American Reds Taken to Gaol
BALTIMORE, Wednesday.-- Six minor-ranking Communist leaders were taken into custody by U.S. marshals yesterday to…
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Courts & crime, 1953
1,370 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 7 of 69
Theft of Motor Cycle Cowra Case
COWRA, Tuesday: At the Cowra Court today, Raymond Charles Munning and William Frederick Bright, both of Sydney, were charged with…
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WESTPORT (Con.), Wed.-- The raped, strangled body of a blonde former actress was found in her lonely home here,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: In a desperate bid for freedom, notorious gunman, Antonio Martini, leapt 35 feet from the wall of Parramatta Gaol today, but he was recaptured when he broke his ankle as he landed…
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After an Orange woman had lodged a complaint about the treatment of sheep a police constable and an R.S.P.C.A. official yesterday inspected the sheep on a property on the…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—Derek William Bentley, 19 years old electrician, was hanged today…
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LONG BEACH (Calif.) Wednesday: A young father and mother—expecting a second child soon—were in gaol yesterday on charges of selling their first…
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BALTIMORE, Wednesday: Six miner-ranking Communist leaders were taken into custody by US marshalls yesterday to begin serving…
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An all day sitting of the Bathurst Court is expected today. Cases listed for hearing include four charges of false pretences against a man who…
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NEW YORK, Thursday.--Police said yesterday they had arrested a 29-year-old negro who had admitted…
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London (A.A.F.).--Nineteen-year-old Derek William Bentley was hanged at Wandsworth, Gaol yesterday morning…
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Police Commissioner Delaney today delivered a strongly-worded "pep talkit" to 150 detectives. Although the tone of Mr. Delaney's…
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BRISBANE, Thursday: A detective told the Court today that a man had approached him in a Rockhampton street and said that…
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A man released from Lithgow lock up on Wednesday after serving six days' hard labor was sent, back to serve…
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PARRAMATTA, Thursday: At a special court held in Parramatta Gaol today, five prisoners were sentenced on charges of attempting to escape…
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SYDNEY, This Aft.-- Police are investigating whether a letter sent to a murdered girl's…
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The list of electors as shown by the revision of the original roll of electors made in 1952 for the Shire of Abercrombie was presented at yesterday's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Negro on Murder Charge Woman's Death
NEW YORK, Thursday: Police said yesterday they had arrested a 29-years old negro who had admitted strangling to death a former actress…
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NEW YORK, Friday.-- The play "Tobacco Road," under censorship and legal fire. in Vancouver British Columbia…
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A man with a broken leg in plaster was alleged in Wellington Coroner's Court on Wednesday to have fatally stabbed his father-in-law on December 27 after an argument…
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