Woman Charged With Shooting
SYDNEY, Monday.—Mrs. Janet Reinardt Ley, 42, of Juvenis-street, Caravan Head, Como, was charged in Kogarah Court to-day with…
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Courts & crime, 1950
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Dramatic Story By Murder Accused
In a dramatic statement from the dock at Newcastle Supreme Court today, James Muir, 43, laborer, accused a Crown witness, Cecil Diver, of inflicting the injuries which caused the death of John Johnson Kerr, at New Lambton on Dec. 10, 1949…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.): George Kelly (27) who is to be hanged today for the murder of a Liverpool cinema manager, became engaged in Walton Gaol, Liverpool yesterday, to Colleen Dutton (19). Kelly, who was feared as a…
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Charged before Mr. Justice Herron at a special sitting of the Supreme Court in Newcastle yesterday with having feloniously and…
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CALCUTTA, March 27. A.A.P.—Indian police have arrested seven men over the murder on Sunday of an Englishman, Alexander Leslie…
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LITHGOW, Monday.—Police had to wade through water thigh deep to reach a cache of stolen railway property hidden beneath a…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two police constable were injured, one critically, when their motor-cycle crashed on the way to investigate a runaway…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Judge Berne to-day ordered court attendants to remove from the Court any person seen "smiling or smirking"…
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Cr. Gain told Teralba. Advisory Committee that he opposed the proposed transfer of Teralba Court to Boolaroo. The Court at Teralba…
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SYDNEY: A Bankstown woman made a human torch of her husband by saturating his clothing with methylated spirits and igniting it, the Divorce Court was told today…
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SYDNEY: The estimated £10,000 will of a man aged 73, who died four weeks after announcing that he was going to marry his "little nurse," aged 39, was disputed in the Probate Court today…
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PENSIONER CHARGED.—George Richard Jackson, 69, pensioner, was charged with having broken and entered the office of the Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. M. J. D. Austin, S.m.) Did Not Appear
Charged with having used indecent language in Scott-st., Newcastle, last night, Kevin Edmond Landrigan 18, seaman, failed to appear and his…
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Donald Victor Greenway (18) laborer, appeared before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., in Newcastle Court today charged with…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A man at the Criminal Court to-day was sentenced to death for murder…
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Forty minutes after retiring, the jury at the Supreme Court at Newcastle yesterday returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in which James Muir, 42, labourer, was charged with having…
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In Newcastle Supreme Court today Alfred Andrew Boa, public accountant, of Newcastle, received payment of £50 under a…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Probate Court to-day refused to set aside the will of Christopher George Brandis, 73, which was contested…
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BRISBANE: Two thousand Brisbane watersiders today endorsed the union executive's recommendation to take the claim of rotation of hatches to…
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FOR TRIAL. â George Richard Jackson, 69, pensioner, was committed for trial at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions, which commence…
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