24-Year Gaol Term Sought
ROME, April 20. A.A.P.—A demand that Marshal Graziani, former Commander-in-Chief of the Italian Armed Forces, be sentenced…
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Courts & crime, 1950
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Youth For Trial On Cattle Theft Charges
SINGLETON, Thursday.—In the Court of Petty Sessions, John Whitfield Dunstan, 19, of Greenwood, Singleton, was committed…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A gaol sentence of two years on a young coloured man was reduced to six months by Judge Renshaw in the…
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Three men were each sentenced to 14 years imprisonment by Judge O'Sullivan at Newcastle Sessions yesterday for having, in company,…
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LONDON, April 20. A.A.P.—Scotland Yard detectives to-day shadowed a tattered-eared mongrel bitch through the rubble of bombed…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A denial that he strangled Elizabeth Maureen Williams, 20, typist, formerly of Tasmania, was made by…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Premier (Mr. McGirr) said to-night that on the recommendation of the Minister for Transport (Mr…
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SYDNEY: Mr. Justice Fullagar will give judgment on Monday on an application for extension…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—An application by Paul Grierson, 51, for special leave to appeal against a life sentence was unanimously…
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FOR TRIAL.—James Alexander Feeney, 18, labourer, and Charles Reginald Ridgeway, 20, labourer, were committed for trial at the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Indecent Behavior
On a charge of having behaved indecently in a lane off Hannell-st., Wickham, on April 20. Robert White, 73. laborer, was fined 10s…
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At Newcastle Court yesterday, James Riddle, 24, and Kenneth Gray, seamen in the British Integrity, were each fined £10 by Mr…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A clerk was sentenced in the Quarter Sessions to-day to 2½ years imprisonment for having stolen more than £1000…
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A charge of drunken driving against Frederick Botham, miner, was dismissed by Mr. Hardwicke, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday…
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DUBBO, Friday.—Sobbing bitterly Mrs. Ethel Maude Wood, 42. denied in the Supreme Court to-day that she had given her husband poison. From the dock, she said: "I'm…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A labourer was remanded in Liverpool Court to-day till April 28 on a charge of having murdered a…
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WOMAN FINED.—For having stolen a bedspread valued at £2/17/ from Winns, on Thursday. Mary Richardson, 51, domestic duties, was…
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PERTH, Sunday.—As a result of a stab wound in the stomach, received in the main street at Collie last night, Mrs. Gwenneth Sarah…
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MELBOURNE: Keith Rhimes a well-known cross-country jockey, and Thomas F. Noonan a strapper, were charged…
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SALZBURG, April 23. A.A.P.—Gisela Sell, beautiful 23-year-old Berlin masseuse known as the "blond Venus," burst into tears…
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