Divorce Court
Before Judge O'Sullivan at Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday, Ernest Charles Morse, Manager, of Parkway-avenue, Hamilton, sought divorce…
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Courts & crime, 1951
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Insanity To Be Plea In Murder Trial
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Defence of a 21-year-old shearer charged with murder would be that he was insane at the time of the…
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SYDNEY: A 22-year-old soldier, charged with three counts of arson, and his mother sat together sobbing in the Coroner's Court today. A detective said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Equity Court Gives Aunt Custody of Stockton Child
SYDNEY: Custody of a girl aged five, whose father is serving seven years' gaol for manslaughter of the child's mother, was granted by Mr. Justice Roper in the Equity Court today to the dead…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
STOLE BULBS.—James Reston, 47, wharf labourer, was fined £5 and ordered to pay 4/ competition on a charge of having stolen two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Teralba Court (Before Mr. F R. Wood. S.m.) Remanded
A remand to May 17 on £20 Dan was granted Wilier Menzie Reid (43), mechanic, who is charged with having in the custody of John…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Norman Edwin Bradshaw, 25, caterer, of South Melbourne, was charged in the city watchhouse early…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A detective told in the Police Court to-day how, while working under orders, he helped two brothers…
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SYDNEY: A Croydon Park (Sydney) couple are now preparing a home for for their five-year-old…
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Fireworks, cameras, clothing, pocket knives, bicycles, cosmetics, a fountain pen, and an 110-volt electric drill are among the goods…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.— A Criminal Court trial was stopped to-day after a constable gave evidence that a juryman had said he…
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OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR: — John Mitchell, 28, labourer, was fined £5 for having behaved offensively in Hunter-street on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Indecent Behavior
James Campbell Murdoch (29), laborer, and Cyril Valentino White (30), carpenter, were each fined £1 for indecent behavior in Keightley…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — A 54-year-old man has been charged with the attempted murder to-day of a 21-year-old woman…
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SYDNEY:—A 56-year-old man who was alleged to have assaulted a young woman with a tomahawk last night,…
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INDECENT BEHAVIOUR. — James Campbell Murdoch, 29, labourer, and Cyril Valentine White, 30, carpenter, were each fined £1 for having…
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BURNIE: John Joseph McDonald, 46, bookmaker and former member of the Tasmanian House of…
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SYDNEY: Out of infatuation for a young married woman, a 26-year-old milk carter had killed her husband in the hope that he would have her for himself, the Crown claimed in Central Criminal Court today. Raymond John Cupit, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Drove Under Influence
A dental mechanic, Albert Rhys Morgan, was fined £15 for driving a car under the influence of intoxicating liquor in Hunter St. on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broadmeadow Theft
Detectives Williams and Pritchard are Investigating the theft of clothing valued at £20 from the home of Mr. H…
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