Third Trial On Murder Charge
SYDNEY: Today for the third time within three months a man faced a Central Criminal Court jury to answer to a charge of murder…
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Courts & crime, 1953
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Police Limit On Title Fight Sales
LONDON, Mon. (O.S.R. and A.A.P.).—Police have limited the number of seats to be sold for the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Drove Under Influence
Sydney Wilson Nicholes (23), laborer, pleaded guilty to having driven a motor car in Maitland Rd., Hexham, on Saturday…
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Two men who admitted the theft of diesel engine parts and other machinery from a burnt-out timber mill in the bush near Bulahdelah on March 9 were…
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The hearing of a charge against a young Cessnock mineworker of shooting with intent to murder was…
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Two undefended petitions were heard by Judge Clegg at Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday…
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A 15-year-old girl said in Newcastle Quarter Sessions today that a young man with whom she had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke S.m
REMANDED. — Eric Abitt Ford, 27, builder, was remanded till June 27, on £20 bail, on a charge of having driven a car in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Court (Before Mr A. S. McDonald, S.m.) Traffic Fines
Aubrey Lomas was fined £4 with 12s costs on each charge of having driven an uninsured lorry and an unregistered lorry…
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Allan Caban, Neville Pointer and James Plunkett were convicted in Cessnock Court yesterday for having assaulted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Girl Denies Stealing Liquor From Club
A police constable denied in Newcastle Quarter Sessions today that he and other police had interrogated a girl for more than two hours while she was protesting her innocence. The girl, Heather Joyce…
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Two undefended petitions were heard by Judge Clegg in Newcastle, Divorce Court yesterday. In each case the issue was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A 2S-year-old labourer was committed to-day for trial on a charge of having murdered…
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WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.—Forcible eviction of two families from Balgownie migrant hostel at Wollongong to-day led to a near riot…
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Newcastle City Council decided last night to ask the Police Department to station an officer permanently at the…
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BELLINGEN, Tuesday.— Carl Gerard Perry, 43, farmer, of Repton, was committed to-day for trial on a charge of…
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SYDNEY: Whenever there was easy money, there was always a danger for police, Acting Metropolitan Superintendent George Lang Smith told the Crown Employees'…
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BOND FOR DIREVER.—Kevin John Lane, 22, salesman, who pleaded "Guilty" to having driven a car while under the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See. S.m.) Dumped Rubbish
Nine people were each fined £5 in consequence of Newcastle Council's campaign against illegal dumping of…
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Heather Joyce Roberts, 22, shop assisant, pleaded "Not guilty" at Newcastle Sessions yesterday to having broken into the storeroom of the Wyong Bowling Club…
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