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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 40 of 115

No Sense In Defying Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 2

Now that the Commonwealth Arbitration Court's power to order waterside workers to obey their award…

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U.S. Court Rejects "Miracle" Ban

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 14

WASHINGTON, Monday. (A.A.P.). — The United States Supreme Court to-day reversed the decision…

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Suicide Threat By Parson Alleged In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 13

SYDNEY: A former Church of England clergyman had threatened lo hang and gas himself, his wife said in the Divorce Conn to-day…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwike, S.m.) No Evidence

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 14

A charge of falling to give way in an ambulance to a car at the Intersection of Parry and Dawson Sts. against Basil…

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Women's Gaol May Be Moved

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY—Plans were in existence for removal of the women's Reformatory at Long Bay to another…

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Action Praised by Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 5

The Beach Inspector at Merewether Beach (Mr. Keith Ayton will receive a letter of thanks from the Newcastle City…

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Abandoned Baby Police Question Couple

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 1

A man and a woman are being questioned this afternoon in connection with the…

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Secret Police May Be Tapping Phones

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 2

CANBERRA.—Mr. Edmonds (Labor, Q.) now believes that secret police are monitoring Parliamentarians' private telephone conversations…

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3 London Bobbies In Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 1

Three former members of London Metropolitan Police met on official duty at Newcastle Sessions…

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Bonds For Theft Of Liquor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 6

A man and a youth were released on bonds in Newcastle Sessions yesterday after having been found guilty of the theft…

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Parents Of Abandoned Baby Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 3

The parents of the 10-month-old baby found abandoned in the Strand Theatre on Tuesday night were arrested yesterday…

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Gaol Warning For S.P. Bettor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 6

John Frederick Maher, 47, storekeeper, who was fined £100 on a charge of s.p. betting, was told by Mr…

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Man Gets New Term In Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 2

Leslie Allan Morrison, the 28-year-old Hamilton spray painter who is serving a three-year sentence for receiving, pleaded guilty to a charge of fraudulent misappropriation and…

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Police Chase; Man Shot

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday A man was shot this morning after a police chase through Parkville, Carlton and North…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. Hardwicke, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 6

DRUNKEN DRIVERS.—Harold Holman, 36, driver, was fined £15, with £2/12/6 costs, for having driven a utility truck in…

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Penalty Decision Monday Court Convicts Waterside Workers' Union

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Arbitration Court to-day found the Waterside Workers' Federation guilty of contempt of court in refusing to lift its Australia-wide ban on overtime…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Vagrancy Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 May 1952 · page 13

Benjamin Joseph Murray (28) laborer, was sentenced to the rising of the court on a charge of vagrancy…

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£500 Theft From Wardrobe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Thieves, to-day stole £500 in cash from a wardrobe in a house at Picnic Point, near…

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Broken Bottle Assault Claim

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 May 1952 · page 7

Alleged to have struck Thomas Nelson Harrison in the face with a broken bottle in Wallsend Park on the night of March 7, Gordon Ralph Maybury, 18, pleaded "Not guilty"…

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Gaol Sentence For Anxious Husband

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 May 1952 · page 4

NEW YORK, Thurs. (O.S.R.).—A court-martial yesterday sentenced a coastguardsman, Buren C…

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