Native Killer Breaks Gaol
PORT MORESBY, Tues.; A native prisoner named Usamamdo has escaped from Lac gaol after murdering a fellow prisoner…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Courts & crime, 1954
1,347 stories in Murray's papers · page 35 of 68
Youth on Murder Charge
MELBOURNE, Tues.: Charged with having murdered Alan David Cuthbertson, 33, of Queenâs road. Melbourne, a male nurse, on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Migrant who fired shot up through bedroom floor to be sentenced
MELBOURNE, Tues.: A Czech migrant who crawled under a Poleâs house and fired a shot up through the floor of a bedroom was acquitted in the Criminal Court today on a shooting with intent to murder charge…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Police Hunt for Hit Run Killer
SYDNEY, Tues.: Police in country areas are searching for hit-run drivers who killed a man at Dareton near Mildura. and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police claim “The Body” bit a sergeant
BEVERLEY HILLS (California), Tues.: A police report alleges that actress Marie (âThe Bodyâ)…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Ex-p.o.w. to Be Court-martialled
SAN ANTONIO. Tues.: The army announced last night that Corporal Claude Batchelor, who first stayed with the North…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Seaman Charged with Murder Attempt
MELBOURNE, Wed.: A South African seaman who allegedly stabbed an English sailor told police to charge him with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Girls Charged with Woman’s Murder
WELLINGTON, Wed.: A 16-year-old schoolgirl and her companion were arrested at Christchurch today and charged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Beechworth Court Both Motorists Were Fined
Both motorists who were involved in a collision on June 8 were fined for traffic offences by Mr. J. C. Bell, SM,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Judge testifies in police court
MELBOURNE. Thurs.: A Justice of the Victorian Supreme Court entered the witness box at the Box Hill Court today and gave…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court Shorts
Minor traffic, stock and fish cries convictions recorded at Deniliquin Court of Petty Sessions this week:…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Magistrate Says Case of Danckert Is “Bewildering”
NORMAN Rex Danckert, of âLindiwa,â Deniliquin [?] was discharged from Deniliquin Court of Petty Sessions [?] 12.30 p.m. on Tuesday and a charge of driving [?] under the influenceâ against him was dismissed by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two teenage girls on murder charge
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thurs.: Juliet Marion Hulme, 16, second of two school girls arrested since the body of Mrs. Honora Mary Parker was found on a hillside in the Christchurch suburb of Cashmere on Tuesday, was…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Court List Was Heavy
Four cases (one part-heard) were adjourned from the [?] sittings of the Deniliquin Court of Petty Sessions [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →May be new Vic. police head
Major-General S. H. Porter, staff manager at the Myer Emporium, who may be new Victorian Chief Commissioner of General Porter, aged 49, is the C.M.F.âs member on the Military Board. The Chief Commissioner, Mr. A. M…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New judge for Compensation Court
SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Attorney General (Mr. Sheahan) announced today that Mr. Colman Wall had been appointed a judge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Several police officers already ‘cleared’ in probe
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Mr. Justice Dovey, in the Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission, said today that there was no evidence against three of the police officers charged, except that tendered by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Supreme Court reserves judgment in “baby case”
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Judgment in the Murray âbaby caseâ was reserved by the Chief Justice (Hon. K. W. Street) in the Full Supreme Court today. Mr. Justice Street said the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →In Albury Court Yesterday Bush fire brigade captain is fined: lit fire
Captain of the Brocklesby Rural Bush Fire Brigade was fined £5 in Albury Court yesterday on a charge of lighting a fire without a permit during a proclaimed bush fire danger period…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Car Driver Charged
SYDNEY, Fri.: A 45-year-old man was seriously injured when he was knocked down by a car in Annandale tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →