Reds’ murder and revolution plot foiled
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 3
MIAMI (Florida), Mon.: A Communist plot to kill General Anastasio Somoza, the President of Nicaragua, failed because a shipment of arms to Guatemala from Poland did not arrive in time,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Their Bare Feet Gave Police the Right Clue!
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 16
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Two young women escapees from Pentridge Gaol were located by police, walking barefooted at Albert Park shortly before midday today, and were caught after a short chase along the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Court still has to decide on Susan
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 16
MELBOURNE, Mon.: The State Full Court today reserved its decision on the appeal by a Warrak grazier and his wife against the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →In Albury Court Yesterday Chef’s “specially” was false pretences: S.M.
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 9
His 13th conviction olso proved unlucky for a 43-year-old chef whose âspecialtyâ was described as false pretences in yesterdayâs Albury Court of Petty Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →“Jackie” Goes Back to Gaol
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 18
DARWIN, Tues.: On a charge of having escaped from custody native murderer Jackie Briyalang was sentenced to two…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →An acting postmaster sent to gaol
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 2
DARWIN, Tuesday: The acting postmaster of the Darwin RAAF station was sentenced to 10 yearsâ imprisonment today after having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death Sentence; Train Murder
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tues.: Ronald Vincent Holl, 24, today was sentenced to death for the murder of C.S.I.R.O. scientist Olaf Perkman. The Central Criminal Court jury returned a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judge’s threat to gaol solicitor: Inquiry clash
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 20
SYDNEY, Tues.: Mr. Justice Dovey today threatened to god solicitor John R. Poole for contempt of court at the Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission. After Mr. Poole had raised his voice in…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Young mother charged with the abduction of her two young daughters
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 6
BRISBANE, Tues.: A woman was charged in the Police Court today with having abducted her two daughters. The woman, Heather Bell…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Constable Dies From Injuries
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 1
SYDNEY, Wed.: A police constable who killed a man when he was chasing a speeding vehicle last night died early this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →District Court verdicts totalled £273
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 10
Verdicts totalling £271 were awarded by Judge Brennan in undefended District Court Motions yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Jabbed in face with broken bottle, man fells court
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 2
SYDNEY, Wed. : A man who was jabbed in the face with a broken bottle had his eye so severely injured it had to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →State C. P. leader’s son appointed District Court judge
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 7
SYDNEY, Wed.: Sydney barrister, Mr. John Michael Bruxner, was today appointed a judge of the District Court…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Australian admitted shooting a taxi-driver, taxi-driver, court told
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 16
ORANGE, Wed.: A 25-year-old New Australian had admitted shooting an Orange taxidriver and then going to the pictures, a detective said in Orange Coronerâs Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Police Promotions Announced
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 6
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Police Commissioner Delaney today announced the following promotions: Sergeants, 3rd class, to sergeants…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Sent to Gaol on False Pretences Charge
The Observer · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 2
Edward John Peirl, a 43-year-old chef, of no fixed address, who pleaded guilty to a false pretences charge in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sentence of Death for Train Murder
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 2
A 24-year-old labourer was sentenced to death on Tuesday, June 1st, for the murder of a Government scientist on the Southwest mail train on February 20. The labourer is Ronald Vincent…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Albury Quarter Sessions Yesterday Former Holbrook farmer to be sentenced
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 10
Sidney John Warmer, 53-year-old former Holbrook farmer, was yesterday convicted of a charge of causing grievous bodily harm by negligent driving by an Albury Quarter Sessions jury…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Full police honors at constable’s funeral
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 2
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Full police honors were accorded Constable Cecil Sewell at his funeral today. He lost his life chasing a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Communism ‘mixture’ in court proceedings
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 11
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Melbourne branch of the Waterside Workersâ Federation was not controlled by Communists, the general secretary of the W.W.F. (Mr. Jim Healy) told the City Court…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →