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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 136

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 5

PLACED ON BOND.—George William Harris, 43, manager, was admitted to a bond of £20, to be of good behaviour for 12 months, and…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Adulterated Milk

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 January 1950 · page 9

Horace W. Charker, of Wilkinson St., Mayfield, was fined £2 with 10s costs in each case, when he pleaded guilty to two charges of…

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Extensive Tax Theft Alleged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Three men and a woman had been spending up to £15 a day in taxis trying to cash stolen taxation…

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Gaol Escapees Took Revenge On Negroes "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Three white men who believed they had been turned over to the police by a negro family in Mississippi took…

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Boy Starved To Death; Murder Charge Follows

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 11. A.A.P.—The parents of a boy of three, who died of starvation, have been charged with murder…

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Commissioner Asks For More Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A request to strengthen the New South Wales Police Force by at least 100 men was received to-day by the…

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Melb. Has Four Murder Charges In Four Days

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE: Two men charged with murder—making four in two days —appeared in the City…

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Police Unable to Interview Injured Man

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

The condition of Noel O'Connor, 29, of Hish-st., Maitland, who was found injured alongside the railway line near North…

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Bedside Court Makes History In Compensation Claim

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY: In the bedroom of a little cottage in Highland-ave., Bnaktown, yesterday afternoon, a judge, solicitors, shorthand writer and pressman sat around the bed of a dangerously ill man to hear his evidence in a workers' compensation claim…

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Backing For Skip Court In Double Sydney Correspondent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Expecting a forward showing by Skip Court in next Saturday's Sefton Handicap at Randwick, punters…

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Teralba Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood. S.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 2

This kind, of offence is inexcusable." said Mr. wood when Alfred Whittier (40) laborer, pleaded guilty to indecency in Speers Point Park…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 4

FOR TRIAL.—Arthur Roy Mowle, 33, labourer, and Walter Winsor, 40, labourer, were committed for trial at Newcastle Quarter Sessions on…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. M. J. D. Austin, S.m.) Used Bottles in Fight

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 January 1950 · page 14

Four seamen fighting on a block of vacant land near Wharf Rd., Newcastle, last night, struck each other with bottles and fists and kicked…

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Estate Agent's Gaol Term Reduced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Milton Henry Todd, estate agent, as a result of a Court of Criminal Appeal decision to-day, will serve…

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Speeding Motor Cyclist Warned By Magistrate

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 9

A motor cyclist who pleaded guilty at Maitland Court today to speeding and causing undue noise, was told by Mr. F. R…

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Remanded Under Police Escort

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 3

BRISBANE.—Mr. Mansell, S.M., to-day ordered Patrick William Burke (24), clerk, to be returned to New South…

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Police Search For Pensioner's Robbers

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 3

Detectives from Newcastle to-day continued their search for three men who robbed an old-aged pensioner in his bush but at Rhondda early yesterday morning. The victim, Adam Adams…

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More Police Needed "For Road Problem"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—No real impact would be made on the road problem till the police patrol force was considerably increased, the…

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Police Boys' Bowler Has Unique Batting Record

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 12

Mick Jones, Polite Boys' fast bowler, is only fourth in his team's bowling averages, but in the batting he has been seven times not out in as many innings and has an aggregate of 128…

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Police Made Prompt Use Of New Pistols

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 January 1950 · page 1

TOKYO, January 12. A.A.P.-Reuter.—All members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police were issued with sidearms yesterday…

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