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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 105

Stop Press Moorefield Races Flying Handicap Skip Court Carceres Goldak Third Test

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 8

England, first innings: Total 290. Bowling: Lindwall 2/60, Miller 4/37, I. Johnson 3/94, W. Johnston 0/50, Iverson 0/25, Loxton 0/12. Australia,…

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Taxi-Driver Charged With Theft Of Safe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A taxi-driver was charged to-day with having stolen a safe containing £170 from the Tatler Hotel, George-street, at…

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Cessnock Bowling Club Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 7

About 18 gallons of beer and keg fittings valued at £9 10s were stolen from Cessnock Bowling Club's temporary…

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Inquest Opens On Murder Of Taxi-Driver

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 3

BATHURST: An inquest into the death of a taxi-driver, Norman Cecil Dickson, 36, found shot in his overturned cab near here on Dec. 19, was opened today by Mr. K. M. Dash, S.M., and present in…

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No Homes—so Police Resign

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 3

LONDON.—The Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Ede, in a written reply, gave figures of resignations from X Division of the…

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Police Search For Missing Hotel Safe

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Police have not yet recovered a safe containing about £150 which was stolen from the Tatler Hotel,…

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Maitland Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 2

Charged with breaking and entering the dwelling of Frederick Holyoake Chamberlain of Bourke-st., Maitland, on or about Dec. 22…

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Girl Tells The Court She Will Give A Man Up

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 1

LONDON.—An attractive 20-year-old canteen assistant told Reading magistrates she was willing to give up a man…

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Former Constable on Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 4

DARWIN, Monday.—A former Northern Territory police constable, Donald James MacFarlane, 31, was committed for trial to-day…

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Taximan Murder Case Young Man Sent for Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 6

BATHURST, Monday.—Ronald Newman Cribben, 21, shearer, was committed for trial by Mr. K. M. Dash, S.M., at an inquest at Bathurst Coroner's Court to-day, on a charge of having murdered a…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 6

BETTING.—Seven men were fined a total of £185 for betting offences on Saturday. Sydney Buckland Morgan, 50,…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 7

A 23-year-old rigger, Noel Vincent Gallagher, was remanded until Jan. 18 on £100 bail on a charge ol breaking and entering the house of…

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Murder Confession Alleged

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tuesday (AAP-Reuter): A house-painter had confessed to the "Brooklyn torso"…

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Laborer On Seven Charges Of Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 2

A young laborer appeared in Newcastle Court today on seven counts of breaking, entering and stealing in the Adamstown…

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Duty Charged On New Drug

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE.—Australian doctors have paid hundreds of pounds in duty on supplies of the new arthritis drug,…

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Rosy Has Sailed Back To Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 2

LONDON: Redheaded Rosy Pooley, 24, London girl who forgot what time her sailor boy friend's ship left and was taken…

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Abolition Of Poll Court Urged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 7

If the Government dispensed with the "archaic system" of Revision Courts, there was no reason why municipal and shire rolls…

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Court Told Priest Made Church Arrests

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two youths who went to steal offerings from an Ashfield church yesterday were arrested by a parish priest, police…

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Newcastle Court. Before Mr. R. A. HARDWICKE, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 9

RAILWAY THEFT.—John Thomas McElhenny, 34, labourer, was fined £10 for having, at Newcastle, between June 1 and December 31,…

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Nun Charged With Murder Fasts In Gaol "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 1

ATHENS, Jan. 10.—A candle, flickering before a small ikon, shone through the bars of a cell in an Athens prison…

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