Six Years' Gaol
SYDNEY, Wed.--In the Quarter Sessions to-day, Judge Lloyd sentenced a car thief to six years' gaol…
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Courts & crime, 1954
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Priests Sentenced
BUENOS AIRES, Sun. -- Two priests were sentenced on Saturday, to five days' imprisonment in the…
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A charge of driving under the influence against Albert Anderson, 23, winch driver, of William street, South…
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Golfing equipment, money and other articles valued at about £300 were removed from the Grafton District Golf Club's clubhouse Sunday night or early…
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Lack of family accommodation at Grafton and South Grafton is hampering efforts to relieve…
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SYDNEY, Monday—The public gallery at the Central Criminal Court was packed when Sydney model, Shirley Patricia Beiger entered the dock this morning to…
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A young man who appeared before Mr. B. Hall, J.P., at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Shirley Beiger's mother, Mrs. Edith Pearl Beiger, sobbed "Thank God, thank God," when told her daughter had been acquitted of the…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—The Full High Court to-day declared a nullity a marriage ceremony at Grafton 23…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The amount of alcohol found in the body of a woman battered to death in a room at Mansions House, a Sydney private hotel, was the…
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DIGNE (France), Wed. -- A 49-year-old railway linesman yesterday accused his elderly father of murdering…
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LONDON, Wed.-- For the first time in the history of the Federation of Malaya Police, an…
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BRISBANE, Wed.--Police yesterday took a man's body from the church at Toogoolawah for a post mortem…
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LONDON, Wed.--Twenty-six-year old Australian showgirl, Fay Thompson, allegedly living as the wife…
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BRISBANE, Wed.--A man had broken down and cried in a Sydney street when accused of adultery with…
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John Stanley Petrie, a Naval officer from the H.M.A.S. Albatross, Nowra, was convicted at Coffs Harbour Court of Petty…
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"I haven't got a speedor That's my trouble," Jack Robinson Grant, of Coffs Harbour, told Constable W. R. Cooper…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—A young soldier, Donald Motbey (23), was acquitted by a Central Criminal Court jury to-day, of a charge of having murdered a woman in the Mansions House private hotel on August 25…
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MACLEAN, Friday. -- At Maclean Court of Petty Sessions before Mr. A. E. Capp. S.M., William…
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DIGNE (France), Fri.--A 77-year-old goat farmer, charged with the triple murder of the British…
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