Union Request To Police On Seamen Held Up
Police Superintendent Wiley will be asked by Newcastle Trades Hall Council to receive a deputation to discuss the plight of seamen whose…
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Courts & crime, 1950
2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 63 of 136
Loss of £1000 Mink Coat Reported to Police
SYDNEY.—A Rose Bay woman has reported the loss of a £1000 mink coat to the police. Miss Amelia Brown told detectives that she left the coat in a carriage while transferring from a derailed train to a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Allegation That Police Bashed Him After His Arrest
A man who is alleged to have admitted he was a Communist accused the police in Newcastle Court today of bash ing him after his arrest on Monday morning. In cross-examination he al-…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED.—Donald Burt, 23, labourer, was charged with having broken into the store of the Australian Optical Company,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Youth Claims Damages For Assault
SYDNEY, Friday.—John Attard, 19, Byrne-street, Auburn, alleged in the District Court to-day that while visiting his father, a leper, in Prince…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Six Months' Gaol for Receiver
SYDNEY, Friday.—Harry Cox, 23, of Gordon-street, Paddington, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at Paddington Court…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Roy Maxwell Ralston, 22, woodcarter, of Norton-street, Wangaratta, was sentenced to eight years' gaol by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Squatters' In Malaya Under Police Guard
SINGAPORE, Sat. (A.A.P.-Reuter) : Thousands of Chinese "squatters" in South Johore are being rounded up and placed under police guard each night during the new anti-terrorist drive in the area…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Bashed Him, Says Slogan Painter
Jack Williams, 35, painter, of Lambton-road, New Lambton, who said he was a member of the Communist Party, accused police in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Orders Liberation Of Opossum
The liberation of an opossum, produced in a case at Belmont Court as an exhibit, was ordered by Mr. A. R. Reschke, S.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Chief Censured Over Deaths Of 21 Natives
LONDON, Sat.-(A.A.P.): A commission of inquiry at Enugu, in the British colony of Nigeria, severely criticised the police chief who ordered a shooting in which 21 natives were killed and 51 wounded. The men killed were strikers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court To Sit To-day In Wounding Case
SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Justice Herron will conclude his summing up to-morrow morning in the case in which Darcy Dugan, 27, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
SEAMAN FINED.—James Cartwright, 20, seaman of the steamer Iron Master was fined 30/ for having behaved indecently in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mineleaders To Meet On Gaol "Threats"
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The executive of the Miners' Federation will meet on Tuesday to consider what the federation's President (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Charged After Children Hurt in Street
SYDNEY, Sunday.—A man was charged at Newtown Police Station early this morning after two children had been knocked down and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Search River For Body
WAUCHOPE.—Police are still searching for the body of an elderly man, believed to have been drowned when his…
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BRISBANE. — Three C.I.B, detectives were injured when a patrol car in which they were travelling crashed into an…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Search For Boy Missing A Year
AUCKLAND, June 11. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Police are still searching for a half-caste Maori boy, Leslie Shortcliffe, 6, who has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →League Players Get Beds In Police Stations
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Twenty Newcastle footballers who arrived in Sydney after 11 o'clock to-night to see the League Test to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wife Charged
SYDNEY, Monday.—Marjorie Robinson, 34, of Jannali, appeared in Central Court to-day on a charge of having shot at her husband,…
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