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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 33 of 115

Police Resign From Safety Body

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 2

Constables Pike and Mann last night advised Newcastle branch of the Road Safety Council of their resignations…

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Cape Town Guard 'Police Idea'

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 2

CAPE TOWN, Friday (A.A.P.).—The South African police had suggested they send reinforcements…

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U.S. Court Refuses Wage Ban

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 4

WASHINGTON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): The U.S. Court of Appeals refused to ban…

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Japanese Club Americans G.I's were clubbed in a Tokyo May Day riot. Police clashed with Communists in Berlin. Violent Battle in Tokyo on May Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 1

TOKYO, May 1. A.A.P.—About 300,000 Japanese Communist May Day demonstrators went berserk in Tokyo to-day. They stoned and clubbed at least nine Americans,…

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2 Remanded On Theft Charges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—Two men charged in Paddington Court to-day with stealing clothes valued at £900 were…

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Woman Gaol Escapee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 1

LONDON, May 4. A.A.P.—Twenty-two-year-old Bernardine Harwood, serving a 15 month sentence in…

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Theft Of £600 Ring

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A dress ring worth £600 was stolen from a woman at Ciro's nightclub in Collins-place last…

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Police Recover Gelignite

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 3

LITHGOW, Sunday.—Police recovered 96 of 100 sticks of gelignite and hundreds of detonators stolen from…

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Malan Explains Police Guard

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 3

CAPE TOWN, May 4. A.A.P.—The Prime Minister of South Africa (Dr. Malan) said police reinforcements were sent to Cape Town because of "serious secret…

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200 at Police Property Sale

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 2

About 200 people attended an auction sale of unclaimed lost property at Newcastle Police Station on Saturday…

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Youthful "Pest" Gets Gaol

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

SYDNEY, Monday.—Judge Curlewis in Quarter Sessions to-day told an 18-year-old youth that the only…

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Dog Solves Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Monday, (O.S.R.). — Falucho, a brown cattle dog, solved a murder mystery for the…

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Year's Gaol for Car Offences

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

GRAFTON, Monday.—Graham Leslic Dorsett, 18, driver, of Granville, and Alfred Arthur John Flowers, 20,…

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Judge Slates Man For Attack, Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Ronald Bruce Nelson, 20, labourer, of Paddington, who half choked an old woman, gagged…

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Unions Debate Court Change

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.—A conference of 93 unions affiliated with the A.C.T.U. to-day did not reach a decisio on proposed amendments to the…

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Court Move on A.r.u. Ballot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Victorian State Secretary of the Australian Railways Union (Mr. J. J. Brown) has been called on to show cause why an order should not be…

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Cessnock Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m.) Drunken Driving Find

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 16

Pleading guilty to a charge of having driven a car in Maitland Rd., Cessnock, last night while under the influence of…

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Murder Suspect Trapped

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1952 · page 6

NEW YORK, May 6. A.A.P.—State police in Providence (Rhode Island) trapped a "prime suspect" in the…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1952 · page 7

WITHDRAWN.—An application for a permit to sell light wines and malted liquors at the Aleron restaurant, Newcastle,…

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Police Say Traffic Dome Effective

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1952 · page 4

The location of the traffic dome at the intersection of Hobart and Wallarah Roads, New Lambton, was in an…

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