Prefers Gaol To £77 Fine
A lorry driver who was fined a total of £77 16s on five charges in Newcastle Court today elected to go to gaol for 156 days. He was Charles Logan…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 117
Aboriginal On Charge Of Murder
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A 49-year-old father of nine was charged in Central Crimmal Court to-day with having…
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SYDNEY.—C.I.B. Chief (Superintendent Ramus) will forward to Police Commissioner Delaney a report…
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Newcastle police are endeavoring to establish the identity of a man found wandering on the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Military Trainee Court Problem
A National Service trainee who failed to attend a military camp set Mr. A. S. McDonald S.M., a ticklish problem at East Maitland Court today…
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LOS ANGELES: If justice is to be done, courts should call psychiatrists to appraise vital witnesses, according to Dr. Henry A. Davidson, lecturer in legal medicine at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →£135,000 'Out Of Court' Divorce Settlement
LOS ANGELES, Thurs. (A.A.P.)—A £135,900 outof-court settlement was announced today, a few hours before a Superior Court judge was due to begin hearing divorce charges against King Vidor,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m. Summons Division
MAT ADULTERATED.—Kevin A. Lake, of Pacific Highway, Charlestown, was lined £2, with 12/ costs, for having sold…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Divorce Court at Maitland (Before Mr. Justice Brereton) Thompson v THOMPSON
Beryl May Thompson, of Maitland-road, Tarro, said in Maitland Supreme Court yesterday that Douglas Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. hardwicke, S.m.) Remanded
Hugh Campbell Weir (28). laborer, was remanded to July 24 on charges of having driven a taxi cab in Hunter St.,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court at E. MAITLAND (Before Mr. A. s. McDonnald, S.m.) Negligent Driving
Harold Samuel McGill, of Broadmeadow, was fined £4 with 12s costs and Edward Southwell, of High St…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Driver Facing £77 Penalty Chooses Gaol
"No. 1 will have to take it out in gaol," Charles Logan Redman told Mr. R. A. Hardwicke S.M. at Newcastle…
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A youth who, police said, made it a practice to steal from people who befriended him, was sentenced yesterday to 18 months' gaol…
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SYDNEY. Friday.—Roly Dennison. 49. stationhand, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Dovery in Central…
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The District Court will begin at Newcastle at noon on Monday. Sessions jurors summoned for 9.45 a.m., will not…
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LONDON, June 5. A.A.P. —Police and Port of London Authority officials will dram a three-mile stretch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Divorce Court Gamage v. GAMAGE
Desertion in May, 1948, was the reason Leslie Allen Gamage seaman, of McCormack- street, Newcastle, sought…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Helping Hand Led To Court Charge
Trevor John Meaker, of William-steet, Mayfield, told Mr. Handwicke, S.M. at Newcastle Court yesterday that he…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
REMANDED.— Hugh Campbell Weir, 28. labourer, sas remanded till July 24 on £20 bail on charges of having driven a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Magistrate's Doubt About Street Fight
Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., at Newcastle Court today dismissed a charge of offensive behavior…
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