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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 16 of 115

Man Charged With Stabbing Woman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A 31-year-old Randwick man was charged with attempted murder after police had…

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2 Charged Over Body In Garden

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A man aged 28 and a woman, 30, were charged to-day with having murdered John William…

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Police Boy In First Loss

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 6

L. Sivyer, five for 60, played a big part in New Lambton's defeat by seven runs of Police Boys' Club on Saturday…

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Court At Maitland (Before Mr. C. K. Ward, S.M. Potato Offences

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 3

Clifford Mead, of Bolwarra, was fined £3 with £2 14s costs for disposing of potatoes other than to the Potato Marketing…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See. S.m.) Fought in Park

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 7

John Harvie Tollis, 26, and Stanley Reginald Davies, 18, laborers, were each fined £2 10s for behaving offensively at…

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Man, Woman Charged With Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday.—A man and a woman were remanded in Central Court to-day until March 11 on a…

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Child Murder Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—A 26-year-old labourer, charged with having murdered his three-month-old son, was…

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Police Funeral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 2

Constable R. N. Elliott, of Newcastle police district, who died in Royal Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, at the…

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Maitland Court Before Mr. C. K. WARD, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 6

DISMISSED.—Joseph Priestley Pryor, 37, taxi-driver, of Belmore-road. Lora, was discharged when charged with…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 6

REMANDED.—James Muir, 44, labourer, was remanded til April 9, on £10 ball, on a charge of having maliciously…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Harawicke, S.m.) Vagrants Gaoled

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 3

John Thomas Burns, 47, Jaborer, was sent to gaol for three months on a charge of vagrancy. He was also ordered to…

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Doctor To Face Murder Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday—Dr. George Stanley Thompson, 70, of Carr-street, Coogee, was committed for trial to-day on…

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Police At Union Meeting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police were called to-night to an unruly meeting of the Miscellaneous Workers' Union at…

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Man Robbed Relatives, Police Say

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 3

A youth of 19 had admitted breaking and entering the house of one brother-in-law and stealing…

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Attempt To Poison Man, Police Say

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY: Detectives are investigating what they say appears to have been an attempt to poison a young…

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Divorce Court At Cessnock WILLIAMS v. WILLIAMS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 5

Marjorie Williams (formerly Burton) of Mount View-road, Cessnock, petitioned for a divorce before Judge…

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Court Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 14

Lawrence Gill, 41, motor driver, pleaded guilty to driving while under the Influence of liquor on January 27, 1950, and…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 8

BREACH OF BOND.—John Thomas Burns, 47, labourer, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having broken…

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Wallsend Court (Before Mr. C. K. Ward. S.M.) S.P. BETTING

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 5

James White. 40. miner, was fined £20 for S.P. betting at Wallsend on Feb. 2 and John Henry, 26, laborer. £10 for…

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£1000 Theft On Wanganella

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Thieves last night forced an alleyway bulkhead on the liner Wanganella in Darling…

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