Mother Went To Court With Son
LONDON: Sentence in a case at Merthyr Quarter Sessions was delayed recently while a mother was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1952
2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 115
Pay Theft Still Mystery
MELBOURNE, Friday.—No clue has been discovered on the £33,593 Army payroll theft from Mayne Nickless…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—A former Albury-Riverina Jockey, Joseph James Adams, 33, was found guilty by a General…
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Thomas Moses, 27, seaman, was fined £10, with £6/15/ costs by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., at Newcastle Court…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →14 Communist Leaders In U.S. For Gaol
LOS ANGELES, August 8. A.A.P.—California's 14 top-ranking Communists were sentenced to five years in prison…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boxer Withdraws Court Appeal
SYDNEY, Friday.—Ray Coleman, a Sydney boxer, to-day appeared at the Quarter Sessions to withdraw an…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Detectives have reached a dead-end in their inquiries into the theft of £33,593 from Mayne Nickless Ltd. on Thursday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N. Zealanders For Everest Assault
AUCKLAND, August 10. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Three New Zealanders—E. P. Hillary, W. G. Lowe and Harry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →1100 Charged On Fare-Evasion
SYDNEY, Sunday.—About 1100 Sydney tram and bus fare-evaders had been or would be prosecuted this year, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fly On Nose Traps "Dummy" Gaol Escapee
STOCKHOLM, Mon. (A.A.P.): A fly tickling his nose cost an escaped Swedish convict his liberty. It made him scratch his nose while he was posing…
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NEW YORK, Aug. 10. A.A.P.—Mrs. Mary Helen Shattles, 35, yesterday shot dead her husband, Dan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Urge To Own Cycle Leads To Murder
WELLNGTON, Aug. 10. A.A.P.-Reuter.—A young Maori who murdered a 90-year-old man for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Supt. Takes Wife To Hospital (Continued from Page One)
SYDNEY.—Metropolitan Police Superintendent W. C S. Thompson was granted permission to leave the Liquor Royal Commission today to take his wife to Prince Henry Hospital. The Commissioner (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Court (Before Mr. F. R. Wood. S.M False Pretences
David Wallace Bruce Reid. 33. miner, of Catherine St.. Maitland was remanded till Sept. 8 on £50 bail on two charges…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m.) Rode Under Influence
Raymond Wallace Gibbs, 27. clerk, was fined £10 for riding a motor cycle in a lane off Hunter St. on June 28 while…
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An 11-year-old boy was charged before Maitland Children's Court yesterday with the theft of 170 badges of the…
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SYDNEY.—More than £8000 worth of boot leather had been stolen systematically from a Botany…
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LONDON.—Mrs. Dorothy Alice Macbeth Reece of Snowdenham Cottage, Bramley, Surrey, wife of…
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SYDNEY: The hanging of a Yugoslav, Djuro Eror, 21, in Long Bay Gaol after he had been sentenced to death for murder was inquired into by the City Coroner (Mr E. J…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →£2500 Reward Offer On Payroll Theft
MELBOURNE, Monday.—A £2500 reward, for the recovery of the £33,593 Army payroll stolen on Thursday…
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