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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 26 of 105

Allowance Paid For Police Cat

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 12

COLOMBO. — The Ceylon Government pays a subsistence allowance of Rs10 (about £A1) to a cat employed by the…

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East German Police Fire On Tourists

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 5

BERLIN, Thurs. (A.A.P.).— East German police yesterday fired several shots at five U.S. Army buses, loaded with…

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Police Aid Sought To Stop Vandalism

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 3

Police In the Newcastle district are to be asked by the Wallsend 6P Panel (panel to protect and promote pride in…

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Court Tells Women To Resume

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 2

The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission in Sydney yesterday ordered the Federated Ironworkers' Association of Australia (N.S.W…

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Maitland Court Before Mr. F. R. WOOD, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 4

GAOLED FOR STEALING.—For having stolen a towel and glass, valued at 4/, the property of the Commissioner for Railways, and…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 6

REMANDED.—James Dornan Paterson, 22, engineer, was remanded till April 23, on a charge of having stolen, in Newcastle, on December 26,…

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£4 Theft By Ex-Constable

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 March 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—A dismissed constable was fined £10 in Central Court to-day for having stolen £4 from a Ukrainian migrant, Mitrofan…

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Drug Blamed For Theft "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 March 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK, March 29.—The drug cortisone when combined with liquor might cause a temporary change in a patient's personality,…

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Insult To The Pope Alleged; Italian Woman Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 March 1951 · page 1

CHIETI (Italy) Fri. (A.A.P.): Communist Deputy, Laura Diaz, "glamor girl" of the Italian Parliament, will be charged today with insulting the Pope. The charge is unprecedented in the nation's parliamentary…

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For Trial On Charge Of Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 March 1951 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Edward Joseph Scully, 52, chef, this afternoon was committed for trial on a murder charge…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 March 1951 · page 8

REMANDED.—James William Hall, 23, soldier, was remanded till April 12, on £40 bail, on charge of having obtained £5 from Bernard John…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m.) Indecent Language

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 March 1951 · page 7

John Thomas Kerreira. 24, bus conductor, was fined £1 for using indecent language on March 29. Constable Fairfull said there was…

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Detectives Charged Over Smuggling

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 5

BERLIN, Sat. (A.A.P.). — West Berlin police, investigating a huge smuggling racket in jewels and foreign currencies,…

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Police Promotions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—Police Force promotions notified include— Sergeants third-class to be sergeants second-class: G. Wardley,…

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Five Students Charged Drowning "After Wild Party"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Friday.—Two hundred university students held a "wild chaotic and disorderly" gathering before an initiation ceremony at which a medical student was drowned, police alleged to-day…

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Court Reporter Commended

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 7

Mr. Gordon Smith, official shorthand reporter at the sitting of the Conciliation Committee in Newcastle yesterday, was commended by…

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Striking Women Rebuff Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 2

Striking women members of the Federated Ironworkers' Association decided yesterday against obeying the Industrial Commission's order…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 7

INDECENT LANGUAGE.—John Thomas Fereira, 24, bus Conductor, was fined £2 for having used indecent language in Hunter-street…

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Killed Fowl, Fined For Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 April 1951 · page 1

A man who shot a neighbor's fowl, which had been disturbing his garden, was fined £3 in default six days' gaol on a…

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Men Charged With "Series Of Offences"

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 April 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Two men charged with a series of offences including an armed hold-up early…

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