Judge Orders Police To Unhand Man
SYDNEY, Monday.—Judge Berne in the Quarter Sessions to-day told two policemen it created a bad impression to lead an…
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Courts & crime, 1950
2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 136
Trials By Jury Opposed By British Police
LONDON, April 3. A.A.P.—The Scottish Police Federation to-day told the Royal Commission on capital punishment that "trial by jury…
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Income of the Newcastle Police Boys' Club from October 1, 1948, to December 31, 1949, was £3171/1/3 and expenditure…
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BETTING.—For having used premises in Brunker-road. Broadmeadow, for betting, John James Rudd, 49, labourer, was fined £15 and ordered…
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MIGRANT CONVICTED.—For having sold a bottle of gin without a licence at Greta No. 2 migrant centre on March 17, Dragon Miloslawiewic,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Five shabbily dressed men appeared at Central Court to-day, charged with having stolen 12 rolls of suiting…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Governor of Pentridge Gaol, J. F. Edwards, was found guilty of "disgraceful and improper conduct" by…
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CAMDEN (New Jersey). April 4. A.A.P.—Frank la Salle, 52, motor mechanic, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having kidnapped…
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A protest against Newcastle City Council's control over the electricity supply in Lake Macquarie Shire was made by Cr. H. Taylor last night…
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SINGAPORE, April 4. A.A.P.-Reuter.—In the face of intensified terrorist activities in the past two days security forces had a success…
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A barrister said at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions today that police had interfered when he tried to get instructions from his client in the cells below the court…
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SYDNEY.—A woman, stated to have been hit on the head with a hammer, ran screaming from her home in Clyde Ave.,…
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FOR TRIAL.—John Henry Field, 37, labourer, was committed for trial at the present Newcastle Quarter Sessions on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wallsend Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m.) Traffic Breaches
Allan Ashton, Brunker-rd., Broad-meadow, was fined £5 with 10s costs for exceeding the speed limit on Jan. 30 on the main highway, Hexham…
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PRAGUE, April 5. A.A.P.—The Czech State Court has sentenced 10 Roman Catholic monks to gaol for terms ranging from two years to hard labour for life…
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An attempt was made at Belmont yesterday to murder a picture show proprietor by a man who fired a gun at him, the Police Prosecutor (Sgt. J. L. Martin) alleged today at Newcastle Court. He requested that the man,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Described as the son of a Western grazier, who died in 1941, Alfred Raymond Mallick, 33, was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Pickup, S.M., at Central Court to-day placed on bond a young man, who it was said, would inherit a…
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IOWA CITY, Wed. (A.A.P.)—Men and women cried in court today when a jury acquitted Robert Bednasek (24) of a…
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BRISBANE: Charles Norman House, 20, was committed for trial in the tiny Alpha Court today on a charge of having murdered a station hand by shooting him in a railway carriage on March 22. He pleaded not guilty and…
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