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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

2,083 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 79 of 105

Court Ruling On N.S.W. Fauna Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Full Bench of the High Court to-day ruled that the Australian manager of a British firm had not…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 6

FOR TRIAL.—Ronald James Cornwall, 18. labourer, and Kenneth Shields, 18. labourer, were committed for trial at Newcastle Quarter…

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10 Sentenced, Shot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 1

HONGKONG, Oct. 4. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Ten persons were sentenced to death by the Shanghai People's Court last Saturday and…

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£500 Meat Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Thieves stole a meat waggon loaded with 5000lb of beef worth £500 from a city street to-day…

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Tone Drops Assault Count

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 7

Franchot Tone (left), film actor, signs a waiver of charges against actor Tom Neal at the office of District Attorney Roll (right), in Los Angeles. Tone had charged Neal with assault for the beating he took for the love of Barbara Payton…

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Six Months For Motorcycle Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Jack Weston (27) miner, of Macquarie-st., Boolaroo, was sentenced to six months' hard labor in Central…

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Cessnock Police Sergeant Dies

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 3

Police Sergeant Archy Alfred Griffith, 57, died suddenly last. night in Cessnock Hospital where he had been a patient…

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Court Rules On Dog Ownership

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. Justice Roper ruled in the Equity Court to-day that the greyhound dog Kelvin Lad was the property…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 7

SHOP THEFT.—Janet Davies, 50, home duties, was fined £3 for having stolen a pair of stockings valued at 14/9, the property of Winn's…

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Court At East Maitland (Before Mr. F. L. McNamara, S.m.) Undersized Fish

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 3

Gordon Taylor, of George-st., East Maltland, was fined £2 with 10s costs for being in possession of undersized fish…

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Gaoled For Theft Of Cycle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Jack Weston, 27, miner, of Boolaroo, was sentenced to six months' hard labour in Central Court to-day for having…

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£5000 Theft Charge Against Manager

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Police to-night arrested a 43-year-old business manager, of East Kew, and charged him with larceny of…

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Woman Charged With Kidnapping Son

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Oct. 5, A.A.P.—A sobbing 9-year-old boy yesterday was taken forcibly from his mother, who was accused of kidnapping her son to rear him as a Communist behind the Iron Curtain…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 6

REMANDED.—John Arthur Peckman, 21, labourer, was remanded till October 17, on £50 ball, on a charge of having made a false statement at…

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Maitland Welcome To Magistrate

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 October 1951 · page 2

A welcome was extended at Maitland Court today to Mr. F. L. McNamara, S.M., who was Clerk of Petty Sessions at…

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Murder In Malaya

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 October 1951 · page 2

By the murder of Sir Henry Gurney, the Communist terrorists in Malaya have got rid of the man who was conducting one…

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Police Chief Takes Own Life

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 October 1951 · page 1

HACKENSACK (New Jersey), Oct. 7. A.A.P.—The body of Fred Stengel, chief of the Fort Lee police, who had been indicted on…

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Police Patrol Sought At Birmingham

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 October 1951 · page 2

Wallsend police will be asked by Heaton-Birmingham Gardens Progress Association to patrol the area at week-ends in…

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Maitland Court (Before Mr. P. L. McNamara, S.m.) Found in Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 October 1951 · page 2

Leslie Lester of Young-st., Redfern, was fined £5 with 10s costs for falsely representing himself as a traveller when found on the…

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Teacher Cleared Of Indecent Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 October 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—A Quarter Sessions jury to-day acquitted James Kilpatrick Jamieson, 66, teacher, of a charge of indecent…

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