10 Years' Gaol
GREENWOOD (South Carolina), May 5. A.A.P.— Sam Bonner, 77, was sentenced to 10 years'…
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Courts & crime, 1953
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Police Probe Bribery Allegations
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two C.I.B. company squad detectives are investigating allegations that former aldermen of…
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A remand to May 20 was granted John Alfred Whittier (47), foreman, who pleaded not guilty to charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See. S.m.) Traffic Breaches
Speeding.âTwenty-two motorists were fined a total of £64 6s on charges of speeding. They were Harry T…
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Superintendent J. Swasbrick, of Newcastle Police, said today that the provisions of the Liquor Act…
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THEFT FROM CAR.—Harold Edward Gluyas, 23, labourer, was sentenced to nine months gaol concurrent with a sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See. S.m.) Negligent Driving
William Makin of Teralba- rd., Broadmeadow. pleaded guilty to a charge of negligent driving in Scott-st.,…
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Dismissing a theft charge yesterday, Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., said he was satisfied there had been a…
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BRISBANE: Police searching for a missing man at Bundaberg believe he may have been battered to death with a breadboard. The man Oswald Arthur…
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A fire in a house in Elizabeth St., Tighe's Hill, last night is believed by Newcastle detectives to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder Trial Echo Child Ordered To Be Handed Over
SYDNEY: The Equity Court today ordered Richard Basil Scudds to hand over to his wife, Florence Doris Scudds, their child, whom he formerly was accused of having murdered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Drove Under Influence
Herbert Fisher (52), steel dresser, was fined £10 on a charge of driving under the influence of liquor in Hunter-st…
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An Hungarian youth who escaped from gaol at Bernau, Western Germany, and fled home to Hungary last…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Russell Thomas Wall, of Johnson-street, Chatswood, who had served 45 years with the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Man Detained In Payroll Theft
PERTH, Friday.—A man believed to have been implicated in yesterday's £3800 payroll robbery from a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police Cruelty Alleged
LONDON, May 8. A.A.P.—An official inquiry into allegations of police atrocities against Kikuyu tribesmen in Kenya has been demanded…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Police exhumed the body of a man at a "shanty town" at Cook Park, Mascot, to-night…
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Court officials have been told that Mr. Justice Brereton will preside at the circuit sittings of the Supreme Court…
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TOKYO, May 8. A.A.P.— The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company has asked a Japanese Court for an injunction to…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A woman awarded £16,213 for the loss of a leg in an accident had the ward confirmed…
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