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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 46 of 136

Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Indecent Behavior

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 10

Charged with Indecent behavior in Hunter-st. last night, William James Courtney, 23, laborer, was fined £2. Donald Keith Melville, 18, seaman,…

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Cigarettes Charged With Marihuana

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Customs officers found 22 cigarettes containing marihuana in the washroom of the United States Army…

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Man Gaoled For Wallet Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 3

LONDON.—Samuel Abery, aged 26, tilers' mate, of King's rd., Reading, was gaoled for a month at Reading for stealing…

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Sensational Sequels To French Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 3

PARIS, Sat. (O.S.R.) : Events as sensational as any in an Oppenheim thriller have followed the discovery of the body of a young woman in a packing case, floating on a lake in Toulouse, South of France…

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Police Boys Basketball

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 5

The following 21 players have been selected to attend practice at the Police Boys' Club at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, to decide the…

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Police Seek Driver

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 4

Newcastle police are anxious to communicate with the driver of an old model dark car who assisted a cyclist who had been involved in an…

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More Petrol For Wallsend Police Sought

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 6

Wallsend Chamber of Commerce will protest to the Commissioner of Police on the inadequate petrol ration allowed to Wallsend police…

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Four Shot Dead In Police Clash

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 4

MADRAS, Sat. (A.A.P.).—Police shot and killed four "wanted Communists" yesterday in a clash in a village in…

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Students And Police Clash In New York

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 5

NEW YORK, Fri. (A.A.P.): Mounted and foot police today broke up an attempted march on the City Hall by several hundred high school students. The students began demon-…

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Patrol By U.S. Police In Berlin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 3

Berlin people in the American zone see United States police on the move during a special riot control exercise. The exercise…

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Court To Hear Overtime Ban Case In Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Friday. — In the Federal Arbitration Court to-day an application by unions was granted for the interstate overtime ban…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 13

BAIL FORFEITED.— Donald Keith Melville, 18, seaman, failed to answer a charge of indecent behaviour in view of Hunter-street. His £3 bail…

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Police Charge Barrister With Murder

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

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—James Raymond Augustine O'Keefe, barrister, of Melbourne, was charged to-day with the murder of his wife,…

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Gaol Sentences in Spy Trial

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

PRAGUE, April 30. A.A.P.—Prague Radio announced that a former employee of the British Information Service in Bucharest had…

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Police Charge In Demonstration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 4

Police, with drawn truncheons, charge a crowd of demonstrators at a nationalised aircraft engine works in Paris. These police…

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Thai Police Arrest Engineer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 3

BANGKOK, April 30. A.A.P.—The Thai police have arrested a Norwegian marine engineer and five of the Chinese crew members…

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Police Searching For Missing Migrant

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY.—Police are searching for an ex-soldier immigrant. Jack Sutton. 37, who has been missing from his home in…

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Czech Monks Under Police Guard

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 3

VIENNA, Monday (A.A.P.): Refugees from Prague say that "concentration monasteries" have been established…

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Police Look for Lottery Winner

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY. — An intensive State-wide search for Helen McKeon, (16), process worker of Dover-road, Botany, is still being carried on. On Saturday the girl collected her fifth share in a second prize of £1000 in…

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4 Communists Shot By Madras Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 3

MADRAS, April 30. A.A.P.—Police shot and killed four "wanted communists" in a clash in a village in the Krishna Krishna district…

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