Former Constable Sent To Gaol
NEWCASTLE, Mon.--A former police constable was found guilty of breaking, entering and stealing in the…
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Courts & crime, 1954
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Timber Firm in COURt
A prosecution against G. A. Duncan Pty. Ltd., timber merchants, of Grafton, for unlawfully placing…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--A beautiful 22-year-old model, Shirley Patricia Beiger, was remanded without bail at Central Court on a charge of murdering a bookmaker's clerk. The dead man, Arthur…
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BATHURST, Tues.--Footprints found near the scene of a murder at Walang, 15 miles from Bathurst, were…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.-Persons who refuse to appear, or testify, or produce documents before the Royal Commission on Espionage, will be liable to up to three months' imprisonment…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--The Supreme Court to-day refused bail to Sydney model, Shirley Beiger (22), who…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. -- Associated Newspapers Ltd., and the executive editor of the "Sun" were cited for alleged contempt to-day in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Court Days Wanted at Coffs Harbour
More court days are wanted at Coffs Harbour because of the delay, in hearing cases listed. This was discussed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"Peace Marchers" Turned Back Entry Into Damao Refused By Police
BOMBAY, Sunday.-- Indian police to-day turned back about 1200 Indian Socialist "peace marchers" who were attempting to enter the Portuguese settlement of Damao, north of Bombay…
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A woman and a man involved in assault crossactions at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Said Magistrate Used As Catspaw
SYDNEY, Mon.--Police were trying to use Mr. Beavers, S.M., as a "catspaw," solicitor John Poole said in Central Court to-day…
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COFFS HARBOUR, Mon. --More court days are wanted at Coffs Harbour because of the delay in…
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An application By the lessors, E. M. and E. E. Bender, for the determination of the rent of premises at 121…
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SYDNEY, Mon.—The Full Arbitration Court to-day imposed the maximum fine of £500 on the Boilermakers' Society of Australia for contempt, in refusing to…
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Clinton Roy Naylor 25, bus driver, of no fixed address, appeared at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…
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A photograph of MRS. NORMAN MACE nursing Peter, taken shortly after she heard over the radio at her Gosford (N.S.W.) home that MISS JOAN MURRAY had won her appeal for custody, of the child. Mrs. Mace burst into tears, but baby Peter (Miss Murray calls him Wayne), did not know…
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SYDNEY, Mon.-- A man had had an almost lethal dose of thallium administered to him by his wife…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.-- Police late this afternoon charged a 22-year old man, of Moore Park, Sydney, with…
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PERTH, Mon.-- A woman bad killed her son with an axe believing him to be mental, a police witness said…
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MELBOURNE, Monday. -- The story of how an armed murderer had held up the Deputy Governor of Pentridge Gaol, the chief warder and another warder, and…
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