Hundred Years Of Gaol Sentences
Sydney, March 18.—A man who had been convicted more than 100 times and received gaol sentences totalling almost 100 years…
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Courts & crime, 1952
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Intent to Murder Charge
He lifted the rifle and pointed it at my chest. I threw my right shoulder side-on and he fired." That was how William John Powell described the incident in which he received a…
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Following a collision between a bus and a lorry last night, a man was charged with falling to stop after an…
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In the Licensing Court yesterday Mr. G. T. Garnsey. S.M., granted an application by Mrs. Mary Agnes Crosby to have her name endorsed…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youth Gets Five Years Gaol Held Up Women With Toy Pistol
Sydney, March 18. — A youth who held up two women in a shop with a toy pistol was sentenced to five years gaol in the Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Evidence in Attempted Murder Charge Mossgiel Man Wounded by Rifle Bullet
Mr. G. T. Garnsey, S.M., yesterday heard police evidence against Allan George Malcolm Thompson, Mossgiel postmaster, who has been charged with shooting at John William Powell on February 23 with intent to murder him. The case…
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The fifteenth vagrant to appear before the Court of Petty Sessions during this sitting. Sidney Joseph Day, was yesterday…
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In the Warden's Court yesterday. Mr. G. T. Garnsey, S.M., granted an application by Rajee Parhry for suspension of labor conditions on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Trial Jury Fails To Agree
Sydney, March 19.—A murder trial jury in the Central Criminal Court today failed to agree on a verdict after nearly six hours…
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John William Powell, the victim of a shooting incident at West Lor Station on February 23 last, was rigorously cross-examined by Mr. E. R. Hudson at yesterday's hearing of the charge…
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Def.-Sgt. Mabbutt told the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday that Alan George Malcolm Thompson had told him he could prove intimacy between his wife…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Deputy Chief Of N.S.W. Police
Sydney, March 20. — Superintendent Colin. John Delaney has been appointed Deputy Commissioner of the N.S.W. Police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Breach of Promise New Angle Revealed In Court
Sydney, March 19.—A man who said his wife had proposed to him and offered him £6 a week if he married her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£1500 Theft in Adelaide
Adelaide, March 21.—At Torrensville factory of Hansen and Yuneken Ltd., master builders, cracksmen last night cut a gaping hole…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Judge Had Pass to Enter Court
New York, Friday. — Even the judge had to show a patt before he could get into the court where the trial of Willie Sutton on a 64,000 dollar bank robbery charge began…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →South Africa Faces Crisis Court Rules Against Colored Voters Act
Capetown, March 21.—South Africa faces a grave constitutional crisis following yesterday's…
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Constable E. Dehn, who has been stationed at Tibooburra forsome time, Tibooburra for some time…
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London, Sunday. — The. ethical committee of the British Medical Association upheld the convention that a doctor's consulting room is "as sacred as a priest's confessional"—even if a patient is suspected of murder. Legally, a doctor in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Union Amends Rule Following Arbitrations Court Declaration
Melbourne, March 22.—Thee Sydney branch of the Federated Clerks Union has amended a [?] which was declared tyrannical [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Summonses Against Strikers and Two Unions
Adelaide. — In a surprise weekend development summonses were served on striking members and on. the two unions concerned in the strike over the Galvin metal trade award, which has disrupted work at the S.A. factories of Kelvinator Aust. Ltd…
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