Manhunt For 3 Ballarat Gaol Ecapees
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Three of the five prisoners who escaped from Ballarat Gaol yesterday have not yet been recaptured, despite an…
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Courts & crime, 1950
2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 136
Vic. Gaol-Breakers May Have Stolen Car
MELBOURNE: Three convicts who escaped from Ballarat Gaol after bashing the gaol governor on Saturday night are believed to be heading for Melbourne in a stolen motor car…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Laura Elsa Emms, 36, in Adelaide Court yesterday was remanded for a week on a charge of having murdered…
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SINGAPORE, Monday, (A.A.P.): Police last night cordoned off Kalang Airport and screened every…
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Lysaght's sub-branch of the Federated Ironworkers' Association decided yesterday to refer to the Arbitration Court the refusal by Lysaght's to find employment for Mr. R. C. Morgan, former…
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Newcastle District Tennis Association will hold a special meeting on February 20 to discuss the refusal of the District Park Tennis…
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LONDON, Feb. 12. A.A.P.—Surrey Magistrates were questioning a 68-year-old man on a charge of having used insulting words and…
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LONDON, Feb. 13. A.A.P.—After two trials, Charles Connolly, 26, at Liverpool to-day was found "Not guilty" of having murdered…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A rule nisi calling on the printer and publisher of the Communist newspaper, "Guardian," to show cause,…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A milk bar proprietress at Euroa told police she recognised a man who walked into her shop to-night as…
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LONDON: The National Council of Women, in conference at Harrogate, Yorks, recently deplored prison…
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PARIS, Tues. (O.S.R.): A new Henry Miller "scandal" is due to break in Paris any day, following seizure by police of part of the first edition of his new book, "Sexus," at the Terre de Feu…
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 13. A.A.P.—Ali Khalid, Director-General of Police, has been arrested after an unsuccessful pre-down attempt to…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Police alleged at Parramatta Court to-day that a man and a woman looked at a woman dying on the…
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PARIS, Tues. (O.S.R.): Police breaking into a three-storey villa in Versailles found it full of goats, chickens, ducks and cats. They also found £10,000 worth of gold francs and diamond,…
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DISCHARGED.—After evidence had been given by one witness, the Magistrate dismissed the information in the case in which Kenneth John…
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Pleading guilty to having discharged a rifle in a public place on Feb. 11, Kenneth George Bainbridge, laborer, was fined £2…
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SYDNEY.—An Army sergeant was yesterday sentenced to 90 days' detention and dishonorable discharge for having lost…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Herbert Jones, 66, building contractor, of Boronia-road, East Bankstown, was acquitted in the Quarter Sessions…
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LONDON, Feb. 14. A.A.P.—Andre Robineau, 25, a French consular official, was to-day sentenced at Sz[?]zecin to 12 years'…
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