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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 115

Constables Sentenced For Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —In Moonee Ponds Court to-day two policemen were each sentenced to three months…

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Yardman Charged With Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 3

PERTH, Wednesday.—Karol Tapci, 22, yardman at a hotel in the small township of Wubin, was charged in Perth…

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Experiment In Theft By Cleric's Son

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 2

LONDON: A clergyman's son who graduated from Oxford this year said at Marlborough St…

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Gaol Term Seen As Tax Relief

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 7

"That will be six months' taxation I will not have to pay," Kenneth Dear, 57, labourer, said in Newcastle Court…

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Nightclub Murder Not Closed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Police are conducting further investigations into the murder of William John (Bobby) Lee…

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Mother On Charge Of Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 7

TOOWOOMBA, Monday. —A woman discharged from Toowoomba Hospital to-day was arrested and charged with…

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Father For Trial On Murder Count

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Richard Basil Scudds, 26, labourer, of Barcom-avenue, Darlinghurst, was to-day…

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Divorce Court In Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 4

Judge O'Sullivan found the issue proved when Ella Margaret Stone, of Regent-street, Maitland, petitioned in the…

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Bribery Denied by Supt. Of police

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: Superintendent John Delaney, Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police, told the Liquor Royal Commissioner today he had never at any lime attempted to bribe anyone trying to investigate evidence before the Commission…

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Liquor Inquiry Stir Police Bribe Alleged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A witness said in the Liquor Royal Commission to-day he had been offered £25 to keep the names of certain policemen off a liquor order list. The witness, Arthur Beckhouse, an officer of the Audi"…

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Union Rule Invalid, Court Says

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A new rule of the Federated Clerks' Union was objectionable in its present form and…

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Lysaghfr's Craned river Court Reuses Reinstatement

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: The Industrial Commission today refused to make an order reinstating a cranedriver who was dismissed from the Newcastle works of Lysaght's Pty…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 7

REMANDED.—Douglas Lloyd Vaughan, 36, telephone mechanic, was remanded till April 16 on charges of having used…

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Kurri Court (Before Mr. C. Ward, S.m.) Traffic Breaches

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 14

For having carried pillion riders on motor cycles while not being the holders ol licences for 12 months, Kevin John…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m.) Clerk Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 3

Harold Camps, 31, clerk, was fined £7 for wilful exposure at Newcastle Beach yesterday. REMANDED…

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Man Is Charged With Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: Alexander McIntosh Campbell (53) laborer. Jones St., Ultimo, was charged in Central…

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Mother In Court; Murder Counts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 6

TOOWOOMBA, Thursday. —Mrs. Lillian May Lee, of Millmerran, was charged in Toowomba Court this…

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Committed On Charge Of Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 3

Two of three men charged, with a £1335 clothing robbery at Cardiff last November were committed…

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Gaol Term Suggestion For "Racial" Libel

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.)—Sir Leslie Plummer (Lab.) urged in the House of Commons yesterday that racial and religious libel and slander should be punished by imprisonment A small party standing…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 March 1952 · page 4

REMANDED.—Harold Lawrence Davies 36, electrician, was remanded till April 17, on £100 bail, on a charge of having…

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