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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 117

Union's Move In High Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday. — The Boot Trades Employees' Federation asked the High Court to-day to declare invalid…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 27 June 1953 · page 7

DANGEROUS SPEEI, — Donald James O'Brien, 24. labourer, was fined £10 for having ridden a motor-cycle at a speed…

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Charged With Manslaughter

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 2

A middle aged man was charged with manslaughter in Newcastle Court this morning and…

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£4000 Theft Of Jewellery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Thieves last night broke into the Dove Heights home of a city business woman and stole…

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Preferred Gaol In The West

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 9

BERNAU (West Germany): A Hungarian youth escaped from a Bavarian gaol here and fled home to…

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Broken Bottle Assault "Brutal And Vicious"

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: "Cowardly, brutal and vicious," said Judge Curlewis in the Quarter Sessions today in sentencing to five years' gaol a 39-year-old lift driver who had jabbed a broken bottle into the face of a sleeping man…

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Fourth Murder Trial For Sydney Watchman

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY: For the fourth time within four months a man stood in the dock in Central Criminal Court today and pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder. The man, Robert Henry…

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Stop Press Police Raid

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 1

JOHANNESBURG, June 28. A.A.P.—Armed police to-day raided an Indian conference at Sophiatown and dragged from…

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Sth. African Police Raid Meeting

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 6

JOHANNESBURG, Mon. (A.A.P.)—Seventy police with Sten guns, rifles, bayonets and spears yesterday…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 June 1953 · page 9

Three men charged with having assaulted Frank Wodecki and robbed him of a wrist watch were each remanded to…

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Brothers Sent To Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 8

Two brothers were sentenced at Newcastle Court yesterday to six months' imprisonment for having used a motor-cycle…

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Couple Charged With Slaying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday. — A Central Police Court magistrate to-day remanded Peggy Winifred Poile, 35, of…

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Cessnock Court (Before Mr. A. S. McDonald, S.m.) Assault Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 2

Bernard Austin of Ann-st., Cessnock, was fined £2 on a charge of having assaulted Alexander Whiting at Aberdare on June 27. Austin also was…

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Police Transfers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 2

The following police in the North-eastern Division have been transferred—Sergeants H. R. V. Scott,…

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Man Sent To Gaol For Wounding

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday.—Judge Curlewis told a 39-year-old lift-driver at the Quarter Sessions to-day that he had been…

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Jury Sees Scene Of Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Monday. — A Central Criminal Court jury to-day inspected a room in a Randwick guesthouse where…

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Police Appeal On Missing Launch

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 2

Inspector Rayner, of Newcastle police, yesterday asked fishermen and people spending holidays on the coast to watch…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 June 1953 · page 4

Ronald James Cornwall (20) and Arthur Cornwall (18) laborers, were remanded to appear at the Newcastle Court on July…

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Man Staged 'Robbery' To Cover Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 July 1953 · page 8

Detective Sergeant P. J. Cahill said in Belmont Court yesterday that a man charged with stealing money had told…

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Seaman To Pay £43 For Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 July 1953 · page 8

A seaman was fined £10 at Newcastle Court yesterday for theft and was ordered to pay £33/10/ compensation…

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