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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 53 of 117
LONDON, Tues. (OSR and AAP) : In an electric atmosphere at the Old Bailey defence counsel in the Christie murder trial gained an admission from a Scotland Yard inspector that at the time Timothy Evans was hanged for committing a murder at No. 10 Rillington Place,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NEW YORK, Monday. (A.A.P.)—A schoolboy who confessed to killing two small girls in a wood in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY: A 43-year-old Yugoslav charged with the murder by shooting of his neighbor, a 26-year-old Pole, was acquitted by a Central Criminal Court jury today after he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WASHINGTON, Mon, (A.A.P.): The Australian seaman, Terry Jackson Cooper (26), would be deported within 10 days, a Justice Department spokesman said today. Authorities expect to out…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle, Tuesday (A.D.C.).—One of the strangest trials ever to take place at the Old…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →SYDNEY, Monday.—The Australian Gas Light Company asked the C.I.B. late to-day to investigate the explosion that extensively damaged plant at its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY. — Following police investigations into housie housie games, a woman appeared at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judge Clegg yesterday answered in the affirmative a petition for divorce by Thomas Victor Roach, of National…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Joan Murray said to-day she had been offered a home to which to take her baby. She said the mother of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Aubrey Could, 38, labourer, was fined £5 on each of two charges of having used…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →John Henry Orr of Subiacoave. Cessnock. pleaded guilty to a charge of having failed to attend a National Service Camp…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →James Bede Britz (32) shunter, pleaded guilty to a charge of having stolen at Adamstown last night two bags of coal,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →LONDON, June 23. A.A.P. — John Reginald Halliday Christie, accused of the Notting Hill mass murders, confessed to killing three more women, to bring his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: The Superintendent of Morisset Mental Hospital told the Crown Employees' Appeals Board today that a nurse had admitted kicking a mental patient during an incident on March 5. The superintendent. Dr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle, Wednesday (A.D.C)—The case of the "Strange Love of Adelaide Bartlett" was one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — The period of imprisonment for maintenance arrears will soon be at the rate of one day for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A fury in Central Court to-day found a man not guilty of murder…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LONDON, June 23. A.A.P. —A 31-year-old Irishman, Joseph Christopher Reynolds, was committed at Leicester…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MADRAS, June 23. A.A.P. —The Police early to-day raided communist Party offices and arrested 22 people…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A woman said in Cessnock Court yesterday that a man who is charged with the attempted murder of her…
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