Suicide Pact Failed, Police Allege
SINGAPORE, April 25. A.A.P.-Reuter.—An unnamed British soldier was stated in Kuala Lumpur Court to-day to have made a suicide…
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Courts & crime, 1950
2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 45 of 136
Youth Attacked Aged Man, Police Allege
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A youth had hit an 82-year-old pensioner on the head several times with a bottle, police said at Central Court to-day…
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The Lord Mayor (Aid. Quinlan) will ask the Commissioner of Police in Sydney today, to station a police officer permanently in the Lambton area. At present the resident constable is attached to the Adamstown police station. Replying to an earlier…
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CANBERRA: The Commonwealth Government is likely to ask for police reinforcements from Sydney and elsewhere to assist in preventing a Communist demonstration at Parliament House tomorrow against the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Indecent Language
On a charge of having used indent language in Hunter-st. West on April 24, James Douglas Haig Bradley, 31, laborer, was admonished and…
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Patrick James Medlam, 23. of Queen-st., Rutherford, was remanded to appear next Tuesday on a charge of having at Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Counsel Says Client Should Go To Gaol
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Counsel for a former college student said in the Quarter Sessions to-day that his client had stolen from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Work At Night "Trying" For Gaol Warders
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Long Bay gaol warder told the Industrial Commission to-day that night work was so trying warders…
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PERTH, Wednesday.—Police alleged in Court to-day that an Italian woman had admitted having. put her husband to sleep with…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Stand by in Canberra Communists Say Visit "Peaceful"
The entire Canberra police force has been instructed to stand by to-day, when about 250 people, led by Communists, will visit the capital, primarily to oppose the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
TOOK A JEEP.—James Cronin Maloney, 39, labourer, was fined £15 for having taken and used a jeep without the consent of Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Court (Before Mr. V. R. Jenkins, J.p.) Indecent Language
Thomas McMahon, 34. and John O'Halloran, 42, were each fined £5 on charges of indecent language, and £1 on a drunkenness charge…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Begged Alms
Ronald MacDonald, 44, laborer, was sentenced to three months' hard labor for begging alms in Hunter-st. last night…
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Douglas Thompson, 26, labourer, was committed for trial at Newcastle Sessions on May 30, when charged in Newcastle Court…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Giving evidence before the Industrial Commission to-day, a Long Bay Gaol warder said that two years ago a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Another Remand On Murder Charge
SYDNEY—At Liverpool Court today Reginald John Lynch (24) was further remanded until May 16 on a charge of…
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LONDON, April 27. A.A.P.— Four Manchester police constables, two of them women, have been sacked for alleged gossiping while…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Station For New Lambton
The Police Department, which had chosen a site for a new police station at New Lambton, was awaiting the transfer of the deeds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
BEGGED ALMS.—Ronald MacDonald, 44, labourer, was sentenced to three months' imprisonmen for having begged aims in Hunter-street…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Belmont Court (Before Mr. A. R. Raschke. S.m.) Fined for Betting
Mervyn Thomas Hoare (40) was lined £10 on n charge of illegal betting in premises in Evans St., Belmont, on April 22…
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