Girls Charged With Robbery
SYDNEY: Two slightly-built girls appeared in the dock at Central Court today on charges of armed robbery. They were charged…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 117
Heffron Defends Police
SYDNEY.—The Deputy Premier (Mr. Heffron) told the 31st annual Police Association conference today…
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ADELAIDE: John Balaban (29), industrial chemist, was charged in the Police Court today on two counts of murder. Arrested early yesterday…
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SYDNEY.—C.I.B. detectives are satisfied that a 23-year-old Chinese met his death by diving under…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. — A suspected attempt to dope the colt Gallant Archer is being investigated by police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle Indecent Language
Lawrence Lionel Harvey (30), laborer, was fined £5 for having used indecent language in Hunter St…
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SYDNEY: About £66,000,000 already distributed among Australian woolgrowers by the Australian Wool Realisation Commission from the profits on the overseas sales of Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m.) Fined Over Rope
Noel Waters (33), window cleaner, was fined £3, in default six days, for having had in his custody a railway rope…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The State Full Court to-day adjourned an application challenging a magistrate's right to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court Told Of Doyle's Gaol Sentences: 36 Years In All
SYDNEY: Between December, 1931, and June, 1940, sentences aggregating 36 years had been passed on Reginald Aubrey Doyle (41), bankrupt punter and investor. Evidence of these previous convictions was given in Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Press Doyle Sentenced
SYDNEY: Reginald Aubrey Doyle was this afternoon sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment by Judge Stacy in Quarter Sessions. (See…
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Two young men who stole a car in Brisbane and disposed of it in Newcastle on their way to a religious ceremony at Cooranbong were remanded for…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—John Balaban, 29, former Czechoslovak industrial chemist, was remanded in Adelaide…
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NAIROBI, April 13. A.A.P.—Twenty-six Kikuyu men will be tried to-day on charges involving murder on the "night…
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A railway fireman said at Newcastle Quarter Sessions today that on the night of Oct. 2 last year the front of his engine was jammed by two sleepers which had been placed across the line near Gosford…
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A complaint of motor cyclists racing in the vicinity of East Lambton Park had received police…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Policemen having "only the ability to pimp and crawl" could no longer rise to high rank as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Guns Around Court At Kikuyu Trial
NAIROBI (Kenya), Tues. (A.A.P.) : Extraordinary precautions were taken yesterday when 26 Kikuyus faced trial for the Mau Mau massacre of 74 natives at Lari 18 days ago…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Couple Fail In Court Bid For Baby
SYDNEY: The State Full Court today rejected an application by a Gosford couple to stay an order directing them to return their 5-months-old foster son to his natural mother. Remarking that the…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Arbitration Court will conduct the election of officers of the Victorian branch…
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