Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED. — William Fordyce, 63, seaman, was remanded till April 30 on £30 bail, on a charge of having sold…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 117
Christie Is Charged With Wife-Murder
LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.) John Reginald Christie (55), clerk, a former tenant of the Notting Hill "Death House," was charged last night with murdering his 54-year-old wife Ethel. Christie was questioned…
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Richard Charles St. John, 18, labourer, was fined £10 at Belmont Court yesterday for having stolen three bottles…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Mr. Justice Clyne to-day ordered that Reginald Aubrey Doyle be gaoled till otherwise ordered…
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MELBOURNE: The State Government was asked last night to remove a magistrate from the bench and a Church of England minister from office as principal of a boys' home following a court case at Colac last Wednesday…
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SYDNEY: Mrs. Marie Joan Doyle, wife of Reginald Aubrey Doyle, bankrupt (at present in gaol for contempt) was ordered in the High Court today to take all steps to have expedited…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.M., Traffic Breaches
Penalties were: Parking breaches: Harmen Tekstra, of Lidcombe, 3s, with 7s costs; Stanley R. Sharp, of…
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NEW YORK, April 1. —An eight-year-old girl burglar in Akron, Ohio, gave herself up to the police…
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Newcastle, Thur. (A.D.C.)—Eye witnesses and scientific proof showed that Harry Hoffman had…
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SYDNEY: A man charged with murder was unable to attend an inquest because of illness, the City Coroner (Mr. E. J. Forrest) was told today…
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A man was hit on the head with a bottle and a woman punched in the mouth during a fight at a Pokolbin birthday party, witnesses said yesterday…
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Because of the road safety talks Newcastle police have been giving in schools for some years, headmasters say the youngsters have not the fear of the police uniform that children used to have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Bigamy Charge
William George Kent (61), accountant, charged with bigamy, was remanded to April 23 on £50 bail. The police…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — A man charged with murder Was in hospital with neuro-dermatitis and could not appear in…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— A soldier who stole a £4000 yacht to elope to New Zealand, to-day was ordered to…
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COLOMBO, April 2. A.A.P. — A former servant boy testified in Court that he held the wife of a Ceylon Test…
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LONDON, April 2.—Police have found the skulls of two unknown women whose remains were dug up from the…
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PERTH, Sunday. — Joseph Patrick McIntosh, 23, and Alan Martin Slater, 19, half-castle farm labourers, were…
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SYDNEY: Ali Zani (34), welder, of City-rd., Sydney, was before Central Court today on a charge of…
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MIAMI (Florida), April 5. A.A.P.—Seven prisoners, including two convicted murderers, assaulted a gaoler and…
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