Police "Know" Who Hid Bodies
LONDON, July 12. A.A.P. —Police claim they know who placed the remains of five newly-born babies in a house…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 60 of 117
FEDFA Reregistration Granted By Court
SYDNEY: Accepting an assurance that the Federated Engine-drivers and Firemen's Association (coast district) had ceased taking part in illegal industrial action, the Full Bench of the Industrial Commission today granted the union reregistration…
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WILLOWS (Calif.), Sun. (A.A.P.): A man deliberately started a forest fire, in which 15 people perished, to make a job for himself, police say. The fire was in Mendo—…
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SYDNEY: A grey-haired man had stabbed his own son and a former Australian champion featherweight boxer at Lane Cove on Saturday with a cut-down butcher's knife, the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Indecent Behavior
Harry Massey (74), pensioner, was fined £2 for having behaved indecently in Wharfrd., Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m.) Traffic Breaches
Olsobeyed traffic light.—James Douglas Neilson of Curzon-st., New Lambton, and Cornelius De lance of Castle…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday (A.D.C.) — When a man was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, it…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two thugs battered a young woman unconscious and tried to strangle her with a scarf when…
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An assault on Constable K. W. Prince cost Thomas Hession (32) laborer, £8 and a four months' gaol…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.): The Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday set aside a fine of £500 imposed on a Birmingham businessman, Harold Ernest Markwick (52), for stealing a half-crown in a golf club locker-room…
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Two men were each fined £50 in Newcastle Court today for the theft of four cwt. of solder valued at £194 2s 8d from the bulk store of Electric Lamp Manufactures (Aust.) Pry. Ltd. They were Walter John…
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LAUNCESTON: Launceston police and detectives this morning resumed the search for a man who twice wounded a 28-year-old married man near his home between…
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A detachment of the N.S.W. Mounted Police will come to Newcastle during the Royal Visit period. While their primary job…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Relatives of Miss Isabel Davies, 75, of Blackheath, who has been missing in the Blue Mountains since Tuesday, believe she will found…
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Two men were each fined £50 at Newcastle Court yesterday for having stolen solder valued at £194/2/8, the…
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LONDON, July 14. A.A.P. —The Court of Criminal Appeal in London yesterday set aside the fine of £500…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Mr. Justice Myers in the Supreme Court to-day granted bail of £1000 to a man charged with…
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GOSFORD Tuesday.—Gosford solicitors will ask the Minister of Justice for an additional Court of Petty…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.— A man described as an "unwitting criminal" had allegedly lost £60,000 in car and other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Action Sought On Bus Stop Parking
The Police Department will be asked to take immediate and drastic action against motorists who park their cars in areas marked as bus stops. Aid. A. Terry claimed to…
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