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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 117

New Appeal By US Spies Sentenced To Death

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Lawyers for the atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sought today to delay their execution again so that they could make a new plea for their lives to the Supreme Court…

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4 Years' Gaol On Wound Intent Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 9

SYDNEY, Thursday—Reginald Ross Robinson was sentenced to-day to four years' gaol for breaking and…

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Police Ambush Mau Mau Men

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 2

NAIROBI (Kenya), Fri. (A.A.P.).—Police who ambushed a gang of Kikuyu tribesmen believed to be…

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Watcher Attacked, Court Told

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.— Three men attacked a woman who had watched them break into a house at Bellevue Hill…

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N.Z. Court Acquits Sydney Man

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 2

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Fri. (A.A.P.—Reuter). — Joseph Alexander McKay, managing director, of…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 9

NOT GIVE WAY.—The following were each fined £4/8/ with 12/ costs, for having failed to give way to a vehicle on the…

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League Must Police Rule

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 14

The Newcastle Rugby League, which holds its annual meeting on Monday night, has a big problem to face in the coming season—to police its rule governing…

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Guns, Very Pistols In Police Haul

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday.— Making their biggest haul of the kind for years, detectives in two simultaneous raids…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 13

HOTEL THEFTS.—On a charge of having stolen clothing, a traveller's clock, a pair of binoculars and two bottles…

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Bank Teller's £1000 Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 5

BRISBANE.—The bank teller who stole £1000 from the Anrierley branch of the Commonwealth Bank was…

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First Theft In 100 Years

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 3

SAN MARINO, Mon. (A.A.P.). — People in the republic of San Marino are in a state of consternation…

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"Cunning Swindler" Gets 4 Years' Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY: "A cunning swindle carefully planned to avoid detection," was the description given by Judge Curlewis in the Quarter Sessions today to a fraud through which an advertising manager stole £5965 from his employer…

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Man Says Debt Forced His Grocery Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 3

A married man with three children told Newcastle Court today that he stole £8 18s Id worth of groceries from his employer because his creditors had threatened to garnishee his wages. Before the court was…

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No Clues Yet In Mail Bag Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY: Detectives investigating the disappearance of £20,500 from a mail bag consigned to Cessnock on the Glen Innes Mail last Wednesday night are satisfied that…

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Surrendered To Police

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 2

A man who failed to appear at the last Newcastle Quarter Sessions to face a housebreaking…

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Fined Fighting "For" Police

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 4

LONDON.—An 18-year-old soldier with six months service, David Alfred McKenzie, of Newbury House…

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Maitland Court (Before Mr. F. P. Halpin. S.m.) Betting Offences

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 4

Gordon William Akers, 39, laborer, of Louth Park Ru[?] Maitland, was fined £30 for street betting in Maitland on…

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£52 Theft at Cessnock

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 2

Thieves stole £52 from the home of Harold William Elwood, of Attwater-avenue, Cessnock, on Sunday night…

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Farmer Guilty Of Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 5

Albert Reeves, 43, farmer, was remanded for sentence, at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday, after he had pleaded "Guilty" to four charges of…

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Murder Count Remand

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday—Arthur Patrick Smith, 39, labourer, of Back Yanco-road, Leeton, was charged in Central Court…

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