Youth Charged With Theft Of £2220 From Bank
SYDNEY: Terrance Andrew Watson, 18, clerk, of Dennison-street, Hamilton, was charged in Central Court with having…
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Courts & crime, 1954
954 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 48
Angry Mob Menaces Police
SYDNEY: An angry crowd menaced vice-squad police early today when they raided a La Perduse,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Slayer of Trotsky chose gaol
NEW YORK.—The star convict of Mexico City Gaol became eligible for parole this week, but he chose…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Order Shops To Close
SYDNEY: police swooped on many shops in the King’s Cross area yesterday, and ordered them to dose, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burglary At High Street Cafe
A quantity of cigarettes and tobacco as well as £7 cash was stolen last night from Comino’s Cafe,…
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SYDNEY: A Macquarie-street specialist, Dr. Robert Alexander de Castro Basto, 55, was remanded at Central Court to-day until January 11 on a charge of having attempted to murder his three-years-old…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Problem For Danish Police
COPENHAGEN: If a Dane wants to get somewhere quickly he just grabs the nearest bicycle parked along…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prisoners in Gaol Brawl
SIDNEY in a fight in Bathurst Gaol this morning one prisoner stabbed another, seriously injuring him…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Arrest Man on Wounding Charge Sydney
A young man who disappeared into the bush following the shooting of two women in a farmhouse at Conbaning, near Temora, yesterday, was arrested quietly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Aid in Bid to Stop Marriage Father Seeks To Stop Licence Being Issued
LONDON: The desperate bid by a millionaire’s daughter and her ex-Etonian lover to marry in Scotland took a dramatic turn yesterday when the father obtained o temporary court order refusing the issue…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged With Breaking Into Shop
Colin Johnson Smith, of Gas-street, was charged at Singleton Court with breaking and entering the shop of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Traffic Breaches Fines Imposed at Police Court
At the Muswellbrook police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., Austin Bourke was charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Father Abandons Court Action
LONDON:. Don Antehor Patino, the Bolivian millionaire, yesterday abandoned court action to prevent the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More cases In Maitland Court
Cases head at Maitland court during 1953 shows an increase over the previous year, according to [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Magistrate Returns to Duty
The legal profession and police welcomed back Mr. F. [?] Wood, S. M., at [?] court this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rugger "Roughs" Get Gaol
LONDON. — While a panel of "experts'' debates the question of rough play in English Rugby League,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Committed On Charge Of Stealing
A 20-years-old labourer was committed this morning for trial at Maitland Quarter Sessions in February on a charged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Migrant Remanded On Theft Charge
A new Australian was remanded on bail of £150 to January 25, on charges of stealing a motor cycle and of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Magistrate Astounded At Potency of State’s Liquor
A policeman and a Gretsman in a taxi, chased an irrationally driven Army jeep from Harper’s Hill to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Showed Whip Weals To Court
MELBOURNE: A 21-years-old North Melbourne housewife to-day pulled down her jumper to show a court ugly, red weals which she alleged were inflicted by her husband, who used a home-made plastic whip…
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