Gaol for Race Swindle
London, Wednesday: Four men were gaoled at the Old Bailey today for a racing swindle involving a switch…
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Courts & crime, 1954
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Second Murder Allege
New York, Thursday: John Krawczewicz (46), who served eight years in prison for killing his first wife, admitted…
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London: A police inspector who read Joye letters written to Lord Montagu of Beaulieu as a "Peeping Tom", a lawyer said…
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A deputation from the Chamber of Commerce conferred with the N.S.W Police Commissioner (Mr. C…
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Sydney: Without hearing addresses by counsel or summing up by Mr. Justice…
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The behavior of Broken Hill people on Thursday during the Royal visit compared more than favorably with that of crowds in other N..S.W. centres the Queen has visited…
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The behavior of Broken Hill people on Thursday during the Royal visit compared more than favorably with that of crowds in other N.S.W. centres the Queen has visited…
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Sydney: The theft of trees from Belanglo State Forest for sale as Christmas trees cost three men £3 each in…
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Melbourne: An attack on the wife of a company director by two other women was described by police in the…
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As a result of an Occident outside Penrose Park on November 1 last year, when the car he was driving collided with and severely damaged the car of the assistant officer in charge of the Broken Hill police, Inspector…
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Palermo (Sicily), Mon.: Gaspare Pisciotta, self-confessed slayer of the bandit king Salvatore Giuliano, was poisoned in his prison cell at Palermo on February 25, doctors…
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Sydney, March 22. — A woman charged with having abandoned her baby boy was remanded in Newtown Court…
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Sydney: The Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Dorey) barristers, police and David Edward Studley-Ruxton today inspected the Darlinghurst police station…
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Sydney, March 22. — David Edward Studley-Ruxton (32), who had alleged he was beaten repeatedly and violently by police today admitted to the Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Dovey) he…
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Sydney, March 23.—Edward Studley-Ruxton (32) told the Royal Commission today he had thought two detectives at Darling…
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Sydney: Mr. Solling, S. M., sentenced a man to six months in gaol for having assaulted his pregnant de facto wife…
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Melbourne: The mother of the f our-months.old baby found at the rear of a city theatre on March 5 chose…
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Brisbane: Detectives seeking the killer of a wealthy Mt. Morgan newsagent William Andrew Dingwall (50), fear that he may strike again…
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Sydney, March 24.—Dr. Alexander de Castro Basto (56) Macquarie Street eye…
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Brisbane, March 24.—A [?] years old butcher who stabbed his lover to death with a butcher's knife in a…
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