Licensing Court
All district hotel licenses were renewed at Wednesday's sitting of the Licensing Court. Applications to conduct booth…
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Courts & crime, 1953
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Industrial Court
In the Industrial Court on Wednesday, Muswellbrook Butchering Co. were charged with failing to display the roster of…
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Ronald Vincent Pilkington appeared before the Police Court on Wednesday on two charges of stealing…
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The Russian action in executing a West Berlin man charged with organising Wednesday's anti-Communist riots in East…
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It was announced at the Cessnock District Court on Tuesday afternoon that a claim by Donald George James, of…
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KAIROBI: Mau Mau terror gangs launched their biggest assault, for more than two months at the week-end, when…
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Gresford Agriculture Burean [?]from the Commissioner of Police that at the present time It is not…
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SINGLETON: A horse was tended in evidence at the sitting of the Quarter Sessions in Singleton today…
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LONDON : An unusual defence more marked the opening day of the trial of John Reginald Halliday Christia, middle-aged clerk, at the Old bailey yesterday on a charge of having strangled his wife, Ethel, at their Notting Mill home. The case may prove one of the most sensational in British crime history…
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MELBOURNE: Police are searching for a young half-caste aboriginal who made a daring break from…
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SINGLETON: An 18-years-oId rabbiter from Muswellbrook yesterday claimed he made a statement…
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Allegations that he was threatened with a "bashing' by police were made by an 18-yearold rabbit trapper, who stood in the dock at Singleton Quarter Sessions yesterday, charged…
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Arrested on a charge of shooting a man, William Spencer Nolan, of Racecourse-road, South Cessnock, took police to a spot near the Bell bird Colliery-South Cessnock line and showed them where he hdi in bushed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Christie Trial: “Strangled Wife and Six Other Women” Ghoulish Details Told In Old Bailey Court Room
LONDON: An Old Bailey court room, amid intense quit, yesterday heard John Reginald Halliday Chiristie, 55, confess that he had strongled his wife and six other woman—and admit he could not remember whether there were other victims…
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Two boys, aged 14 and 13, appeared before Mr. A. S. McDonald, S.M., in Maitland court yesterday on several…
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SINGLETON: Judge O’Sullivan will, on Saturday, call up Victor Herbert Walker a John William Herbert, for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader A Tragic Anti-Climax Medical Witnesses Disagree on Christie Death House Murder Case Is Nearing Its End
LONDON: Medical witnesses were in clear disagreement on the state of mind of John Reginald Holliday Christie when yesterday’s hearing of the Notting Hill “death house” case closed for the day. Christia, 55-years-old London clerk, charged with strangling his wife, Ethel,…
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WAGGA WAGGA : A 16 years-old youth who allegedly held up a Wantabadgery grazier at gunpoint at his…
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Judge O'Suliivan on Wednesday night discharged a Singleton Quarter Sessions jury when it failed to reach a verdict in the trial of Ronald Barry Sohier whom the Crown alleged…
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A six-weeks'-old twin boy, whose parents were charged at Katoomba yesterday with neglect, died in…
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