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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 136

Theft Of £4645 Parachute Nylon

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE: Detectives investigating the disappearance of parachute nylon from the R.A.A.F. store at Tottenham…

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Man Remanded on Assault Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 4

Thomas Hutchinson, of Cessnock, charged with having assaulted Edwin Anderson, occasioning him actual bodily harm, was remanded…

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Gaol Guard On Dugan, Mears

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Darcy Dugan and William Mears will be under constant supervision and…

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Hongkong Police Raise Barricades

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 5

A few hours after several thousand Hongkong tramway company strikers rioted, police set up barricades. The area in which…

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Missionaries Arrested By Czech Police

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 5

PRAGUE, Wed. (A.A.P.). — Two young Mormon missionaries who "disappeared" in Moravia on Jan. 27 were arrested…

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Socialists Court French Workers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 2

In Paris three weeks ago I was told that the Bidault Government was unlikely to survive more than another month, but that it would be succeeded by another government very much…

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Africans Stone Police; Are Fired On

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 3

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 14. A.A.P.—Africans rioted in the township of New Clare, on the outskirts of Johannesburg, last…

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Men 'Disobeying Court Order Being Foolish'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Wharf labourers in Mackay, Queensland, appeared either to be disobeying the Arbitration Court deliberately, or…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 February 1950 · page 10

DISCHARGED.—The police offered no evidence when Wallace Henry Curtis, 27, shunter, was charged with having ridden a motor-cycle…

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Golf Club Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 6

Thieves broke into a tool shed at Newcastle Golf Club, Stockton, yesterday, and stole wheels, tyres and tubes from a motor mower…

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Charged Fees, Wallsend Patients Say

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 4

Complaints by two patients, who said they were charged fees by attending doctors in the outpatients' department, would be investigated,…

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Alarm Clock Device Is Shown In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY: An instrument consisting of an alarm clock, dry cell battery and booster coil was demonstrated by a detective in the City Coroner's Court today. The coroner (Mr. A. N. Butt)…

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Court Protest On Paying Ex-Price Officer's Costs

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 3

On a matter of "legal principle" two Newcastle solicitors at Newcastle Court today objected to a claim for witness's expenses by a former female prices inspector who is now married and living at Moree. Mr. H. L. O'Neill said he…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 5

REMANDED.—Donald Victor Greenaway, 18, labourer, was remanded till February 27 on a charge of having stolen £110, the property of Cox…

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Vic. Gaol Escapees Are Recaptured

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 2

DENILIQUIN: Three convicts who escaped last Saturday from Ballarat Gaol were recaptured at pistol point at Deniliquin today. Two of the men were bailed up while trying to start a car…

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Court's Ruling on Sharkey Appeals

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Court of Criminal Appeal decided today that it had no jurisdiction to entertain an appeal by Laurence Louis Sharkey against his conviction…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 8

VAGRANCY.—Robert Hugh McLean, 42, labourer, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for vagrancy…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 11

For using indecent language in Scott-st., Newcastle, last night, Roy Dimmock, 32, seaman, was fined 30s…

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Belmont Court (Before Mr. M. J. Austin, S.m.) Drove Too Fast

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 11

Alwyn Anlezark, of Railway-st., Wickham, was fined £4 with 7s costs for having exceeded the speed limit on Oct. 16…

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26 Japanese Charged With Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 1

TOKYO, Feb. 17. A.A.P.-Reuter—Twenty-six Japanese war criminal suspects held at Sugamo prison. Tokyo, have been charged…

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