Cattle Stealing Alleged
While investigating cattle thefts in the Macleay River district this week, Detective-Sergeant P. O'Neill…
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Courts & crime, 1952
2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 38 of 115
Judge Increases Gaol Sentence
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the Appeals Court to-day, Judge Holden increased the sentence of a man who appealed against…
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COFF'S HARBOR. — Lewis Henry Johnstone (30) of Breakwater Rd.. Coff's Harbor, was…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—An alibi for William John O'Meally, 28, labourer, was given by his wife in the Criminal Court to-day. O'Meally is charged with…
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LONDON: Two 600-year-old scrolls in Hebrew, recording the story of the Boot of Esther, and taken…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A man being chased in a car by police from a smash and grab raid early to-day had crashed…
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Allan Owens (23). grocer, was lined £10 for driving a car in Hunter St., Newcastle, on April 14. while under the influence…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.—Prisoners at Yatala labour prison to-night staged a disturbance within the walls of…
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ADELAIDE: Wooden batons wielded by police and warders were smashed and leather truncheons split down the centre during a gaol riot at Yatala Prison last night…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The trial of William John O'Meally, 28, on a charge of having murdered a policeman, is expected to end on Friday…
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The Newcastle Coroner (Mr. T. H. D. See) today committed 44-year-old Russian laborer, Iwan Bilyj, for trial on a charge of having murdered another new Australian on April 22. Mr. See had inquired…
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SYDNEY: City publican Julius Myerson told the Liquor Royal Commission today that he had never felt indebted or under any obligation to former Metropolitan Licensing Inspector Francis Thomas Nunan…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Police reinforcements and fire hoses shooting water from the gaol towers helped to quell…
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The theft of £181 in notes from a shed in Regent-st., New Lambton, is being…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).—A 25-year-old soldier of the Manchester Regiment, who said the Russians had…
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MONTREAL, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Using a blowtorch to open a vault, thieves today stole four…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—In an unsworn statement from the dock, William John O'Meally said to-day: "On the night concerned I was not at Caulfield…
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SYDNEY: Three Newcastle youths, who appeared in the Central Court today on armed hold-up charges, had engaged in a joint enterprise of armed robbery of theatres, police…
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Horace Hyde (42) of Murray Square, Mayfield, was admitted to Royal Newcastle Hospital this…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.): An old public schoolboy married a chorus girl and later pretended to adopt their son because of his father's "rigid Victorian principles." This was stated in the…
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