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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 105

Police Seize Jewellery

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

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Detectives to-day took possession of jewellery worth £1000 in a suitcase at Central railway station…

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2½ Years' Gaol For False Sale Of Holden

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

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Judge Curlewis sentenced Edward David Smee, 30, of Crow's Nest, to 2½ years' gaol for having obtained…

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Ex-police Inspector Deplores Gambling

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

Mr. R. McLeay, a former inspector of police, was guest speaker at the first monthly meeting of Park-street Methodist Brotherhood,…

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Purtell-Comic Court Association Break

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 8

MELBOURNE: Victoria's leading jockey Jack Purtell will end his association with Comic Court after he rides the horse in the C. F. Orr Stakes at Moonee Valley next Saturday…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 6

DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when David William Spencer, 50, enginedriver, was charged with having driven a car…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwirke, S.m.) Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 3

Allan Gibson Brown, 33, fitter; George Albert Portous 39, laborer; James MacAuley, 25, cellarman, and William McArthur Bradley. 31…

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3 Remanded On Jewel Theft Charges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 4

GOULBURN, Wednesday.—A man and two women were remanded at Goulburn Court to-day till March 5, on charges of…

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Assault With Pepper In Taxi Alleged

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 13

LONDON.—A policeman described at Blackpool how he saw a building: contractor wandering dazed along the promenade…

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2 Men Gaoled; Beer Theft And Receiving

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

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Two men were sentenced at Central Court to-day to six months' gaol over the theft of beer, the property…

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Put Matches In Wife's Hair; Gaol Sentence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A woman said at Burwood Court to-day that her husband chased her through the house last night and…

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4 Men Charged; £2000 Goods Believed Stolen

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Four young men appeared at Liverpool Court to-day on 16 charges involving the theft of goods valued…

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Compensation Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 4

The first sitting of the Workers' Compensation Commission for 1951 will begin at Newcastle Courthouse on March 13…

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Ex-M.H.A. To Face Murder Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 3

HOBART, Wednesday.—John Joseph McDonald, 46, bookmaker, of Burnie, and a former member of the House of Assembly, was…

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Ex-Serviceman Before Japanese Court

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 3

1OKIO, Thurs. (A.A.P.. Reuter).-Australian ex-service-man Kenneth William Gibbons, already deported once from Japan for entering illegally to see his Japanese wife and child, yesterday had his trial for ille-eral entrv adiourned…

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Injured Man Put On Road, Police Allege

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 4

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—Two miners had carried an injured man into the path of heavy traffic to make it appear that his injuries…

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Comic Court Ready For Orr Stakes

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 16

MELBOURNE: Comic Court. favorite for next Saturday's C. F. Orr Stakes, galloped impressively without being fully…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 4

REMANDED.—Edward Matthew Newburn, 18, labourer, was remanded till February 14 on a charge of having received motor-cycle parts,…

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K.C. Says Promise To Court Broken (Continued From Page 1)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY: Continuing his address in the Federal Arbitration Court, Mr. Barwick said that the three miners' leaders were participating in the present stoppage in breach of undertakings given to the court in 1949. This was being done to en-…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. See. S.m.) Forfeited Ball

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 12

When he failed to appear on a charge of indecent behavior in Wolfe St. last night, Evan Edward Grlbble (34), seaman, forfeited his bail…

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Bombadier Faces Murder Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 3

SINGAPORE, Feb. 8. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Bombadier John Stewart, 26, was charged in the Malacca Assizes to-day with having murdered…

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