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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 19 of 105

Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. B. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Betting Offenders

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 3

Raymond Anthony Jennings, [?] clerk, and John Smith, 45, laborer, were each lined £2 for street betting…

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Maitland Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m.) Fought at Show

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 7

Robert George Campbell, 42 printer, of Phn[?]ers St.. East Maitland, was fined 10s for offensive behavior at Maitland Show…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. See. S.m.) After Hours Sale

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 2

For suppying liquor after hours on Nov. 11, Jonathan Henderson, of the Locomotive Hotel, Newcastle, was [?]ned £2 with 18s costs…

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New Police Superintendent

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

Newcastle's new Superintendent of police (Mr. J. W. E. Swasbrick) (left), yesterday with the former Superintendent, Mr. W. E. Salmon, on the inspection of Newcastle police headquarters…

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Police Seek Owner of Lost Money

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1951 · page 4

Money found in a street last week is being held by Maitland police for the owner. Sergeant D. C. Yardy said the…

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Roach Will Appeal To High Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 March 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY: Counsel for the watersiders' Assistant General Secretary, Edward Charles Roach, who was sentenced to…

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

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

DRIVERS FINED.—Gordon Harold Preston, 38, painter, was fine £20 for having driven a car in Darling-street, Hamilton, on February 24…

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

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

BOND FOR MIGRANT.—Without the Magistrate proceeding to conviction. Stanislaw Potyrala, 28, steel-worker, of Mayfield Migrant Hostel,…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 March 1951 · page 3

A 57-year-old laborer, John Lewis, was given a suspended sentence of one month's imprisonment and ordered to enter into a £10 bond to…

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Teeth-marks In Chocolate Got Him Two Years' Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 March 1951 · page 3

LONDON Wed. (A.A.P.).—Teeth-marks in a bar of chocolate sent an Irishman to gaol for two years at Birmingham yesterday. Creany Laverty (29) was charged with breaking into an…

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Police Boys's Backetball Teams Clash

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 March 1951 · page 12

Police Boys Club's No. 1 and No. 2 teams, last year's finalists, are to oppose one another again in the…

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High Court Says Union Fine Wrong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 March 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—In a reserved decision, the Full High Court to-day held that the Arbitration Court should not have…

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

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

VAGRANCY.—John Lewis, 57. labourer, was sentenced to a month imprisonment for vagrancy at Hamilton. The sentence was suspended on…

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Wallsend Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood. S.m.) Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 March 1951 · page 3

A remand to April 21 was granted Keijn Claude Newman, 21, laborer, who was charged with, on Feb. 24, having damaged two doors and seven…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. B. A. Hordwicke, S.m.) Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 March 1951 · page 3

On charge of driving under the influence of liquor, driving negilgently and failing to produce his licence Cleland Benjamin Baker…

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Three Charged: Gave Russia Atom Secrets

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

NEW YORK. March 7. A.A.P.—Two men and a woman went on trial yesterday on charges of having conspired to commit espionage…

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Police Farewell Superintendent

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 2

Officers and men of North-eastern Police Division yesterday fare welled Superintendent W. E. Salmon, who has been transferred…

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Police Chiefs Entertained

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 7

OFFICERS AND MEN of the North-Eastern Police Division yesterday farewelled Superintendent W. E. Salmon, who has been transferred from Newcastle to Sydney. Mr. J. W. Swasbrick, who has been appointed his successor, was welcomed. Prominent police officers from the Newcastle, Cessnock and Maitland Divisions, uniformed police,…

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Q'land Elected Chief Charged With Fraud

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 2

BRISBANE: Bernard Joseph Maguire, 54, Chief State Electoral Officer, was arrested and charged today with falsifying a ballot paper for the Bulimba electorate in last year's State election. The arrest of Maguire…

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Death Sentence For Murder Of Guard

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 3

WASHINGTON, Wed. (AAP)—Oscar Collazo, the 37-year-old Puerto Rican Nationalist who shot a White House guard…

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