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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

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Three Wins for Police Boys in Basketball

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 6

The Northern District Amateur Basketball Association commenced its summer competition before a large crowd…

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Minister Names Naval Men For Court-martial

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

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for the Navy (Mr. Francis) to-day named the two naval officers who would…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 12

BOUND OVER.—Keith Laurence Holland, 18, salesman, who pleaded "Guilty" to having stolen £7/4/9, the property of his employer,…

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Assault Alleged At Migrant Camp

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 2

Arising from an alleged assault in the mess hall of the Greta Migrant Camp on Feb. 16, in which a man was stated…

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Negress Kills Self in Gaol Cell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 1

CAIRO, March 12. A.A.P.—Georgia Hattie May Turner, 32, a negro woman charged with the murder of five persons, killed herself…

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Police Allege Youth Burned Yacht

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY: An 18-year-old laborer, charged in Central Court today with stealing, was alleged to have set fire to a…

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Bomb Attacks Made On Belfast Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 1

LONDON, March 12. A.A.P.—Two bomb attacks were made on police stations in Belfast in three days last week…

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Whipping, Gaol Ordered For Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Monday.—A whipping and seven years' gaol was ordered by the Chief Justice in the Criminal Court to-day for an…

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Gangster Films Led To Murder "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 1

LONDON, March 13.—Two young men, childhood friends who spent most of their evenings together seeing gangster films, stood…

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Police Sought Information by Telegraph

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 3

Proceedings in a Newcastle court case were interrupted this morning while Det.-Sgt. P. J. O'Neill telegraphed for…

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Court Sets Aside £1955 Verdict

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A verdict for £1955, awarded to a man in a libel action last year by a Supreme Court jury, was set aside…

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Police Investigate Maiming Of Cats

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE. — A Melbourne veterinary surgeon, W. Lloyd Phillips, said last night that he had treated a dozen…

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Police Called To Brawl In Migrant Ship

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

Police were called to stop a fight in the crew's quarters of the migrant ship Oxfordshire last night The fight occurred when some…

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Court Charge Dismissed, But Railman Sacked

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

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Commissioner for Railways (Mr. Garside) had dismissed a railway employee for stealing after a Police…

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Boilermakers Condemn Court Move On Ballot

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

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Sydney branch of the Boilermakers' Society to-night condemned the action of the Arbitration Court in…

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Suitings Stolen From Ships, Court Told

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

Several shipping firms had reported the theft of suit material, Newcastle Court was told yesterday when three men were charged with…

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Police to Control Use of Roads for Cycle Races

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 15

SYDNEY: The Police Traffic Department has directed that all road cycling races must be sanctioned by the police. Until recently the police banned all open events on main highways. Clubs which used roads where traffic was light…

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Next Move In Tram Strike Is Court Case

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 5

MELBOURNE: No further moves are likely in Melbourne's three-week-old tram strike until after the Arbitration Court deals with the application for de-registration of the Tramways Employees' Association…

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

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

REMANDED.—Harold Maxwell Haylor, 35, carpenter, was remanded till April 11, on £10 ball, on a charge of having stolen four sheets of…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Failed to Pay Award

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 March 1950 · page 14

For failing to pay award rates to N. Keen, a cook, and Jean Euston, a kitchenmaid, Sarah Ellen Wormold, of Gordon-ave. Hamilton, was fined…

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