Man Gaoled On Theft Charges
Poultry thefts, which reached alarming proportions throughout the Newcastle district before Christmas, had dropped…
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Courts & crime, 1952
2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 115
Divorce Court
Six divorce petitions were found answered in the affirmative by Judge Brereton in Newcastle Divorce Court…
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UNREGISTERED LORRY. —Leslie Owen Avery, of Villiers-street, Mayfield, was fined 18/, with 12/ costs, for having…
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DES MOINES (Iowa), Feb. 3. A.A.P.—Tommy Ellis, 19, who is serving a 50-year term for murder, was…
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A man in a business at Mayfield told Newcastle Court yesterday that he had set a trap for a partner…
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Claude Dent Anlezark, 30, carpenter, and Percy Dent Anlezark, 34, machinist, were committed for trial at…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Police had no right to question people without giving them a warning, Judge Stacy said in the…
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TUNIS, Feb. 4. A.A.P.—Police opened fire to-day on a crowd forming on the streets and killed one person in a…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. —Formal application for a Police Discipline Board inquiry into an alleged assault on a…
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SYDNEY: In a desperate bid to escape from police in a stolen car at Ashfield early today, the driver deliberately ran down a constable. Then followed a 60…
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SPEEDING.—Phil Maria, of Bede-stret, Balmoral (Queensland), was fined £5, with 12/ costs, for having exceeded the…
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OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR. —Joseph Chapman, 21, labourer, was fined £3/10/ for offensive behaviour in Hunter-street. For…
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SYDNEY: Emaciated and appearing as if in a coma, Darcy Dugan was brought to Sydney from Grafton today and lodged in Long Bay Gaol…
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A Newcastle woman clerk, police alleged at Newcastle Court today, had admitted having stolen thousands of pounds from her employers and lost the lot playing baccarat. She had been threatened…
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FOR TRIAL.—Lionel Hole, of Alexander-street, Kurri Kurri, was committed for trial at Maitland Quarter Sessions on…
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HUSBAND CHARGED.—James Andrew Lewis, 29, labourer, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for having assaulted…
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VAGRANCY CHARGE.—Allan Robinson Miller, 60, labourer, was charged with having been in Maitland on February 4, a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Remanded
Albert Charles Wilson (24) and Albert Lang Gleeson (20), laborers, were charged with having assaulted Roy Maxwell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wallsend Court (Before Mr. C. K. Ward, S.M.) S.P. BETTING
John Leslie Neil, 32, laborer, was fined £20 for S.P. betting at Wallsend on February 2. James White, 50, laborer, who…
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LONDON: Thieves stripped 1½ tons of lead worth about £200 from the roof of the lower gallery at…
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