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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 136

Police Say Key Defence Witness Does Not Exist

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 June 1950 · page 2

Police investigations had revealed that the key witness, named for the defence of three men charged with illegally…

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Court Asked to Define Meaning of "Basic Wage"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 June 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Mr. P. D. Phillips, K.C, counsel for the A.C.T.U. in the basic wage case, today asked the Full Arbitration Court to define the precise meaning of the term "basic wage."…

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Cessnock Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood. S.m.) Indecent Language

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 June 1950 · page 3

A father and son were each fined for having used indecent language at their home at Kitchener yesterday…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 June 1950 · page 10

Failing to appear on a charge of having behaved indecently in Merewether St., Mcrewether, fitanley Broadbent, 34, laborer, forfeited bail…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. It. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Assault Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 3

When the Police Prosecutor (Sergt. E. G. Kingi said a witness was still in hospital, the Magistrate remanded Bruce McDonald Lanagan (26…

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Theft Of Jeep Is Alleged

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 4

A man who is alleged to have stolen a jeep valued at £500 from Consoliated Press Ltd. and sold it to Maitland Council was…

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Three Youths On Murder Charges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, June 13. A.A.P.— Murder charges were filed in Noblesville (Indiana) yesterday against three youths who, the police…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 8

Ten more undefended petitions were heard by Judge O'Sullivan at Newcastle District Court yesterday. TUTT v TUTT…

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Japanese Loses Court Composure

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 3

LOS NEGROS, June 13. A.A.P.-Reuter.— Four vital words that had been omitted several times during evidence-in-chief were added to the text of the signal he said he had received…

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Court Asked For Basic Wage Definition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—For the second time since the opening of the £10 basic wage case more than a year ago the Full…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 8

ILLEGAL BETTING.—Although those who took illegal bets came before the Courts those who made illegal bets were not penalised by…

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£170 Goods Theft At Swansea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 2

Goods valued at £170, the property of the Goldfields Diamond Drilling Company, of Beaumont-street, Hamilton, have been stolen…

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Theft At Stanwell Park Station

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The booking office at Stanwell Park railway station was entered to-day and £13/14/3 in cash stolen…

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Spent 38 Years In Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 3

LONDON: Sentence of seven years' preventive detention was passed at East Sussex Quarter Sessions at Lewes on John…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 8

Nine undefended divorce petitions were heard by Judge O'Sullivan at Newcastle Courthouse yesterday…

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Police Keep Eye In

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 1

Police from Newcastle and suburban stations attended Adamstown rifle range for periodical instruction in the…

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Court Argues On Vinegar

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 3

LONDON.—Joseph Kat, trading as the Premier Pickle Company, Holly-st., Hackney, was summoned at Bow-st. by the…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 8

REMANDED.—Bruce McDonald Lanagan, 26, labourer, charged with having assaulted Harold Giloert, occasioning bodily harm, at Islington…

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Gaol Order For Bankrupt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. Justice Clyne, in the Bankruptcy Court to-day, made an order committing a bankrupt to gaol for…

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Germans Sentenced; But Appeal Likely

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 June 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Two former members of the Luftwaffe and the Hitler Youth League to-day were sentenced at the City…

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