Man Sentenced To Six Years' Gaol For Manslaughter
SYDNEY.—He could not understand why a man who earned more than the basic wage was content to live in the bush…
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Courts & crime, 1950
2,712 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 136
Moving Train Murder: Police Detain Man
BRISBANE, Thursday.— Police have detained a man at Alpha for questioning in connection with the murder of a stockman who was…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The Governor of Pentridge Gaol (Mr. J F. Edwards) has been suspended from duty on a charge of…
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Coral Jean McLachlan, 25-year-old bank officer, who leaped from the Brisbane Mail near Greta on Jan. 18 to escape a man who allegedly attempted to assault her, broke down after leaving the witness box at Maitland Quarter Sessions today…
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Opposing reduction of bail in a case at Maitland Sessions yesterday, in which three men have been charged with assault and robbery,…
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At the Maitland Quarter Sessions this afternoon, Rodney Francis Thorley was found guilty of assaulting a woman on a train on Jan. 18 with intent to…
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He was going to clean out the B.C.U. Club at Swansea of S.P. bettors and would gaol future offenders, Mr. M. J. Austin, S.M., said today at Belmont Court…
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COBURG (Ontario), March 23. A.A.P.—Ralph Kilbon, 56, former mining engineer, who admitted the "mercy killing" of his wife Irene,…
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BRISBANE.—Brisbane detectives began investigations as soon as they arrived at Alpha this morning to inquire into the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A tramwayman who, police allege, fired seven shots at a workmate was committed for trial at Paddington…
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SINGAPORE, Friday (A.A.P.-Reuter).—Two leaders of a nine-man gang, convicted of abetting the murder of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Crimes Act Invoked to Break Strike Penalties Cover Gaol Term, Deportation
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Federal Government to-night invoked the Crimes Act to break Queensland's waterfront strike. The Government took this action after the…
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The decision of the Labour Party to use its Senate majority in an attempt to force the Government to pay 10/ rather than…
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ROME, March 23. A.A.P.—Tension had eased and work began again in most parts of Italy to-day, after yesterday's strike, but…
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LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R.).—Two new techniques to subdue rioters in the Italian general strike have been evolved by the Italian police. In Milan yesterday, police with hoses squirted dyed water…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Expect Flood Of "Bad" Money At Royal Easter Show
SYDNEY.—Special preparations to defeat counterfeit money operators at the Royal Easter Show are being made by the C.I.B. Anticipating a new flood of spurious silver coins, a special…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
BAIL FORFEITED.—There was no appearance of Reginald Clegg Bryan, 50. labourer, to answer a charge of having on Wednesday. His £5 bail…
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BETTING FINES.—Bernard Ivor Mattick, 32, a shunter of Lang-street, Kurri Kurri, and Cyril Francis Maizey, 47, a miner, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Belmont Court (Before Mr. M. J. Austin, S.m.) on Two Charges
David Robertson, 28, of Jean-st., New Lambton, was remanded to Apr. 21 on a charge of having driven a car in Warners Bay-rd., Belmont, on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Parking Offence
For having parked in a prohibited area in Wolfe-st., on Dec. 12 and for having parked within 20 feet of the intersection of Scott and Wolfe-sts.,…
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