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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 69 of 117

Promotions Of Police Challenged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 12

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Second-class Inspector Victor Hugh Turner, of Clarence-street police station, appealed…

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Police Talks On Methods

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—High police officials from all States will confer in Brisbane next week…

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Date Fixed For Police Appeal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 14

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The hearing of an appeal by former police sergeant S. D. Cameron would begin, before…

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Police Boys' Club Tech. High Opera

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 13

Police Boys' Club activities are in full swing in their new quarters at Wickham. 1. Czech migrant, George Uttendorfsky, playing table tennis last night. 2. One of the many spectacular choruses of members of the Newcastle Tech. High—all boys—at rehearsal last night for "The Gondoliers," which opens next week. 3. Police Boys' Club members watch Ian Miller, of Cook's Hill, practising on the heavy bag in the gymnasium. 4. Douglas Oliver, Dennis Harvey and Brian Lindus snapped in the library at the Police Boys' Club…

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Reds' Move Against Court Ballots

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 16

MELBOURNE: Communists will make a bid at the All-Australia Trade Union Congress next month to reverse union policy on Arbitration Court control of ballots…

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Gaol Term For Assault On Migrant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Selwyn Harold Everingham, 24, machinist, of Second-street, Clyde, was sentenced to four…

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Thallium Poisoning Mother-in-law Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mrs. Veronica Mabel Monty, mother-in-law of Robert John Lulham, was charged to-day with having administered thallium poison to…

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Man Sent To Gaol For Park Slaying

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 10

MACKAY, Thursday.—A 20-year-old railwayman was sentenced to-day to 12 years' gaol for having unlawfully…

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Border Murder Search Ends "Herald" Service

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

LONDON, August 6.—French and Spanish frontier police have called off their hunt for two bandits who machinegunned an English doctor and his wife…

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Court's Beer Price Order Challenged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Victorian Prices Commissioner (Mr. Waldron) will appeal to the State Full Court…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 10

EXCESS LOADING For having carried excess loads on motor lorries William G. Rickey of Denison St…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 11

REMANDED.—Vivian George Saunders, 35, contractor was remanded on £20 ball till September 15 on a charge of…

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9 Months' Gaol For Fraud

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1953 · page 8

One man was sentenced to nine months' gaol and another was given a bond by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., in…

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Court Changes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1953 · page 8

Beginning on August 18, a Clerk of Petty Sessions will visit Branxton each Tuesday and Wednesday, and will be…

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Man Paid £22 To Commit Murder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1953 · page 3

CHICAGO, August 7. A.A.P.—Police said to-day that a 43-year-old mother of 11 children had paid a soldier 50…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 August 1953 · page 8

REMANDED.— John Dalley McGuaran, 46, soldier, was remanded on £20 bail till September 18, on charges of…

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Heirloom Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Aug. 9. A.A.P.—Thieves stole, thousands of pounds worth of gold plate and heirlooms, including a…

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Migrant Charged With Stabbing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police charged a Lithuanian with murder after a woman had been fatally stabbed in a Surry…

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3 Women In Gaol Break

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE. Sunday.—Three young women escaped from Pentridge Gaol late to-night…

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Police Search For Assailant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police are searching for a man who stabbed another man in the stomach to-night…

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