Murder Charge in S.a. Court
Adelaide — When the hearing of the Torrensville murder case was resumed in…
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Courts & crime, 1953
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Alleged Theft
A 24-year-old miner was remanded by Mr. S. K. Trees in the Court of Petty Sessions today on a stealing…
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Sydney.—A 21-year-old laborer faced five counts of manslaughter and four other charges in Redfern…
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Stanley Vaugnan Lawrence, who is at present serving sentences in Victoria, will be extradited to…
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Sydney. — Stanley Raymond Vaughan (27), married, of Bushranger's Creek, near Wellington, was…
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Tokio, Tuesday.—Mrs. Dorothy Smith, charged with the murder of her soldier husband last October, spent most of the afternoon and evening before her…
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Arthur Gould (24), of Chloride Street, was yesterday remanded in the Police Court on a charge of…
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Newcastle, January 7.—A man cut his wife's thro[?]t with a carving knife and then committed suicide by…
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Police Inspector A. J. Byers arrived here last night from Narrandera. He succeeds Inspector…
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Adelaide, Jan. 7.—When the hearing of a charge of murdering Zora[?]Kusic (20), single, at her shack at…
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London, Wednesday. — A George Cross, two George Medals, a British Empire Medal, and the King's…
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Sydney.—Police climbed down a clift face, over slippery rocks, to recover the body of a powerfully built New Australian at Bundanoon Gorge today…
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New York, Wednesday—A 750,000dollor damages suit brought by Alice Terry, star of the silent screen, over the way she had been portrayed in the…
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Arthur Gould (24), laborer of 181 Chloride Street,appeared before Mr.W.H. Hall S.M. in the court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a charge of stealing one movie…
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A 38-year-old laborer who pleaded guilty to a vagrancy charge before Mr. W. H Hall, P.M., in the Court of…
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Sydney, Jan. 8.—A man on leave from a mental institution bashed his wife to death with a sledge…
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Inspector Third Class A. J. Byers, formerly of Narrandera, has now taken up duty at Broken Hill as…
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A- 47-years-old man who has a long list of convictions for being drunk told Mr. W. H. Hall, S.M., in…
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Sydney—Complaints by Churchmen about Sunday liquor trading and illegal gambling today caused the Premier (Mr. Cahill) to order the police to tighten up gambling and drinking laws in Broken Hill. Mr. Cahill directed the Police Commissioner (Mr…
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SYDNEY, JANUARY 8.—PREMIER CAHILL TODAY ORDERED A "TIGHTENING UP" OF DRINKING AND GAMBLING CONDITIONS AT BROKEN HILL.Mr.Cahill, who is Ministerial head of the police force, issued the…
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