sentences

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY: The High Court today rejected an application by Mr. Simon Isaacs challenging the power of Mr. Justice Foster to gaol union leaders for contempt of the Arbitration Court…

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Gaol Sentence For Millionaire

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 3

PARIS, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Joseph Joanovici, 44-year-old Bessarabian rag-picker millionaire, was today sentenced to…

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On Bond For Lead Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 5

Albert Gordon Moore, 62, crane-driver, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., at Newcastle Court…

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Second Gaol Term For Solicitor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Spencer Ingram Pearson, 33, solicitor, who is serying a sentence of three years' imprisonment for misappropriation…

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'Lack Of Police' In Country

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 3

After discussing police protection in country areas, Lower Hunter Shire Council carried a motion "viewing with alarm the want of…

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Court At Kurri Fined Over Horse Rugs

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 3

Robert Carr Burrell, 23, pleaded guilty to a change of stealing a horse rug valued at £2 10s, the property of J. and A. Brown…

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High Court May Hear Union Appeal To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Waterside Workers' Federation is expected to lodge its application with the High Court to-morrow…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 7

DISMISSED.—The information was dismissed when John Thomas Beckett, traveller, of Campbell-street, Paddington, was charged with…

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Gaol For Man Who Lived With Girl Under 16

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Edward Reuben Kain, 40, interior decorator, was sentenced in the Quarter Sessions to-day to 12 months'…

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Japanese Police Arrest 18 Miners In Bed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 1

TOKYO, July 21. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Two hundred armed police early yesterday arrested 18 miners in bed for having allegedly…

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