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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 67 of 125

2 Women Gaoled For Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 4

MELBOURNE: A 44-year-old divorcee was sent to gaol today for 18 months for assaulting the wife of a man with whom she had been having a love affair…

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Arrested on Visit to Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 5

MANILA, Mon. (O.S.R.) —A 39-year-old married woman, wanted by police on at least four charges of…

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Murder Victim Crete Migrant

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Sunday.—C.I.B. Homicide Squad detectives are trying to trace the movements of a New Australian steelworker who was found beaten…

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Police Had To Leave Meeting

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 6

JOHANNESBURG, Mon. (A.A.P.). — Five detectives were forced to leave a public meeting yesterday…

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Police Drag River For Body

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police are dragging sections of the Hawkesbury River, near Peat's Ferry bridge, for the body of…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H D. See, S.m.) Traffic Offences

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 July 1954 · page 9

Penalties were:— Not give way at Intersection: Wallace John Shaw Thompson, of Eddy St., Hamilton, and…

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Golf Links Murder Theft Motive Suspected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 3

WOLLONGONG, Monday.—Police believe robbery was the motive for the murder of Henry Charles Liolios, 51, at Wollongong on Friday night…

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Stop Press Mail Bag Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 16

SYDNEY: Detectives investigating the £30,000 Katoomba mailbage robbery have detained two men for questioning One man was deatined…

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Two Women Gaoled For Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Two women were gaoled in the Criminal Court to-day, one for 18 months, the other for…

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Child Theory In Lithgow Store Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 3

LITHGOW, Monday.—Police believe thieves used a child to help them break and enter business premises in…

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Victorian Police

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 8

MELBOURNE: The Victorian Government has approved an increase of 850 men in the police force…

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A.N.A. Official Admits £17,000 Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 4

PERTH, Monday.—When the charge against a former Australian National Airways accountant, Redmund Hurley…

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Cessnock Court Traffic Fine

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 16

Matthnew Rutteman, of Thros-by St. Wickham was fined £2 right-hand turn safely at the…

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Police Search For Three Young Girls

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Detectives and police are searching for three 13-year-old girls who have been missing from…

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Rigby Says Police Smelled Of Drink

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY: Commercial artist Alan Pierpont Rigby (53,), told the Quarter Sessions Appeals Court today that Constable Clive Curtayne smelled strongly of liquor when arresting him on Feb. 18. Rigby said he was still…

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1200 New Australians To Be Questioned For Murder Clue

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 1

WOLLONGONG: Police today began a systematic quiz of 1200 New Australians living in this district in an attempt to solve the golf links murder. Among those being…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 7

THEFT OF MONEY.—John White, 19, labourer, was fined £15 for having stolen, at Mayfield, on Friday, £2/2/, the…

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Maitland Court Before M. F. R. Wood, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 6

REMANDED.—Clarence William Appleby, 37, cattle dealer, of Tennyson-street, Beresfield, was remanded till August 16 on…

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Police Say Dinghy Used In Stealing

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY. — Three men yesterday used a dinghy to steal 250 metal castings from Cockatoo Dock…

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Foster Mother Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 July 1954 · page 9

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—Vivienne Phyllis Ada Flower, 31, was to-day sentenced to four months' gaol for having…

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