Police Drag River
SYDNEY: Police are dragging George's River, near Sans Souci, for the body of Regin-ald James Hodges, 45, of Foster…
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Courts & crime, 1950
2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 136
Two Police Defied Hostile Mob
LONDON—Two police officers who made an arrest in defiance of a hostile crowd of about 400 were praised by…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Governor-General (Mr. McKell) has accepted the resignation of Mr. Justice Starke as a Justice of…
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LONDON Thurs. (A.A.P.). — Lieut. G. P. Bowers, commanding officer of the submarine Truculent which was sunk in…
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MELBOURNE: Comic Court galloped attractively at Caulfield today in preparation for the William…
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OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Edward Dolman, 46, labourer, was fined £2 for offensive behaviour in Hunter-street and £3 for having used…
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Prompt action by Cessnock and Branxton police resulted in the arrest near Branxton of two youths who were later…
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BOSTON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—British underwriters will cover the loss of the 1,500,000 dollars robbery at Brinks'…
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LITHGOW, Thursday.—An hotel licensee was charged with manslaughter at a special Court to-night, following the death in a…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P. and O.S.R.): Brian Donald Hume (29) was sentenced last night to 12 years' imprisonment when he pleaded guilty to having been an accessory after the fact of murder…
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A fine of £4 with 10s costs was imposed on Eric W. McCully. "Palm Court." Darley Rd., Manly when he pleaded guilty to exceeding the…
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MELBOURNE: Bail of £500 was allowed in the City Court today to a 43-year-old woman charged with murder. She is Mrs. Lillian Cowen…
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DJAKARTA, Jan. 26. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Police cordoned off Pasar Baroe, the big shopping centre in the heart of the city, after…
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Sergeant E. J. Williamson, formerly of Dungog, is the new officer in charge of East Maitland police. Sergeant Williamson fills…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Sixty police waited at Mascot airport to-night for a Skymaster in which, police had ben told, Darcy Dugan…
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SYDNEY: Thirty police in wireless cars, a police launch and on foot figured in an exciting two-hour chase at Point Piper early today after a car thief…
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SYDNEY: Detectives investigating the brutal bashing of an attractive 29-year-old woman at Avalon on Wednesday night today arrested a man. A pair of two-tone moccasins…
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REMANDED.—Hilton Charles Hawkins, 24, seaman, was remanded till February 3 on charges of having stolen, on or about January 23, five…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Indecent Behavior
For having behaved indecently in Scott St., Newcastle, yesterday, George Douglas Holmes, 72, cook was fined £3…
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NEW YORK, Jan 27. A.A.P.—The Chicago police are holding 14-year-old Philip Cammack on a charge of having murdered his…
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