Sessions and District Court
The Court of Quarter Sessions and District Court will be opened at the Courthouse tomorrow. Quarter Sessions…
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Courts & crime, 1952
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Pole Jailed for Murder Attempt
Adelaide.—A Polish carpenter (30), living at Rosewater, was jailed for 10 years in the Criminal Court today for the attempted murder of his German wife (26), the bride…
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An auction will be held at the Police Station on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock to sell unclaimed property that has been handed to…
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John William Powell, stripped to the waist at the Court of Quarter Sessions today and displayed to the jury scars allegedly made by a bullet, which entered his right arm and came out…
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A long list of cases will be heard by Judge R. Le Gay Bhereton in the Court of Quarter Sessions commencing at the Court House today. The list includes five criminal charges for trial, eight appeals against…
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New York, Tuesday.—A 17-year-old team manager for a Knoxville, Tennessee, high school baseball team…
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Capetown, Tuesday.—More than 100 extra police have arrived in Capetown in the past three days to reinforce the local contabulary. At least 40, all in civilian…
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John William Powell, stationhand, told the Quarter Sessions Court yesterday of shooting at West Lor Station, near Mossgiel. He alleged he was wounded by Alan George Malcolm…
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Station hand John William Powell yesterday told the Court of Quarter Sessions how he was shot in the arm by Allan George Malcolm Thompson at West for Station, Mossgiel, on February 23. Powell said in evidence that Thompson shot…
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A Jury was empanelled in the Quarter Sessions Court yesterday to try John Evan Iron Iene Hughes on charges of assault…
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Sydney.— A man was charged at Newcastle yesterday with the murder of his wife, who was the mother of…
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In the Quarter Sessions yesterday before Judge R. Le Brereton, Joseph Andrews was found guilty of…
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TOKIO, Wednesday. —A Japanese ragpicker thanked the Tokio police recently…
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Inspector J. E. Gilroy, officer-in-charge of the Broken Hil police subdistrict, has been advised of…
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Melbourne — All through the night convoys of police and army trucks rolled into the Marysville Base Camp to join today's big search for the six hikers missing in wild mountain country since Monday. The missing six—four men…
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Welshman John Evan I. I. Hughes, who was found guilty in the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, was sentenced to 12…
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A sale of unclaimed property will be held at the Central Police Station tomorrow…
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London, Thursday.—John Thomas Straffen, 21-year-old blonde maniac, who was held for strangling two little girls, was charged in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Courthorne, in Berkshire, tonight with the murder of a third girl…
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A JAPANESE POLICE. MAN (centre) bends and protects his head with his hands as head…
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Montreal, May 5.—Hundreds of prisoners looted the canteen end Started fires in he chapel and in the telephone switchboards in a…
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