£3300 Gold Theft From Mine
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— A gold bar worth £3500 was stolen from a safe in the office of the A1 Settlement Mine,…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 45 of 117
5 Years Gaol For Rape Bid
Robert Clive Brooks, 19, was sentenced yesterday to five years' gaol for attempted rape. Mr. Justice Brereton…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A woman to-day murdered her two small daughters and killed herself at Kirrawee, near Sutherland…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Arbitration Court had a constitutional duty to continue the wages-hours case, Mr. Phillips, Q.C., told the Full High…
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DRIVER FINED.—Robert Patrick Needham, 32, miner, was fined £10 for having driven a car in King-street, Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Driver Given Bond
Lesile Christian Smith (46) bricklayer was given a £20 bond after pleading guilty to having driven a utility truck in…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Car stealing was becoming the most profitable crime in New South Wales, Judge Renshaw…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Italian Gaol Is "Prison Without Bars"
MILAN: Italy, which has some of the world's most forbidding prisons, is experimenting today with a "prison without bars." Known to the public as…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —Ten shots were fired by police at four suspected thieves in Sunshine early this…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The State Full Court to-day set aside a Supreme Court jury's award of £11,500 to a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Divorce Court in Maitland Wilde v. WILDE
A petition by Joyce Chapman Wilde (formerly Jones), of Parkway-avenue, Hamilton, for divorce from Clifford Vivian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →F.e.d.f.a. Move to Court
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The State Executive of the F.E.D.F.A. instructed the secretary (Mr. D Ferguson) to-day to take preliminary steps for applying to have the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
REMANDED. — Neiczyslaw Samuleweiz, 30, labourer, was remanded till June 11 on £20 ball on a charge of having…
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"There is no doubt that the defendant is a complete and utter liar," Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., said yesterday…
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Jewellery, clothing and other goods valued at £60 were stolen from an unattended car owned by G. Spiller, of…
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LONDON, May 28. A.A.P.—Police had to link arms to stop a stampede when Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret went to the Abbey…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—T'wo men and a teenage girl were injured to-night when a car overturned as it was being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. Hardwicke, S.m.) Overloaded Lorries
Penalties imposed on four defendants for having driven over-loaded lorries were: Herbert Walter Skaines, of Elder St.,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Acting Justice Myers to-day made an order directing the Comptroller-General of…
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BAIL REFUSED.—Allan James Mitchell, 25, fireman, was further remanded till June 12, on a charge of having…
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