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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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2 Charged Men May Fight Poll

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 9

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Two former Leichhardt aldermen charged with acting in civic office while disqualified…

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Police Boys' Club! For Wallsend

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 6

Wallsend Chamber of Commerce has decided to sponsor the erection of a Police Boys' Club in…

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Chief of the Women police

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 6

NEW POST. Mrs. Margaret Jeffrey (above) new officer in charge of the N.S.W. Women's Police Force, is…

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1300 Join Police Boy' Club

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 3

Cessnock Police and Citizens' Boys' Clubs will have about 1300 members when it opens on Feb. 3…

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Police Theory On Tunnel Blast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 11

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Police investigating an explosion which killed a man and injured four others at…

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First Round To The Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 2

Cost-of-living figures for the December quarter as reflected in the "C" series index show that the…

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Krupp Is Back At Court Again

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 27

ESSEN (O.S.R.): Every working day a bright red sports car drives into a reserved parking place at a huge and rather battered block of offices in the middle of the Krupp…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 11

ON BOND.—Without proceeding to conviction on a charge of having driven a cart in Lake-road, Wallsend, while…

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"Not Out After 9 O'clock on Night of Murder" Shirley Butler's Mother In Box

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mrs. Ethel Butler said to-day she did not leave home after 9 p.m. on the night her daughter, Shirley, was murdered. In earlier evidence two witness said they saw Mrs…

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

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 24

Arthur Underwood Alley (23), shunter, was remanded until Feb. 18 on £80 bail on charger of having caused grievous bodily…

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Woman Told 'Souveniring' Plain Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 4

Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., said at Maitland Court to-day that a detective was being particularly lenient…

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Men Charged With Beating Natives

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 11

NAIROBI (Kenya), Fri. (A.A.P.).—Two European police reservists, Michael John Sawyer (31), and…

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Gaol Bookie "Put In" For Welshing

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 12

LONDON: Warders, tipped off by a disgruntled punter, raided the Dartmoor cell of "Bookie Bill,"…

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Dance Club Quiz In Murder Hunt

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 5

LONDON,, Fri., (A.A.P.): Police yesterday continued their inquiries at an old-time dancing club at Coventry in a search for the knife and hammer murderer, of 43-year-old…

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Suicide After Police Call

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A musician had shot himself rather than keep an appointment with the Vice Squad, the…

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Poisoning Of Woman Baffles Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A man interviewed by C.I.B. detectives last night convinced them he knew nothing of the…

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Lost Goods at Police Station

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

Newcastle police are seeking the owners of a number of articles found in various streets in the district…

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'Bernborough Woman' Freed On Court Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY: Johanne Taks (50), who was once famous for the thousands of pounds she won and lost on Bernborough, today was discharged in Central Court on a charge of offensive behavior. Miss Taks, an Estonian…

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A.C.T.U. And The Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 2

Consciousness of the imperfection of the Australian arbitration system is by no means confined to the…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 11

REMANDED.—Leslie Noel Ball, 23, carrier, was remanded till Tuesday, on £100 bail on a charge of having stolen at…

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