Police Inquiry on Child's Death
Brian McTaggart, 6 months, of Singleton, died in Dangar Cottage Hospital yesterday after having become ill at his parents' home. A…
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Courts & crime, 1951
2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 67 of 105
Court Goes By Air
DARWIN, Monday.—A full Police Court will fly to Groote Eylandt on Wednesday to try a white man…
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LONDON, Aug. 20. — Mrs. Melinda MacLean, wife of one of two missing Foreign Office officials, is having a quiet holiday on the…
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VAGRANCY.—John Samuel Abel, 5s, labourer, was sentenced to six months imprisonment for vagrancy. Constable L. Andrew said Abel came…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m.) Drove Under Influence
Colin Plumb, 18, laborer, was fined £15 for driving a car in Market St. Newcastle, on Aug. 20, while under the influence of liquor and £2…
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CASINO, Tuesday.—The Coroner (Mr. E. Jones) to-day committed William Henry Abbott, 29, Assistant Stock Inspector, for trial on charges of having murdered a young married…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Maxwell Carl Skinner, 23, escaped from Richmond watchhouse late to-day, 20 minutes after he had…
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CASINO.—William Henry Abbott, 29, was committed for trial yesterday on a charge of having murdered a newly-wed…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Pensions of retired police officers were so inadequate they had to work at night, the Australian Police Union's…
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SYDNEY: The present position of the Supreme Court judiciary was absolutely parlous because so few judges were available to hear law suits, Mr. Justice Herron declared today…
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Maitland City Council is hopeful that part of the Morpeth Courthouse will be granted for use as a baby health…
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An 18-year-old youth who, police alleged, had embarked on a career of crime, appeared at Newcastle Court today on 42…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—In a reserved judgment in the Supreme Court to-day Judge Stanley ruled that a mar after a term in gaol,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wallsend Court (Before Mr. F. P. Halpin. S.m.) Permitted Betting
For having allowed betting at the Minmi Hotel, Minmi, on Jan. 1, Claude James Hornery, the licensee, who pleaded guilty, was fined £10…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Suspended Sentences
A 23-year-old laborer, Kevin James Franklin, was given suspended gaol sentences on two charges of stealing…
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Neville Robin, 18, labourer, was committed at Newcastle Court yesterday for trial on two charges of breaking, entering and stealing…
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SYDNEY: Police found a 23-year-old bricklayer asleep at his home soon after the seminude body of a woman was discovered on a vacant North Sydney allotment on Aug. 5, the City Coroner…
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TOOWOOMBA, Wednesday. — Deletha Evangeline Lee, 41, who was charged with the murder of her son, James, 8, was found not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See. S.m.) Industrial Court
Jerry's Cafe, Pty. Ltd., was fined 30s with 6s costs for failing to keep a holiday record; 30s with 9s costs for falling to post in position…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
SENTENCE SUSPENDED.—Kevin James Franklin, 23, labourer, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on two charges of having stolen…
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