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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 125

Ruxton Repeats Claim Of Police Injuries

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY: David Edward Studley-Ruxton repeated his claims today that he received his broken rib and other injuries while in custody. Studley-Ruxton, who is…

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Maitland Court Before Mr. F. R. Wood. S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 11

FOR TRIAL—Sidney John Taylor 49, manager, of Belmore road. Lorn, was committed for trial on August 23 on a charge…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 10

REMANDED. — William Gordon Herbert Edwards, 30, and Malcolm Ernest Staples, 23, labourers, were remanded till July…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 July 1954 · page 29

Leslie Allan Morrison (32), panel beater, was remanded to August 26 on £20 bail on a charge of driving a car in…

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Magistrate Commends Woman's Act

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 10

A woman who informed the police and gave evidence in an exposure charge was commended by Mr. F. R. Wood,…

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Gangster Girl Is Charged

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 15

LOS ANGELES, Thurs.—Virginia Hill, one-time girl friend of notorious gangster Bugsy Siegel, is under…

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Court Sittings Approved

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 6

The Governor (Sir John Northcott) has approved sittings of a district court at Scone on September 20 and a…

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Television As Aid To Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 5

BERLIN, July 1. A.A.P.— Dortmund police have successfully experiments with television in aiding them with their…

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Court Told Of Dock Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 2

The State Dockyard management has referred to the Industrial Registrar a strike by 60 members of the…

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Police Solve Mystery Of Salty Sake "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 5

TOKYO, July 1.—Drinkers in certain areas of Kyusllu Island have been complaining angrily of the salty flavour of…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 10

REMANDED: Laurence Joseph Wade, 33, boilermaker, was remanded till July 9 on a charge on having obtained a cheque…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 15

STOLE CAR PARTS Francis Albert Ball (22), clerk, was fined £10 for stealing £5 10s worth of car parts from…

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Gaol Printer Aids Convict; Pay Reduced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.— Horace James Stanton, 45, photographer and overseer of printers at Pentridge Gaol,…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1954 · page 8

REMANDED.—Wilfred Seaborn, 36, labourer, was remanded till August 5, on £30 bail, on a charge of having stolen, at…

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R. Terrace Court Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 July 1954 · page 15

FOR TRIAL.—Keith Johnson, 28, labourer, and Douglas John Harry Wilson, 31, labourer, were committed for trial on a charge…

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Air Force Colonel Found Thrill In Burglary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 July 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK. July 4. A.A.P.—An Air Force colonel arrested at Las Vegas (Nevada) yesterday had admitted having committed several robberies "for a thrill," police said. The colonel, Robert Orr,…

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On Murder Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 July 1954 · page 4

PAULINE YVONNE PARKER, 16 (left), and Juliet Marion Hulme, 15, leaving a magistrate's court in Christchurch, after having been charged with the murder of Pauline's mother, Mrs. Honora Mary…

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Dockyard Dispute For Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 July 1954 · page 3

Conciliation Commissioner Galvin will preside at a conference in Sydney tomorrow on the strike by…

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Mother 'Dying': Plea To Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 July 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY: A man, a witness in the Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission, appealed in Central Court today that no action be taken on a bond he had broken, so that he could…

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£50 Fine For Stealing Motor-Cycle

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 July 1954 · page 2

For stealing a £75 motor cycle a French immigrant was fined £50 with £7 6s witnesses' expenses and…

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