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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 105

Six Years' Gaol For Having Shot Neighbour

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

SYDNEY, Friday.—A father who shot his neighbour because he suspected him of having interfered with his seven-year-old daughter…

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Fined £32,000, 5 Years' Gaol for U.s. Major

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 2

HEIDELBERG (Germany) Sat. (A.A.P.).—A U.S. Army court martial yesterday sentenced Major Harold D…

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Comic Court Has Severe Autumn Campaign

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 6

MELBOURNE: Comic Court, who heads the list of present-day stake winners in Australia with £42,542, has a severe autumn campaign ahead in Melbourne and Sydney. If he were to win the seven…

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

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

STOLE PARTS.—John Horace Roberts, 18, labourer, was placed on a bond of £10 for 12 months on each of two charges of having stolen,…

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Court Approach on Crisis Federal Action On Mine Stoppages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 1

The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) yesterday instructed the Federal Government's legal advisers to apply for a special sitting of the Arbitration Court to deal with the coal crisis…

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Shot His Wife In Court But Didn't Know Why

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Fri. (O.S.R.).—Harry Starr (39), of New York, heard a judge direct that he be sent to hospital for mental observation. As he walked out of court with his wife, Starr pulled…

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Magistrate Warns Hoodlums

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY.—The courts would protect police from hoodlums, Mr. Debenham, S.M., warned in Redfern Court today…

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LETTERS To the Editor Swansea Police Area

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

The area known as the "School Park" has been a police reserve for 65 years. For that time residents and councillors have…

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Cars Are Not Stolen By Gang, Say Police

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 2

Police do not believe that any organised gang of car-strippers, such as those operating in Sydney and Melbourne, is responsible for recent thefts of cars and car and motor cycle parts in Newcastle…

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17,000 Miners Idle; Court Summonses Likely Soon

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 1

While Federal authorities are planning to issue the first summonses against miners' leaders, more than 17,000 miners are idle in four States today in protest…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Distributed Horse Cards

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

For having distributed three placed horse cards on Friday, Percival Joseph Casey, 61, storeman. was fined a total of £20…

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Five Years' Gaol for Assault

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

SYDNEY, Monday.—At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Jack Allen Rowland, 24, labourer, was sentenced to five years' gaol for what…

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Police Official Murdered

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 1

SINGAPORE. Feb. 5. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The Assistant Commandant of the Singapore Special Constabulary (Abdul Rahman) was…

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Objection To Police Site At Swansea

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

Cr. Quinn, at Northumberland County Council meeting yesterday, objected to Police Department plans for a police station and residence at…

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Police In Japan "Soldiers" "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—Strongly influenced by General MacArthur and by events in neighbouring Korea, Japan is training a police…

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Suburban and District School Urges Police Aid For Traffic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 5

The Central Junior Technical Secondary School Parents and Citizens' Association should press its request to have a traffic policeman…

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

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

DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when Charles Frederick Mehrens. 24, boilermaker, was charged with having driven a car…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Harwicke, S.m.) Charge Dismissed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 6

A charge or having driven negligently in Maltlandrd., Tighe's Hill, on Nov. 26 against David William Spencer, 50, enginedriver, was…

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Murder Theory Abandoned

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

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A postmortem examination revealed today that a man whose body was recovered from Sydney Harbour,…

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2 Years' Gaol For Housebreaker

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Women alone in their homes had to be protected from terrorisation by young housebreakers, said Judge…

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