Hit - Run Driver Sent To Gaol
SYDNEY: The sobbing of a hit-run motorist, sentenced in the Quarter Sessions today to three years' gaol for culpable driving, could be heard coming from the…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 117
Gaol For Forger Of Tote Tickets
MELBOURNE: A New Australian who forged totalisator tickets with a face value of £201 last December was sent to gaol for three months at the General Sessions today…
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SYDNEY.—A 39-year-old laborer, Arthur Patrick ("Jim") Smith, of Leeton, was committed for trial at…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—John Joseph James, 25, of Collins-street, Corrimal, was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions to-day…
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A man who had been sought by the police for a theft at Newcastle five months ago was found at a sideshow…
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Police last night provided emergency accommodation at Maitland Benevolent Home for a family of seven evicted from…
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VAGRANCY.—Clande Glass, 41, labourer, was sentenced to four months' Imprisonment and Colin Douglas Harris, 42, and…
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SALONIKA, March 1. A.A.P.—A Greek military court yesterday sentenced to death three Greek men and a…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—A trusted prisoner escaped from Yatala Labour Prison this afternoon…
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Robert Desmond McElwaine (27), a draper, of Greta, appeared at Maitland Court today on two counts of receiving and having in his custody four rolls of dress material, the properly…
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SYDNEY: A 26-year-old Sydney doctor who was found at The Gap after taking a large dose of sleeping tablets was charged in the Lunacy Court today with attempted suicide. Mr. F. G. H. Thompson…
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ADELAIDE, Sunday.—A Hungarian who was found shot on the Adelaide-road, about 30 miles from Millicent…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Arthur Ernest Halliday, 42, was sentenced to-day to life imprisonment with hard labour on a charge of having murdered Athol McCowan,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A labourer who pleaded "Guilty" at the Quarter Sessions to-day to having assaulted his wife's…
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SYDNEY.—After a raid on a city hostel early to-day, detectives arrested a man who allegedly…
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LITHGOW, Monday.—Detectives are investigating the theft of £50 from the office of the Western Miners'…
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BRISBANE. — Arthur Ernest Halliday (42), plumber, was sentenced to life imprisonment late…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—A petition for divorce, lodged by Australia's Minister-designate to Indonesia, John Charles…
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TEHERAN, March 2. A.A.P.—Soldiers and police, using tear gas, to-day held back more than 10,000 supporters of Dr. Mossadeq demonstrating in front of Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Doyle's Story in Court Surrender "At Set Time"
SYDNEY, Monday.—Reginald Aubrey Doyle said in the Bankruptcy Court to-day that his solicitor and the Chief of the C.I.B. had set the time for him to surrender to the police…
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