Stronger Police Force For West Indies Test Ground
GEORGETOWN: A police riot squad will stand, by and police strength will be doubled when play is resumed…
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Courts & crime, 1954
954 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 48
Gruesome Find by G Edinburgh Police Family Attacked By Killer With Knife
LONDON: Detectives who burst into a drab tenement-flat on Tran Square in Edinburgh yesterday were confronted by a sight of gruesome, sickening tragedy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Chiefs Killed In Khartoum Riots Tribesmen Fight In Streets With Spears
KHARTOUM: Deathroll in the Khartoum riots rose last night to 30 and includes the British commandant of the Khartoum police (Colonel Harold McGuigan), who died from stab wounds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assault Case at Scone
In Scone Court of Petty Sessions last week a local Bench refused Thomas Eric Watts bail when charged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heard Play, Then Attempted Murder
LONDON: A map tried to strangle a woman after listening to a murder play “Night Must Fall” on the radio, Leeds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged With Assault On Old Man
KURRI KURRI: John McLaren, 28, was charged at Kurri Court to-day with having at Kurri on February 6,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Driver Blameworthy, Said Magistrate
In Kurri court to-day, Milton Maxwell Main, 20, of Congewai-street, Aberdare, pleaded guilty to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Barricaded Against Police
BRISBANE: Armed police yesterday surrounded a house after a man was reported to have barricaded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Divorce Petitions At Cessnock Court
CESSNOCK: Judge Amsberg heard a number of undefended divorce petitions at Cessnock District Court. Judge Amsberg had before…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Muswellbrook Police Court Landholders Prosecuted for Failing to Destroy Grasshoppers
John L. Davies pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to destroy grasshoppers under section 5 of the Noxious Insects Act. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Transfers
Constable F. Brown, well-known Rugby League player, has been transferred from Manly to the staff of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bandit Killed In Gaol By Mafia
PALERMO (Sicily): The dreaded Mafia struck through prison bars yesterday to kill another ex-member of the band…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mother-in-law Charges Against Son-in-Law Assault Case Hearing Charge Proved, but Dismissed
At the Muswellbrook Police Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday last, before Mr. A. S. McDonald, S.M., Rebecca Catherine McGahen Proceeded against Mervyn A. Baker on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Alleged Attack on Old Man Gase at Kurri Court
A man was, [?] till March 18 when' He appeated at kurri kurri Court yesterday on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Ramp an Asset
Dungog Municipal Council ganger Frank Partridge, and his men are to be complimented on their fine job in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged with Stealing
SYDNEY: A man arrested at Sutherland early this morning had been charged on a number of stealing counts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victorian, Local Men On Theft Charges
A Victorian find two Maitland men were charged before Mr. F. It Wood, S.M., this morning with having broken into the Singleton Co-operative Society store on or about February 22 and stolen goods valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Unlawful Assault Charge by Mother-in-law
A Singleton woman, Mrs. Rebecca Catherine McGahen, in Mnswellbrook Court last week charged her…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drugs Found In Flats By Police
NEW YORK: Police and agents of the Federal Narcotics Bureau, in raids on two New York flats found opium…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Search For Girl’s Attacker
SYDNEY: Police engaged a search for four hoodlums who allegedly raped 19-year-old girl on Saturday…
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