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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 105

Four Charged With Theft From Railway

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 6

Half the goods valued at £333 11s 8d which four married men with families were alleged to have stolen from Cockle Creek…

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Stealing Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 8

Garry Anstice, of Newcastle-street, East Maitland, was remanded till January 19 by Mr. V. R. Jenkins, J.P., in Maitland Court yesterday…

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Bankrupt Freed From Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A schoolteacher who was gaoled on December 12, 1950, for failure to pay £572 divorce costs, was…

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Husband Bound Over For Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 8

Gordon Harold Preston, 38, painter, was sentenced by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday, to three months'…

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Murder Trial For Widow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A young widow was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having murdered her baby daughter…

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Husband Acquitted Of Wife's Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 4

NEW YORK, Jan, 17. A.A.P.—Television director Herbert Gehr yesterday was acquitted of charges that he killed his wife when she…

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Astor Flats Murder Hearing February 1

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A charge of having murdered Mrs. Edith Hill, at Astor Flats, Macquaire-street, and having stolen…

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Police Investigate Shearer's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police investigating a shearer's death yesterday left Walgett to-night to interview the man's workmates at…

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Goods Seized By Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 1

Police seized goods from some souses at Argenton last night. The articles included carpets, shoes, crushed velvet curtains and…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 7

DISCHARGED.—Terance James Hart, 20, miner, was discharged on a charge of having driven a ear negligently in Hunter-street on…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 2

Richard McDougall, 32, laborer, was fined £5 for offensive behavior in the Lyric Theatre, Newcastle, last night…

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Men Charged With Stealing Pepper

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 4

LONDON.—Charged with receiving 21 sacks of pepper belonging to Messrs. Drysdale and Bennett Ltd., spice…

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Magistrate's Wife Who Was Lonely

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 12

LONDON.—Depression, illness and loneliness were suggested at Marylebone to have caused Jessie Piu Chun Tam,…

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Magistrate Has Look At History

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 9

LONDON.—Liverpool stipendiary magistrate went to court prepared to give a ruling on an M.P.'s constitutional rights…

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Mother Remanded on Murder Charges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Shirley Rose Miller, 21, of Buxton, who is charged with the murder of her two children, was remanded…

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Armed Search After Police Officer Shot

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 4

LONDON: Police—Constable Geoffrey bobbins and two bailiffs called on 35-year-old smallholder Albert Leonard Giles, living in a converted tramcar, with a sheriff's warrant on…

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Bad Boys To Scrub Police Station

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 11

LONDON.—Mr. Brien Pye-Smith, chairman of Sheffield Juvenile Court panel, told the local justices that the Chief…

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Police Order Man From A.j.c

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Police ordered Maurice Ryan, a stable strapper, to leave the A.J.C. office to-day after he had made a bitter outburst against a newspaper article concerning…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 7

REMANDED.—Three men charged with having broken into a stroeroom at Cockle Creek on or about November 1 and stolen a case of…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 2

Paul G. Marsh, 21, miner, of Newcastle-st., East Maitland, and Garry Anstice of Newcastle-st., East Maitland, were remanded to Newcastle…

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