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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 105

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

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 May 1951 · page 3

Stanley Harrison, 27 laborer, was remanded until May 22 on a charge of receiving an £800 car about Feo. 25, well knowing it to have been…

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Explosives Theft From Colliery

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 3

The danger attendant on the theft of detonators and blasting powder from Wallamain colliery, if it has fallen into the…

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Six Months For Stealing From Car

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 6

Allan Porter, 21, labourer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Mr. T. H. D. See, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday for…

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Police Make Many Arrests

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY: Police arrested 10 men and youths in city and suburbs during the night on charges of breaking and…

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Police Get Two New Launches

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 5

Two new motor launches are being brought from Sydney to-day to be put into service at Newcastle and Tea Gardens…

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Court Officer For Raymond Terrace

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 4

An officer of Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions will go to Raymond Terrace once a week, beginning the first week in June…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1951 · page 4

REMANDED.—Raymond Flanagan, 40, wharf labourer, was remanded till June 4 on charges of having ridden a motor-cycle in Clyde-street,…

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Pole Charged With Intent To Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 May 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— A 37-year-old Polish migrant was charged before a special Court today with having wounded his wife…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Sent to Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 May 1951 · page 11

Ernest Sara, 52, laborer, was sent to gaol for two months on a charge of vagrancy. OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOR…

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2 Police Launches For North

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 May 1951 · page 2

Two new launches built in Sydney were delivered to Newcastle water police yesterday. One will be sent to Tea…

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Wrongdoers Give Police Busy Night

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 May 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday. —Seven men and three youths were arrested in the city and suburbs last night on various charges of…

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Court At Kurri (Before Mr. F. R. Wood. S.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 May 1951 · page 2

Harold Anthony, 21, of Aberdurest. Pelaw Main, pleaded guilty to charges of driving a motor vehicle in Grafton-st., Abermaln, on Mar…

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Man Charged With Pole's Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Horatio Morris, 36, labourer, of Orr-street, Carlton, was charged to-day with the murder of a…

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New Launch For Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 3

Two new police launches have been sent to Newcastle—one for Tea Gardens and one for the Hunter River. Sergeant James, of Newcastle police, is on the Hunter launch as it nears the police boatshed yesterday morning…

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Man Had Chloroform, Police Allege

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 8

Police alleged at Newcastle Court yesterday that one of four men alleged to have entered a house at New Lambton, had a bottle of…

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Court To Hear Dock Dispute

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 2

A dispute which had led to a stoppage of work by members of the Painters' and Dockers' Union at the State Dockyard…

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Morts Dock Dispute Referred To Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Metal Trades Employers' Association has referred to the Federal Arbitration Court a dispute involving 155…

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High Court Dismisses 'Ginger Meggs' Appeal

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Five judges of the High Court today unanimously dismissed the appeal of Associated Newspapers Ltd.,…

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British Police In Wide Hunt For Dangerous "Ghost"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 1

LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.): Police and civilians, are searching hundreds of miles of Berkshire following the escape of two dangerous men from Broadmoor, Britain's asylum for criminal lunatics. One of the men suffers from…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 8

REMANDED.—Bert Aifred Clyde Cheshire, 26, glassblower, was remanded till May 21, on charges of having broken into the home of…

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