Police Auction on May 27
Unclaimed property will be sold at the annual police auction sale on May 27, at 10 a.m., at the Newcastle Police…
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Courts & crime, 1950
2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 136
Six Police Killed in Ambush
SINGAPORE, May 15. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Six of a police jungle squad were killed when terrorists ambushed the patrol just inside Thai territory. SINGAPORE, May 15…
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Five bicycles, some in extremely good order, are listed for the police sale at Maitland on Saturday week. May 27, at…
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PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad), Mon. (A.A.P.): Police here believe that pirates are looting vessels in the Caribbean, killing the crews and weighting the bodies with iron b ars before dumping them into the sea…
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SYDNEY, Monday—Officials of four Interstate branches of the Federated Clerks' Union to-day asked the Full Arbitration Court…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—The hearing opened to-day in the Bankruptcy Court of an application to declare void a settlement made by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
DISCHARGED.—Darcy Edwards, 65, pensioner, was admonished and discharged on a charge of having begged alms in Scott-street…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cessnock Court (Before Mr. P. R. Wood. S.m.) Dangerous Driving
For having ridden a motor cycle dangerously in Vincent St., Cessnock, on the night of Jan. 13. Victor James Byrne, of Kilaben Bay, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Failed to Give Way
For having railed to give way In a motor lorry to a bicycle on his right at the intersection of Hannell and Albert Sts., Wickham, on Dec. 2,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£40 Theft From Shire Shed
Tools and material valued at £40, the property of Lake Macquarie Shire Council, were stolen from the works shed at Barnsley…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At Liverpool Court to-day, Reginald George Lynch, 23, was remanded till May 30 on a charge of having murdered…
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Mr. Hardwicke. S.M., in Newcastle Court today granted a request by Detective-constable Duffell to remand Walter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Delay In Providing Road Signs Criticised
"It looks as if you will have to kill a couple off before they take any notice," Ald. Scott-Daisley told Newcastle Health Committee last night, referring to delays in obtaining "One-way Traffic" signs from the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.)
REMANDED.—Colin Smith, 25, labourer, was remanded till June 20 on £15 bail on a charge of having stolen £7/15/, a purse and four keys…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Raschke.) Fined for Parking
For having parked his car in a prohibited area in Newcastle William George Winter of Union Lane. Newcastle, was fined 10s with 10s…
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LONDON: Eighty-two-year-old Charles Skinner cooked supper for himself at his bungalow in South Munstead Lane,…
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NEW YORK, May 17.—Offenders in Sydney, Novo Scotia, have to wait in line for gaol space…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A man was detained at Yallourn to-night for questioning on the murder of Carmen Walters, 19, of…
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MELBOURNE: A 23-years-old clerk whom the police said was the former fiance of the dead girl, was today charged in the City Court with having murdered Carmen Walters, 19, at East…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Water Police Rescue Boys In Harbour
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Water police to-day rescued five schoolboys whose 12ft. sailing skiff capsized a mile from Balmoral Beach…
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