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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 136

Malays Confess Murder Plot Against British Officials

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 3

SINGAPORE, Fri. (A.A.P.-Reuter ): The function of an organisation in Sarawak called "Thirteen Essential In gredients" was to assassinate the Governor and other British officials. This was revealed today at…

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Czech Police Expel American Student

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 2

PRAGUE, Fri. (A.A.P.).—Czech police yesterday expelled a 27-year-old U.S. student. Pavel Kliachko, who was the…

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Police Stop Schoolgirls' Racket In U.S.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 4

ROCKFORDI (Illinois), Jan. 5. A.A.P.—Two girls aged 12 and 13 were handed into custody of the juvenile authorities after they had…

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Police Break Up Brawl In Sydney Cafe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Tables were overturned, chairs broken, crockery smashed, and a cash register damaged in a brawl in the…

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Yugoslav Gaoled For Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—A Yugoslav was sentenced to-day to three months' gaol for having assaulted Constable Robert William Weir at…

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Announcer Remanded on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—John Bryan Kerr, 26, former radio announcer, appeared in the City Court this morning charged with having…

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Man On Cyanide Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Senior Detective Currer said in the City Court to-day that Walter Henry Cannon had shown him a bottle…

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3 Men Charged After Brawl In Sydney Cafe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Three men, with bandaged heads and bloodstained clothing were charged in the Central Court to-day with…

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Woman's Allegation: "Wrong Man On Murder Charge"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

A woman alleged in the Coroner's Court yesterday that a witness and not the man charged with murder had caused fatal injuries to John Johnston Kerr, 28, signwriter…

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Police Medallist Killed By Reds

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 2

SINGAPORE, Sat. (A.A.P.).—A Malay police sergeant, Abu Bakar Min Ali, of Selangor who was awarded the Colonial Police…

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Great Dane Holds Thief For Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A Great Dane clung to a man breaking into a house in Pascoe Vale, South, early this morning, till police…

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Court Supports Transport Union Official

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. A. G. Platt remains Secretary-Treasurer of the New South Wales branch of the Transport Workers' Union…

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Prints From Safe May Lead Police To 1946 Murderer

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Sat. (O.S.R.): Fingerprints found on a safe at Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, have left London on a 4000-mile plane trip to British Guiana. Police there believe the prints…

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Unsuccessful Swoop By Police In Search For Dugan, Mears

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY: Detectives today surrounded a house in Paddington and removed carpets from the floors in search of a trap door following a report that escapees Darcy Ezekeil Dugan, 29, and William Mears, 28, were living beneath the house…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. M. J. D. AUSTIN, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 January 1950 · page 4

REMANDED.—Cecil George Rowlands, 23, labourer, was remanded to Muswelbrook on February 8 on a charge of having stolen a man's…

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Three Men Charged At Maitland With Assault And Big Thefts

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 4

Five additional charges of stealing goods valued at £678 in robberies at Clarencetown, Telarah, Bolwarra and Maitland were preferred against three men when they appeared at Maitland Court today. The defendants were on re-…

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Boy Charged With Having Wounded Father

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A boy aged 13, of Red Cliffs, has been charged with having wounded with intent to murder his father, who is…

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Pensioner Is Remanded On Attempted Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY: A 60-year-old war pensioner, who allegedly produced a revolver and attempted to shoot a man during an altercation after he embraced the man's woman friend at a Mosman guest house on Saturday, was charged at North Sydney Court today with attempted murder…

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Police Recover Body Of French Sailor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The badly decomposed body of a French sailor was recovered from Sydney Harbour to-night by the Sydney water…

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Police Dog Chases and Catches Thief

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 8

LONDON.—Chased and caught in Hyde Park by Ben, a black Labrador police dog, Cuthbert Aloysius Massiah, aged…

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