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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 115

More Police Sought At Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 4

Wallsend Chamber of Commerce will ask the Newcastle Superintendent of Police (Mr. Swasbrick) to give more police…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 4

FOUND IN SALESYARD.—John James Soorley, 36, labourer, was fined £1/10/ for having entered Newcastle City…

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Woman Charged With Arson

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 1

Newcastle detectives inquiring into a fire which damaged the rear of a weatherboard cottage in…

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War Record Saved Him From Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 2

LONDON.—Fined £75 disqualified for a year for driving dangerously while under the influence of…

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Murder, Then Suicide Finding in Flat Shooting

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 3

The City Coroner (Mr. T. H. D. See) today returned a finding of murder and suicide when he inquired into a double shooting tragedy in a Newcastle flat on Dec. 19 last…

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British Enter Ismailia Swift Reply To Nun's Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 1

LONDON, Jan, 20 A.A.P.—British Paratroopers, infantry, tanks and armoured cars this morning advanced into the Arab quarter of Ismailia to clean out and search a maze of…

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Laziness Blamed On Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 4

A police sergeant told Newcastle Court yesterday that a man he had arrested on a charge of vagrancy had told…

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Murder, Suicide in City Flat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 4

A verdict of murder and suicide was returned by the Newcastle Coroner (Mr. T. H. D. See) yesterday after an inquest on two people found shot dead in a Telford-street…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 4

ADJOURNED.—Two charges of goods in custody against George Richard Sealey, 43, tiler, of Devonshire-street,…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. B. A. Hardwicke Undersized Fish

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 2

Peter Stevens, of Maltlandrd., Hexham, was fined £2 with 12s costs for having undersized prawns in his possession at…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 4

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.—Joseph Munn, 32, Stuart James Steele, 27, and Edgar Thomas Condron, 24, labourers, were…

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Fight Manager Charged With Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 16

NEW YORK, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—Fight manager Tommy Ryan was indicted today on charges of…

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Police Chief Robbed

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 15

LONDON.—A thief who broke into the home of a Chief Superintendent of the police in Esher…

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Students, Police Clash In Athens

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 7

ATHENS, Wed. (O.S.R.): Tension is mounting in Athens as anti-British and anti-Communist feelings are being fanned to fever pitch…

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Man Stole £2483, Court Told

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 3

Alfred George Harvey, 32, clerk, pleaded "Guilty" at Newcastle Sessions yesterday to having stolen £2483/17/4…

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Wallsend Court (Before Mr. C. K. Ward, S.m.) Arson Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 3

Mr. Ward remanded a woman to Feb. 6 when she was charged with having set fire to a house at Lake Rd., Wallsend…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Changed Plates

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 13

William Herbert Jones, 23, laborer, was fined £5 or 10 days' hard labor on each of two charges—having caused a…

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Gaol Sentence for Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 4

Ronald Gilmour Jenkinson, 41, labourer, was found guilty at Newcastle Sessions yesterday of having indecently assaulted…

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Two Charged With Murder Of Woman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Wednesday. —In Narracoorle Court to-night, the husband and the father of Patricia Catherine…

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Theft From Room Mate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 4

A 22-year-old drink waitress was sentenced yesterday at Newcastle Court to six months' imprisonment for having stolen…

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