Murder Confession Of Deaf Mute
NEW YORK. Monday (A.A.P.). — A deaf mute broke down under questioning in sign language and…
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Courts & crime, 1951
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3 Hanged At Pentridge For Murder
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Jean Lee, 31, Robert Clayton, 32, and Norman Andrews, 38, were hanged in Pentridge Gaol this morning for…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—In the High Court to-day, Mr. Justice Fullager ruled that he had no power to make an order nisi for a writ of habeas corpus to compel authorities to…
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HAD WRONG LICENCE.—When stopped by a police patrol cyclist at Maitland on Sunday, Ronald George Gillespie, 19, breadcarter, of…
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DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when William Hindmarsh Daniels, 28, bus driver, was charge with having failed to stop…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Court (Before Mr. M. J. McCauley, S.m.) Rode While Drunk
Gordon Phoenix, 20, pleaded guilty to having at Cessnoclc on Feb. 17 ridden a motor cycle in Vincent St. while under the influence of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Did Not Pay Fare
For failing to pay his fare for a train ride between Sydney and Broadmeadow on Feb. 18, Henry James Davis, 57, laborer, was fined…
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SYDNEY: Skilful gangs of sheep stealers along the border districts of the Riverina are operating on such a huge scale that graziers arc planning bands of "night raiders."…
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday (A.A.P.). —The United States Court of Appeals today refused to halt the scheduled execution…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man protested from the body of the Court at the Greyhound Royal Commission to-day against the…
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DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when Ronald Galway Horn, 41, labourer, was charged with having driven a car negligently…
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A typewriter was stolen yesterday from the office of the Commonwealth Medical Officer (Dr. G. A. Blumer) in the short period…
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Robert James Appleby, 30, baker, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment by Mr. H. T. D. See, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday…
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DISCHARGED.—Reginald Jeffrey Perry, 22, hotel manager, was charged with having driven a car negligently in Hunter-street, Hamilton, on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. H. Treloar, J.p.) Remanded
William Charles Rigby. 24, and Barry Conrad Williams, 19. laborers, were each remanded until tomorrow on charges of vagrancy…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Wilfred Whitelaw McGregor, 34, carpet-layer, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having…
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Police who investigated a smash and grab raid in Hamilton yesterday morning, followed a trail of blood for nearly a mile…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—A special bill to ensure power for the Arbitration Court to enforce awards and decisions of industrial…
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DARWIN, Thursday.—A Yugoslav migrant slashed a man five times with a razor, police alleged in Darwin Court to-day…
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PENRITH, Thursday.—Hysteria had caused a six-year-old girl to lose the power of her legs after a stomach rupture, a doctor said…
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