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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 117

Gaol For Acts Of Indecency

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1953 · page 13

At Maitland Sessions yesterday, Albert Reeves, 43, dairy farmer, was sentenced to two years' gaol for having assaulted four girls, aged 8 to 10, with…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1953 · page 13

At Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday, Judge Amsberg found the issues answered in the affirmative when Cecil…

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Police To Show Reports

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1953 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Doolan, S.M., to-day ordered Constable Francis William Conwell to produce all police…

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Meat Queue Took Four Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Feb. 20. A.A.P.—In Brooklyn, a New York borough, four policemen yesterday were required to…

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Court Told of Doyle 'Dummy'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 February 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Official Receiver may claim money in a Rural Bank account which, it was said in the Equity Court to-day, was run by a man acting as a…

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Conscripts For German Police

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 6

BERLIN, Mon. (A.A.P.)—"Die Neue Zeitung," German-language newspaper of the U.S. High…

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Police Cold On Beer Story

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 1

Police who found two men carrying icy cold bottles of draught beer in the yard of the Windsor…

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Court At Newcastle (before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m.) Begged Alms

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 10

Harold Dwyer (46), laborer, was sent to gaol for a month for begging alms in Hunter-st. on Feb, 21. On a charge of…

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Remanded On Murder Count

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.— In the City Court to-day George Ernest Marsden, 31, labourer, of Thomas-street,…

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Aust. Soldier Charged With Corporal's Death

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 6

SEOUL, Tues. (A.A.P.) : The court-martial of an Australian private charged with the murder of an American corporal "in the field" opened yesterday. The accused is Private…

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5 'Weddings' Cost Him 8 Years Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 13

LONDON. — Edward Charles Blackburn was gaoled for 12 months at Hampshire Assizes,…

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Great Devotion Led To Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 13

LONDON: Kitty McGloin was the woman who murdered her husband—because she loved him so much. For nine years—after he…

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Court Told Property Returned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 5

A Presbyterian minister's wife said yesterday that a man charged with robbery had visited the Manse on…

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Road Safety Points By Police Expert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 4

Constable D. W. Pike, Police Traffic Branch lecturer, made these points at Newcastle Rotary Club yesterday on road safety…

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Court Rules on "Fancy Bread"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY: A decision by the Full Bench of the Industrial Commission yesterday meant that…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 6

REMANDED.—George Allan Henderson, 40, carpenter, was remanded till March 6 on a charge of having assaulted…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See. S.m.) Drove Under Influence

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 February 1953 · page 14

Colin William Wallace, 31, driver, was fined £10 when he pleaded guilty to driving a car in Glebe-rd., Adamstown, on…

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Australian Soldier Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 3

SEOUL, Feb. 24. A.A.P. Reuter.—Private Ian Dowling Cupit, of the Third Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment,…

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Ketch Theft Alleged: 3 Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY.—Donald Royden McDowell, 19, Pamela Anne Moody, 18, and Owen Lawrence Gill, 28, were all…

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Sex Offender Sentenced In Two Courts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 February 1953 · page 9

A 22-year-old labourer was given gaol sentences in two courts to-day on charges of wilful exposure…

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