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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 117

Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.M. Warrant for Arrest

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 18

Mr. See, S.M., ordered a warrant for the arrest of Doreen Amy Redman (38), who did not appear on a charge of having…

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Assault On High Seas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 3

WELLINGTON, April 23. A.A.P.-Reuter. — A special court to-night convicted three seamen of assault…

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Wallsend Theft Of Carpenters' Tools

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 10

Detective-Sergeant P. J. O'Neill and Detective E. Mitchell are investigating the theft of carpenters tools…

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Murder Charge Dropped

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 11

Newcastle, Friday (A.D.C) —Due to the brilliant oratory and resources of cross examination of Sir Edward…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 7

Judge Amsberg heard five undefended petitions in Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday. BROOME v. BROOME…

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Court Told Man Pummelled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday. — A man who was being pummelled on the ground by another was later carried into a police…

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Divorce Court At Newcastle (Before Judge Amsberg) KOUTSOUVELIS v KOUTSOUVELIS

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 9

Speros John Koutsouvells of Josephson St., Swansea, petitioned for divorce from Lily Koutsouvells of Dumaresq St.,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 7

REMANDED.—Ronald Alexander Ridley, 36, driver, was remanded till May 25 on a charge of having driven a…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 9

Sidney Keith Perry (29), taxi driver, was remanded to May 22 on a charge of having driven negligently in King St. on Dec…

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Gaol For Assault On Children

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—A 34-year-old man was sentenced in the Quarter Sessions to-day to 33 months' gaol for having…

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Gaol For Attack On Wife

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 7

Norman Tennant Sinclair, 46, miner, of Speers Point, was sentenced yesterday to six months' hard labour for…

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MAITLAND and DISTRICT Six Months' Gaol For Betting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 6

John Frederick Searston, 46, of High-street, Branxton, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for street betting,…

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Divorce Court in Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 11

Judge Amsberg heard 12 undefended petitions in Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday. ROBINSON v. ROBINSON…

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Waiter Attacked, Court Told

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.— Four Siamese students attacked a Chinese waiter yesterday, and returned later with iron…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 11

REMANDED.—Sidney Keith Ferry, 80, taxi-driver, was remanded to May 22 on charges of having driven negligently in…

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Branxton Court Before Mr. A. S. McDONALD, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1953 · page 6

LIQUOR CHARGE. — Miecyslaw Cichon, 37, of Greta Migrant Centre, was remanded to appear at Maitland Court an…

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Youth Charged with Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 4

At Kurri Court, before Messrs. P. Johnson and G. S. Holliday, J.'sP., Maurice David Hurst, alias Gerald…

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£800 Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday. —Thieves smashed a plateglass window in a chemist's shop in Collins-street, Melbourne, last…

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Barred For Theft Of Bread

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 4

NEW YORK: A French "criminal" whose only "offence" was to steal bread from the Nazis has…

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Murder Victim Identified

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 6

NEW YORK, April 26. A.A.P.—The body of a young woman found in an army kit bag hanging from a tree limb…

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