Gaol, Fines—For Correct Answers
ROME , Jan. 1. A.A.P.—Five high school teachers were found guilty yesterday of taking bribes from students for the…
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Courts & crime, 1950
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Japanese "Germ War" Experts Get Gaol Terms
LONDON, Jan. 1. A.A.P.—A Soviet Military Tribunal at Khabarovsk (Siberia) sentenced four Japanese germ war experts to…
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SYDNEY: A 51-year-old colored seaman was charged today in Central Court with having…
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Newcastle police last year recorded 6478 charges, compared with 6557 in 1948. The charges included all arrests made in the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Detectives from Sydney and Melbourne to-day charged a Jamaican seaman at Central Police Station with the…
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SYDNEY: A man who struck a retired superintendent of police on the head with a bottle and…
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MELBOURNE: Oscar Skyers (51) a colored seaman, charged with the murder of Maisie Oakley (26) at Foo tscray last Friday, was remanded in the City Court today until Jan. 10. Skyers was not represented…
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LONDON: Clifford Edward Taylor, 44. travelling showman, was gaoled for two years at Middlesex Sessions for…
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CAIRO, Tues. (A.A.P.) : Heavily-armed police will stand guard from dawn today when 5,000,000 Egyptians go to the polls for the first election in five years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m) Offensive Behavior
Frederick James Cobby pleaded guilty to having behaved in an offensive manner in Main St. Cessnock on Dec. 31 and was fined £2 10s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Harawicke, S.m.) Played Dice
Harold Ward, 39, laborer, pleaded guilty to being the keeper of a common gaming house in Scobie St., Stockton, on Dec. 31 was fined £30…
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SYDNEY.—Two men took a man into Hyde Park early to-day, cut a pack of cards and told the man he had lost 15s…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—John Austin in Conlon, 34, carpenter, was sentenced to two months' gaol by Mr. Hawkins, S.M., at Central Court…
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"I want to make a statement. I am in it up to my ears and I know I'll cop the rope, but by cripes I'm not go ing to get it on my own. I am going to take Diver with me," James Muir was alleged to have said to Detective Pollock, when charged with murder at Newcastle Police Station on Dec. 10…
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PARIS, Wed. (A.A.P.): A wealthy Brazilian, Don John Carlos da Silva Ramos (25), was charged last…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Oscar Skyers, 51, Jamaican seaman, was remanded to January 10 when he appeared in the City Court…
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Inspector G. Noble, who has been in charge of the Newcastle sub-district since October, 1947, will retire on Jan. 23…
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Decreases in the number of cases of assault, breaking and entering and stealing are shown in the annual crime…
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The Superintendent of Traffic (Mr. Lawrence) has withdrawn permission for cycle races on Nelson's Bay-road…
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MANCHESTER, (New Hampshire), Tues. (A.A.P.): A Grand Jury of 21 middle-aged men today indicted Dr. Herman Sander on a charge of first degree murder. Dr. Sander (40) has been ac-…
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