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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 117

Court Gives Decision In Leucotomy Case

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: It was questionable whether a worker could reasonably be expected to submit to a leucotomy operation with its possible risks, Judge Lamond said in the Workers' Compensation Court today…

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Divorce Court McGUINNESS v McGUINNESS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 9

Edward Joseph McGuinness, filter of Bowser-street, Broadmeadow, petitioned for divorce from Rath May McGuinness…

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Referee Not 'Stood-Over' By Stadium, Court Told

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY: Stadiums Pty., Ltd., had made no attempt to "standover" former boxing referee, William Richard Henneberry, Mr. G. T. Sullivan (for Stadiums Pty., Ltd.) said at the Workers' Compensation Court today…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 9

DRIVER FINED.—Ronald Stephen Haddow, 29, lorry-driver, was fined £10 for having driven a car in Hunter-street,…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 June 1953 · page 4

Charles Brierley, 50, manager, was remanded to August 27 on £20 ball on a charge of having driven a car at…

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Industrial Court (Before Mr. H. Isles, Chief Industrial Magistrate)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1953 · page 4

Frederick W. Dando, of Wollombi-road, Cessnock, was fined £5, with £1/7/ costs, for having allowed a boy aged 15 to carry a 70lb bag of sugar…

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Prisoners Before Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Six of the 12 prisoners who attempted to escape from Grafton Gaol last Sunday appeared…

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£2500 Award Over Theft Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1953 · page 3

A man who claimed damages for malicious prosecution was awarded £2500 by a Supreme Court jury in Maitland yesterday. The man, Ernest William…

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Police Say Man Drank Thallium

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.— Police allege that a 37-year-old naval petty officer tr[?]d to commit suicide in Newcastle on May…

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Court To Control A.E.U. Poll

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—The Industrial Registrar (Mr. J. E. Taylor) to-day granted a request by 1816 members of…

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Fight Referee K.O.'d. in Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—William Richard Henneberry, former boxing referee at Sydney Stadium, shouted at Judge Conybeare in the Workers' Compensation Court…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1953 · page 13

BOUND OVER.—George Raymond Warren, 39, lorry driver, who pleaded "Guilty" to having driven a lorry in…

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Stay Of Execution Rejected By Court Rosenbergs May Die To-day In Electric Chair

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 20 June 1953 · page 1

WASHINGTON, June 19, A.A.P,—The Supreme Court to-day overruled the stay of execution granted to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the condemned atom spies…

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2 Gaoled for Gold Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 3

PARIS, June 21. A.A.P.—Paris Court last night sentenced to five years' imprisonment two men accused of having…

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Four Years' Gaol For Soldier

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 1

TOKYO, June 21. A.A.P.-Reuter — The British Commonwealth Forces announced to-day that an Australian…

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S.m. Railways Case for Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 2

The secretary of the South Maitland Railways Association (Mr. Hugg) said today that the…

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Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. H. Hardwicke, S.m.) Drove Under Influence

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 4

Richard Turnbull Henderson (45) fisherman, was fined £15 on a charge of having driven a car on the Pacific Highway,…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 9

Archibald Kennedy, licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, at Maitland, was fined £4 with 12s costs for selling liquor on…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Rode Under Influence

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 10

Mervyn Henry Allard (37), laborer, was fined £15 for having ridden a motor cycle and sidecar outfit in Lambotn-rd…

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Court Grants Vagrant's Gaol Request

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 June 1953 · page 8

A one-armed man who walked into Maitland police station and asked to be locked up because he was cold and…

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