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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 117

Hall Porter On Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 5

LONDON, Mon. (A.A.P.)—Police last night charged a 39-year-old hall porter with murdering Mrs. Grace…

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Activity By Police Resented

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

HOBART, Sunday. — Hobart returned servicemen and hotel licensees are incensed by unusual police activity in…

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16,000 Police For Coronation

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 4

LONDON: Scotland Yard's Coronation security plans are complete. They are the most elaborate ever…

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Police Chief Strangled Near Teheran

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 1

TEHERAN, April 26. A.A.P. —The missing Teheran Chief of Police, Brigadier Afshartus, has been found strangled…

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Body Of Police Chief Found

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 4

TEHERAN, Mon. (A.A.P.): Three retired brigadiers and a colonel have been arrested following discovery of the murdered body of Police Chief Brigadier Afshartus…

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Police Were Listening To Crime Plan

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 9

LONDON.—Outside an East End grocer's store in Well St. Hackney, London, four men discussed their…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 9

Martin Henry Brothers (42), rail guard, was fined £5, with 12s costs, for having had goods in custody, including a radio…

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Court at Maitland (Before Mr. A. S. McDonald, S.m.) Licensee Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 4

Keith Phillip Dagg, licensee of the Victoria Hotel, Hinton, was fined £5 with 12s costs for permitting liquor to be…

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Man Charged With Nylon Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 1

LONDON, April 27. A.A.P. —John Haskayne, 39, hotel porter, was charged in the Marylebone Court to-day with…

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Police Seek Basher

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY.— Twenty uniformed police and detectives searched the Spit Junction district in vain…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 6

Judge Amsberg heard two undefended petitions in Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday. KELLIE v. KELLIE…

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Maitland Court (Before Mr. A. S. McDONALD, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 4

FOR TRIAL. — Kenneth Lawrence Belcher, 32, manager, of Robertson-road, South Granville, was committed for…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hard Wicke, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 6

REMANDED. — Walter John McLean Merrion, 26, labourer, was remanded till to-day on charges of having been found…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Bound Over

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 4

A man who had been placed in the "invidious position" of being asked by his employer to have a few beers before…

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Two Soldiers Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 3

HONGKONG, April 28. A.A.P.-Reuter. — A Chinese taxi-cyclist told the Supreme Court to-day that he became…

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Clerk To Be Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A clerk was remanded for sentence in the Quarter Sessions to-day on a charge of having stolen…

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Wife-Assault Costs £30

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 3

Rejecting a plea that a defendant in an assault case at Newcastle Court this morning be given the…

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Murder Charge Committal

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY.—Maurice Joseph Napier, 22, machinist, of Laurence St., Alexandria, was committed for…

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Bond, Fines On Charges Of Stealing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 7

Walter John McLean Merrion, 26, labourer, was sentenced at Newcastle Court yesterday to six months' hard…

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Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 7

At Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday Judge Amsberg found the issue proved when Myrtle Lillian Thornton, of…

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