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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 136

Teralba Court Assault Charge Fails

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 3

"I am not satis[?] that an assault took place by the evidence submitted," said Mr. Wood when he dismissed the information against…

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Hainan Assault "In Ten Days"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 1

HONGKONG, April 12. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Usually reliable pro-Communist sources today predicted that the Communists would launch a general assault on the Nationalist island of Hainan, off the South…

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Three Convicted Of Assault, Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 8

After inspecting the locality, the jury at Newcastle Quarter Sessions returned a verdict of "Guilty" at 10 o'clock last night, in the…

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Alibi To Be Claimed In Murder Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Counsel for Rex Llewellyn Flanagan, 33, who appeared in Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of…

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Police Guard For Yehudi Menuhin

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 4

TEL AVIV, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Yehudi Menuhin. the violinist, was given a special police guard when he arrived yesterday for…

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Woman Supreme Court Judge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 5

Justice Annette Abbott Adams, president justice of the District Court of Appeals, Sacramento (U.S.A.), sits on the State Supreme Court. She was the first woman jurist over to attain the distinction in America. Chief Justice Gibson is at left…

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Police Seek Higher Pay, Penalty Rates

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday,—Higher pay for members of the New South Wales Police Force was sought before the State Industrial…

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Court Limits Order Against Watersiders

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Justice Kirby, in the Arbitration Court to-day, refused to cancel an order against Brisbane waterside…

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Police Break Up Red Demonstration In Paris

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 1

ABOVE: Paris police clash with Communist demonstrators protesting outside a newspaper office against the publication of reminiscences of a Nazi. This dramatic picture shows a club-sowinging policeman chasing a running man over a fallen policeman…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. K. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Offensive Behavior

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 April 1950 · page 6

For having behaved offensively In District Park, Broadmeadow, on April 12, Angus Henry Dodds, 26, laborer, was fined £5…

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Conditions Of Gaol Officials "Appalling"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Long Bay Prison officials were treated far worse than hardened criminals, Mr. C. R. Harper, Prisons Industrial…

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Police Transfers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 5

The following police transfers in the North Eastern Division have been notified: Sergeant O. H. Stapleton,…

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Attempt To Murder Wife Alleged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 10

TWEED HEADS, Thursday.—A man was charged in Tweed Heads Court to-day with having unlawfully wounded his wife yesterday with…

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Girl Gets Bond for Theft of £2000 Brooch

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 3

BATHURST: Appearing for sentence at Bathurst Court to-day on a charge of having stolen a diamond brooch valued…

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Death Sentence For Murder Of Woman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. Justice Owen to-day sentenced Rex Llewellyn Flanagan to death for the murder of Mrs. Constance…

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Three To Stand Trial For Girl's Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The City Coroner to-day committed two men and a woman to stand trial for the murder of a girl, who, police…

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Police With Guns Disperse Peasants

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 3

MODENA (Italy), Friday (A.A.P.): With machine-guns blazing, police in jeeps last night smashed through road…

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Gave Wife £2000 In Divorce Court

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY: A Bondi taxi cab proprietor gave his wife £2000 in the Divorce Court today on condition that she did not sue…

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Newcastle Police Seek Man Who Attacked Girl (4)

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 3

A man, who allegedly assaulted a four-year-old girl near the greyhound racing track at Broadmeadow yesterday afternoon is being sought by a large squad of Newcastle detectives The child, it is alleged, was…

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Man's Arm As Exhibit In Court Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 3

BRISBANE, Thursday.—"It is my right arm," said Arthur Cox Lawson in Court to-day when shown an arm in a large jar…

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