Boy, 13, Charged With Arson
GLEN INNES, Tuesday.—Police arrested a 13-year-old boy and charged him with having set fire to the Practice School and Town…
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Courts & crime, 1951
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Man Held For Shaft Murder
Michael Joseph Maher, 50, last night was charged with the murder of his brother, Ernest John…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Sydney C.I.B. detectives to-day advocated a tighter check on New Australians to facilitate police work…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Police Traffic Department has given permission for a Goulburn to Sydney cycling race to be held on…
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SYDNEY: A team of prices officials went into action today, checking sales in shops following the N.S.W. Government's price freezing order yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cessnock Court Before Mr. A. S. Tunchon, S.m
NEGLIGENT DRIVING.—Jack Parsons was fined £2, with 10/ costs, for having ridden a motor-cycle negligently in Maitland-road, Cessnock,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED.—Larry Bernard Dugan, 18, labourer, was remanded till Thursday on charges of having stolen £25 from John Barrio at Broadmeadow…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Court at Newcastle (Before Judge O'Sullivan) Damages Claim
Ronald Douglas Soreng, of Maitland Rd., Sandgate, was awarded £150 by consent against Fred Bucklow, also of Maitland Rd., Sandgate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Stole Rote
John Stewart Schneider, 22, carrier, was fined £10 for stealing at Mayfield on July 25 four ropes valued at 30s, the property of the…
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CASINO.—Casino Court was crowded today when William Henry Abbott (29), married, was charged with the murder…
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Michael Joseph Maher, 50, labourer, was charged in Newcastle Court yesterday with the murder of his brother, Ernest John Maher,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man and a woman charged with the murder of an elderly wharf labourer, George Brett, in a Miller's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Comic Court Retired
MELBOURNE.—Comic Court, Australia's champion racehorse, has finished racing. He has been leased from his owners,…
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SYDNEY.—C.I.B. detectives are satisfied that there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the deaths last…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Around The Schools Police Campaign On Road Safety
A team of policemen and women from Sydney Traffic Bureau and Newcastle constables will conduct an intensive road safety campaign in Newcastle next month…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
DESERTED.—Werner Schulz, 19, steward, received a suspended sentence of two months' imprisonment, on entering a bond of £20 for 12…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr.R. A. Hardwicke, S.M Unlicensed Radios
Ronald Thomas Henry Byrnes of Margaret St., Mayfield East, Walter Keith Hogbin, of Holt St., Mayfield East were each fined £2 14s;…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Denied His Own "Murder"
DENVER, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—John Harper today denied that he was murdered two years ago in New Orleans…
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SYDNEY.—Donald Livingstone Orr (38), hotelkeeper, of the Westralia Hotel, Sussex St., Sydney, appeared in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED.—Charged with having copper In his possession, reasonably suspected of having been stolen, Lawrence Dixon, 27, dealer, was…
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