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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 105

Youth Reprieved By Communist Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 6

LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R.).—Instead of being beheaded for distributing home-made anti-Russian leaflets and wounding a policeman with a knife, Hermann Flade, 18, of Dresden, will do 15 years' hard labor…

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Increased Police Supervision Sought For All Beaches

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 3

More vigorous police supervision of all Newcastle beaches was needed to stop the undesirable behavior of some people, particularly after dark, Aid. E. A. Terry said today…

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Playboy Fit To Meet Comic Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 16

SYDNEY.—Playboy should be in good trim for his clash with Comic Court in the St. George Stakes at Caulfield on Feb. 17…

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Manager Keeps £30,000 Home: Claim In Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 10

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—It was claimed before the Registrar in Divorce (Mr. Loughan), in the Supreme Court to-day that Eric…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 8

USED MOTOR-CYCLE.—Two R.A.A.F. trainees were fined for having used a motor-cycle at Toronto on January 25, without the consent…

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Maitland Court Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 8

MIGRANT FINED.—Jonas Indriunas, of Mayfield Hostel, was fined £10 for having ridden a motorcycle while under the influence of…

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Gipsy Gaoled For Theft From Chinese

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A gipsy woman sobbed, moaned and screamed at Parramatta Quarter Sessions to-day when she was…

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Two Men Get Gaol For Snowdropping

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 4

It is, in my opinion, thieving of the most contemptible nature Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., said in Maitland Court today when he sentenced two men to imprisonment for "snowdropping."…

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Shearer to Face Murder Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Ronald Newman Cribbin, 21, was committed by the City Coroner (Mr. A. N. Bott) to-day for trial on a charge of having murdered Mrs. Edith Hill, 72, at her home in Macquarie-street,…

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Young Man Not Guilty Of Six Theft Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 9

Counsel for a 20-year-old youth said in Newcastle Quarter Sessions today that a firm's duty sheets showed that the…

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"Don't Send My Son To Gaol," Mother Pleads

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 10

"Please do not send my son to gaol; gaol does them no good, I know," Mrs. Catherine Skelly, of Chilcott-street, Lambton, said to…

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Police Boys Should Retain Lead

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 15

Police Boys is expected to maintain its position at the head of the C. and S. cricket points table when it meets…

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Punched By Police, Youth Claims

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 8

James William MacBean, 20, steelworker, alleged at Newcastle Sessions yesterday that he had been punched by police and had dictated…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 8

THEFTS AND VAGRANCY.—Colin Ferry Hardy, 20, was gaoled on four charges of theft and one of vagrancy. Police said Hardy had been sleeping…

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Cessnock Court Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 6

REMANDED.—Walter Frederick Stevenson, 39, Leo John Stevenson, 27, and William Henry Stevenson, 32, were charged with having…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Offered No Evidence

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 11

A charge of having goods suspected of being stolen in his possession was dismissed against Allan William Peter Greentree, 18, laborer, when…

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Gaol for Bank Theft Attempt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—A young man who attempted to rob a bank at Mascot was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions to-day to seven…

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Assault on Elderly Woman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 3

Sydney police are searching for a man, believed armed, who criminally assaulted a 74-year-old spinster at her home in Dalton, seven miles…

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Man Gaoled for Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 7

Robert William Wright, 27, fettler, was sentenced to six months' gaol by Judge O'Sullivan at Newcastle Sessions yesterday for having assaulted Kevin Ray Matthews at West Wallsend on December…

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S.M. Hits At Theft Of Clothing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 4

"Snowdropping" was most contemptible, Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., said at Maitland Court yesterday. He said this after he had…

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