Alleged Murder with Axe
SYDNEY: Police alleged in the Burwood Coroner’s Court today that a man had murdered his son with an axe…
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Courts & crime, 1953
907 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 46
Man Not Guilty of Stealing Case From Muswellbrook
After retiring for little more than half an hour, a Singleton Quarter Sessions jury on Tuesday found Horace Raymond…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Demolition of hotel ordered by court
The full bench of the Licensing Court sitting at Singleton on Wednesday ordered the demolition of the existing building known as the Agricultural Hotel and the erection of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Searching Back Street Of London For “Jack The Strangler”
LONDON: Scores of detectives are engaged in a search of cheap back-street lodging house in London’s West End where “Jack the Strangler,” London’s latest man murderer, is believed to be in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Body Found on Road Police Charge Driver With Serious Offence
The body of a young man, Malcolm Murdock Mackenzie (25), was found on the Scone-Bunnan road early on Sunday morning last, death having taken place…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Guinea Police For Coronation
Twenty-five native New Guinea policemen, wearing their traditional blue [?] uniforms and skirts, will arrive…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Believe There May Be Seven Victims Of Strangler
LONDON: Detectives found the remains of the sixth, and possibly the seventh, victim of the London [?] maniac strangler in the “house of murder” at Notting Hill yesterday…
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A sitting of the Maitland District Court will be held at the East Maitland courthouse to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Joining Police In Queensland
SINGLETON: Mr. Doug Hipwell has been successful in his application to enter the Queensland police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Find Stole[?] Property
Police making investigations at Weston last night about a robbery at the Marontte Corporation,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Christie Charged with Murder London
—John Christie, 55year-old transport clerk and quarry of London's biggest manhunt, was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Stealing Remanded to Dungog
Norman F. Gillett and David W. B Reid were charged in Maitland with stealing air valves, lead gaskets, etc., to…
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CESSNOCK: The hearing was continued to-day of the case in which a father and two sons face charges…
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SINGLETON: As a result of efforts by the Singleton Chamber of Commerce representations will be made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Doyle Gaoled For Contempt Of Court
SYDNEY: Reginald Aubray Doyle, 41, bankrupt punter and investor, was sent to Long Bay Gaol yesterday for an indefinite period. The Federal Judge in Bankruptcy (Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London’s Man-hunt Ends In Christie’s Arrest And Murder Charge
LONDON: John Christie, 55-years-old transport clerk and quarry of one of the biggest manhunts ever staged in Britain, was charged last night with the murder of his wife, Ethel Christie, aged 54…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sentenced to 20 Years for Murder
Maitland, Thurs. (A.D.C.) When Hairy Hoffman was sentenced to 20 years in murder of Mande Casson he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Theft of Tykes and Masonite
On Friday night or early on Saturday morning last seven heavy duty truck tyres as well as a carburettor…
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John Reginald Hall 1 day Christie, 55, appeared in the West London Magistrate's Court yesterday on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scone Court of Petty Sessions
Before a local Bench at Scone Court of Petty Sessions on Monday last appeared Cecil George Rowland, charged with, at…
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