Newcastle Court Had Quiet Day
Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions had its slackest weekday for many months. Mr. M. J. D. Austin, S.M., dealt with…
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Courts & crime, 1950
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Fewer Offences in 1949 in Police Division
In 44 courts in the North-eastern Police Division, 14,969 cases were dealt with in 1949. This was a decrease of 193 on the year…
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LONDON: People taking an afternoon stroll along the Thames bank at Reading ran for cover as a bull galloped…
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WEE WAA: Police today warned residents of Wee Waa that parts of the Namoi River were unsafe for bathing because umbrella grass has banked around rocks and debris. Police fear that a tragedy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
BEHAVIOUR CHARGE.—Leonard John McKinnon, 22, labourer, and Thomas Jackson, 32, labourer, were charged with offensive behaviour in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m.) Offensive Behavior
Neville Ward Hopkins, 29, laborer, and John Robert Gorman, 36, laborer, who pleaded guilty to charges of offensive behavior on New Year's…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Frank Loyal Weaver, 24, who figured in several attempts to rejoin a Japanese girl whom he married while a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Harry Carden Oldfield, 38, [?]nvalid pensioner, in North Sydney Court to-day was committed for trial on a…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 4. A.A.P.—Dr. Hermann Sander, 40, has been indicted by a Grand Jury at Manchester (New Hampshire) on a charge of first degree murder…
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MELBOURNE: Homicide detectives are investigating the deaths of two people in Melbourne early…
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SYDNEY.—The Federal Government, it is expected, will soon appoint two new High Court judges…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallsend Court Before Mr. F. R. WOOD, S.M.
OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Neville Ward Hopkins, 29, labourer and John Robert German, 36, labourer, were each fined £1/10/, with 10/…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. M. J. D. Austin, S.m.) Noisy Sailors
Because they wanted to make a noise, two Norwegian sailors from the S.S. Vistforce broke a 19ft cell board valued at £3, in Newcastle…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—After a woman was found dead in her flat at Hawthorn early this morning, a lodger was arrested and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Jagged Bottle Neck In Assault Case
SYDNEY: A jagged bottle neck and portion of a human ear were produced by police in Newtown Court today as evidence in a case of alleged malicious assault. Leslie Smith, 47, laborer, of…
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WARSAW, Jan. 5. A.A.P.—Three Roman Catholic priests and their three assistants were convicted at Rzeszow yesterday of collaboration…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A postmortem examination to-day on Mrs. Dart and her daughter disclosed that 12 blows were dealt the…
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SYDNEY: Kevin John Irwin (23) moulder, of Garrong-rd., Lakemba, appeared at Campsie Court today on charges of murdering Mrs. Dorothy Dart (49) and her 20-year-old daughter, Dorothy Jean Dart…
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MELBOURNE: A large quantity of cyanide was found in a bottle recovered from a factory…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.) : Fewer divorces were granted in Britain after the postwar rush; fewer babies died; more murderers were convicted: more people suicided…
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