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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 56 of 117

Butter Fat Retained, Police Say

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

TAREE, Tuesday. — Wingham Rural Cooperative Society was charged in Tarce Court to-day with having,…

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Stop-Work On Court Ballot

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 July 1953 · page 4

Three thousand members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union in the Newcastle district will be idle for half a day on Thursday next week to attend a stopwork meeting called by…

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Court Control Of Postal Union Ballot

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

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Industrial Registrar (Mr. J. E. Taylor) to-day granted a petition by members of the…

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

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

REMANDED.—Mervyn Nott, 45, labourer, was remanded till July 31, on £20 bail, on a charge of having driven a car…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 July 1953 · page 13

Mary Ray (48), domestic, pleaded guilty to having, at Newcastle yesterday stolen two pairs of gloves valued at £1…

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Bond For Theft At Racecourse

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday. —Two men were charged in Central Court to-day on separate counts of stealing betting…

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Gaol For Thefts Of Wages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 10

A south who pleaded "Guilty" at Newcastle Court yesterday to 26 charges of having stolen money from the…

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Police Boys' Cycling

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 12

Newcastle Police Boys' Club will conduct its annual massed start cycling championship on Saturday…

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Court Order On Waterside Ban

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: Mr. Justice Kirby, in the Arbitration Court chambers, today made an order nisi directing the Waterside Workers' Federation to show cause why it should not lift a…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 9

SHOPLIFTING. — Mary Ray. 48, domestic, was fined £5 for having stolen two pairs of gloves valued at £1/5/8 from…

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Cut Asked for Rail Penalties New Move To Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The New South Wales Railways Department has asked the Arbitration Court to reduce week-end penalty rates for its traffic and…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m.) Obstructed Conductor

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 July 1953 · page 17

On a charge of having wilfully obstructed a railway officer in the lawful execution of his powers, John Alfred Burns…

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Bungate Sentenced To Death

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Sentence of death was passed today on a man whom Mr. Justice Dovey…

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Armed Police To Guard Royal Train

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 1

BELFAST, Fri. (A.A.P.) :More than 1000 armed police were spread out last night along s 90-mile railway from Belfast to loch Foyle over which the Queen and the Duke of Edinburah will travel today…

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Big Court List At Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 7

A long list of cases and appeals is set down for hearing at the Maitland Quarter sessions to open at East…

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New Evidence, Say Police Wrong Man 'Not Hanged' "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 1

LONDON, July 2.—Police believe they have additional proof that there was no miscarriage of justice in the 1950 hanging of Timothy Evans, the "Daily Express's"…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 5

RAIL FORFEITED. — Raymond Horace Brackley, 46. clerk, who failed to answer a charge of Indecent behaviour…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. K. Wardell. J.P. REMANDED)

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 3

John Dalley McGaurin (46) soldier, was remanded to July 10 on a charge of having driven a car in Watt-st.. Newcastle, on…

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Theory on Mail Bag Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1953 · page 6

GOSFORD, Friday. — Detectives believe money and postal notes stolen from a mail bag on a train bound…

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Man Guilty Of Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 July 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Sentencing a man to death in the Central Criminal Court to-day, Mr. Justice Dovey described…

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