Youth Charged With Assault
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police to-night charged a youth, aged 18, with an attack on an 18-year-old girl in…
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Courts & crime, 1953
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Police Widen Search In Murder Hunt
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police to-day widened their search to other States for a man, believed to be a…
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NEW YORK, December 31. A.A.P.—Police reported to-day that Charles Weigold, 27, son of a wealthy Wall-street…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Superintendent John William Swasbrick and Inspector John Vernon Hayes, of Newcastle,…
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The Superintendent of Police (Mr. Swasbrick) yesterday appealed again to road users to observe regulations and try to prevent accidents…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (O.S.R.). — New Year's Eve motorists who have too much to drink have…
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FRAUD CHARGE—On a charge of having obtained a car valued at £555 by false pretences, Leslie James…
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A New Australian aired his knowledge of Australian colloquialisms at Newcastle Court today when he was asked if he wished to proceed against a man charged with assault. "Scrub it," he said, but…
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A young: laborer, given a chance earlier this week to rehabilitate himself, was sentenced to three months'…
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The presence of a man's three young children at Newcastle Court today deterred the magistrate from sending him to gaol for assaulting his wife…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Detectives investigating the murder of Shirley Butler, at Waverton on Christmas Day,…
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LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.). —The Queen is observing family mourning for a week from Dec. 29 for…
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SYDNEY: C.I.B. Homicide Squad detectives have questioned 17 men…
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LONDON, Fri. (O.S.R.): Police have been trying to determine how London's "impossible" accident happened on the Tower Bridge on Tuesday night. A double - decker bus…
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NEW YORK.—Anthony and Andrew Paolillo, two brothers sentenced here to a year's imprisonment…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Detectives to-day charged a 30-year-old mechanic, of Camp Pell, with the murder…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A tram passenger to-day gave police a new lead in the Christmas Day murder of Shirley Butler,…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Three men charged in Brisbane Police Court to-day with having assaulted and robbed…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—An 18-year-old youth who assaulted a young girl in Waverley cemetery on New Year's Eve was…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—A woman was charged in Brisbane Police Court to-day with having murdered her…
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