Child's Death Parents Charged with Neglect Katoomba
A six weeks' old twin boy, whose parents were charged at Katoomba yesterday with neglect, died in the Blue Mountains'…
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Courts & crime, 1953
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Court will sentence three men tomorrow
Singleton Quarter Sessions Court was adjourned on Wednesday until tomorrow morning at 9.30…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Senior O.K's Court to be reformed
A meeting of members will discuss the reopening of the Senior Court of the Methodist Order of Knights…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Today’s Leader National Serviceman Christie’s Plea of Insanity Rejected Self-confessed Murderer Sentenced To Death
LONDON: John Reginald Holliday Christie, 55, self-confessed strangles of seven women, was sentenced to death in London’s Old [?] last night after a jury of nine men and three women had rejected his counsel’s plea of insanity. Christie was changed only with the murder of his wife, Ethel, of their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court hears objection to Terminus Hotel licence renewal
The full bench of the Licensing Court in Singleton on Wednesday heard objections to the renewal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Court Action Verdict for Defendant Cross-action Also Fails
In the District Court yesterday, before His Honour Judge G. J. O'Sullivan, Allan Thomas Witt claimed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stipendiary Magistrate Transferred
There was little activity at Wauchope's regular Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday last when the Stipendiary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Company On Theft Charge
Police have issued a summons against the Wingham Rural Co-operative Society, Ltd., charging it with stealing butterfat worth £1476. A magistrate will hear the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Found Not Guilty of Cattle Stealing
Two Gloucester district men, charged with stealing cattle were found not guilty by a jury at the Taree Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Day in Gaol Worth £1 to Defaulter
The period of imprisonment for maintenance arrears will soon be at the rate of one day for every £1 owing…
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Gresford Agricultural Bureau has received advice from the Commissioner of Police that at the present time it is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two men sentenced to 3 years
Judge O'Sullivan at Singleton Court on Saturday sentenced two men to a total of three years gaol on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Walker given bond for horse stealing
Victor Herbert Walker, who was found guilty of stealing a horse by a Singleton Quarter Sessions jury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fined for Assault
Bernard Llewellyn Austin, 25, of Ann-street, Cessnock, was fined £2 and ordered to pay £2/2/ professional costs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£5 Fine for Stealing Fowl
On a charge of having stolen a fowl valued at 7/, the property of Shirley Baker, a young man was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Men Sentenced To 3 Years
Judge O'Sullivan at Singleton Court on Saturday sentenced two men to a total of three years' gaol on a stealing charge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Transfers
The following police in the North-eastern Division have, been transferred.— Sergeants H. R. V. Scott,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jury Disagrees Over Assault Charge Case From Muswellbrook
Judge O'Sullivan 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…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Mail Bags Missing Denial of Sydney Report of Theft
A report by Sydney radio and newspapers that mail bags destined for Muswellbrook had been stolen from a train on Friday…
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