Thwarted Escapees In Grafton Gaol
GRAFTON, Sunday.—Five convicts who tried to escape from Parramatta Gaol recently were transferred to Grafton…
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Courts & crime, 1953
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£45,000 Gem Theft In Locker
NEW YORK, Feb. 1. A.A.P.—A gem dealer's 100,000 dollars (about £45,000) worth of unset…
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LONDON, Feb. 1. A.A.P.—For the second day, Irish tempers, bottles and police batons flew in Ballinalee (population 141), in County Longford (Eire) because of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wide Police Search For Confidence Trickster £40,000 Involved In Scrip Swindle
SYDNEY: C.I.B. detectives are searching for a man who, they say, has disappeared from his Sydney home with at least £40,000 in cash—proceeds of one of the most amazing swindles ever perpetrated in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m.) Negligent Driving
Vincent Fallins of Main Rd., Kahibah, was fined £3 8s with 12s costs for negligent driving on Pacific Highway,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Detectives today charged a man with having uttered forged share scrip in a goldmining company, Placer Development Ltd…
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Frank William Boyce, 31 bus conductor, was sentenced at Newcastle Court yesterday to one month's imprisonment…
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SYDNEY: A taxi-driver charged with having forged share certificates on Placer…
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Arthur James Baguley, 30, labourer, was fined a total of £25 at Newcastle Court yesterday, on five charges of…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A cashier who stole £9358 from Greater Union Theatres was sentenced in the…
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A barber who said he had opened his shop early on a Saturday to improve his working conditions was fined £3 with 6/- costs at Newcastle Industrial Court today. He was Norman J. Scully of…
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TAMWORTH, Monday.— Two celebrated names were called in Tamworth Court today…
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Leslie Francis Dalley (40) and William Thomas Cheetham (66), laborers, were each fined £2 for causing malicious damage…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—On the eve of the Transport Workers' Union annual ballot for State and sub-branch positions, a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Orders Seizure Of Cafe Liquor
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Licensing Court to-day ordered the forfeiture of 120 bottles of liquor seized at Riverview…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Maitland Court Before Mr. F. P. Halpin, S.m
ASSAULT.—Peter John Balcombe, 19, rigger, of Bourkestreet, Maitland, was fined £10 for having assaulted Samuel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke S.m
REMANDED.—Alwyn Thomas Harris, 20. labourer, was remanded till March 11, on a charge of having driven a car…
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SYDNEY: Thieves who broke into a clothing factory at St. Marys stole men's clothing worth over…
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Police charged a New Australian at Newcastle Court to-day with having…
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Numerous complaints had been received by Newcastle Jockey Club about, a jockey charged with having obtained money by false pretence's, Detective D. P. Pratt alleged at Newcastle…
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