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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 136

Man For Trial For Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 4

Thomas Hutchinson, charged with having assualted Edwin Anderson on February 8 and occasioned him actual bodily harm, was…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 7

WINDOW BROKEN.—George Wallace Morley, 25, seaman, and Anthony Patrick McNairney, 28, moulder, were each fined £2/10/ and ordered…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 4

For having used Indecent language in Newcastle Police Station chargeroom last night. Albert Edmondson, 24. was fined £2…

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Gaol Sentence For Westerling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 1

SINGAPORE, March 8. A.A.P.-Ruter.—Captain "Turco" Westerling was sentenced to gaol for one month in the District Court…

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Magistrate Quotes Claim Of Right

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 5

The defendant had made a bona fide claim of right and the Court had no jurisdiction, Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., said at Wallsend…

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Machine-gun Theft; Man For Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having broken into a Government depot and stolen…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 7

REMANDED.—Keith Joseph John Steele, 37, labourer, was, remanded till Monday on charges of having stolen an umbrella valued at £1/17/3,…

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Kurri Court (Before Mr. R. R. Wood, S.m.) Betting Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 2

Henry Kenneth Berry (26), miner of Lang-st., Kurri, pleaded guilty to a charge of betting at Kurri on Feb. 25 and was fined £20…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 21

For having smoked in a butcher's shop at Lambton, a place used for the preparation of food, John Wendt. of Downie-st., Wickham, was fined…

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Five Men on Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE: The 303 bullet which fatally wounded Mervyn Batten, 30-year-old wharf laborer, at Collingwood…

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Belmont Court

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 11

(Before Mr. M. J. Austin. S.M.) "You had better tell your principals that someone will go to gaol shortly," said Mr. Austin when he fined Joseph Reginald Cummings £15…

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Love Story Told At Trial For Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 5

QUEBEC, Thurs. (A.A.P.): A 19-year-old waitress today told a jury of her tempestuous and intimate relationship with a married man charged with having murdered his wife…

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Favoured for Denham Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 2

Indian Chief, who has been working impressively, is expected to win the first division of the Denham Court Handicap…

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Navy Officers Named For Court Martial

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA: The Navy Minister (Mr. Francis) today named the two naval officers who will face a court martial over the Tarakan disaster in Sydney in January…

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Court Directs Russian Spy Be Deported

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Valentin Gubitchev received a 15 years' suspended sentence today and was ordered to be deported to Russia within a fortnight…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 4

REMANDED.—James Alex Cook, 51, guard, was remanded to May 3, on £20 ball, on a charge of having had in the parcels room at Waratah…

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Letters Between Firm And M.L.A. Read To Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Letters said to have passed between Non-Metallies Ltd. and Mr. F. J. Cahill, M.L.A., in 1948, were read to-day before the Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice…

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Theft of Wool

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY.—A £500 reward is offered for information leading to the recovery of a trucked with 47 bales of Wool stoled…

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Police Officer Honoured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 3

The address, painted by Mr. H. Gibson, recorded the reservists' appreciation of Superintendent Arnold's work training volunteers…

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5 Men Remanded on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Five men were remanded to-day till March 17 without bail on a charge of having murdered Mervyn Batten, 30,…

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