Ritual Murder; 7 To Die
LONDON, July. 16. A.A.P. —A native chief and six other Africans were sentenced to death, at Maseru (Basutoland)…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 62 of 117
Police Disperse Italian Migrants
SYDNEY, Thursday. — Police were called to disperse about 30 Italian migrants who were demonstrating outside the…
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SEOUL (Korea), Fri. (A.A.P.): An armada of (250 Allied planes was thrown into battle yesterday to cover a counter-attack which…
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Newcastle Trades Hall Council last night decided to give full support to the Amalgamated Engineering Union's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Martial Acquits Colonel
LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.)—Lieut.-Col. Alfred Gleave, commander of a British military hospital at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Slates Garage Man Who Broke Law
"You have held the law in absolute contempt," the Chief Industrial Magistrate (Mr. Isles) told a garage proprietor, Alwyn James Lees, when fining him £53 with £3 11s costs at Newcastle Court today…
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REMANDED.—Terence Leslie McNamee, 30, lorry driver, was remanded till August 26 on £20 ball, on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court at Maitland (Before Mr. A. S. McDonald, S.m.) Two Charges
Donald Arthur Poole (22), laborer, of Telarah, was fined £4 for indecent language and £1 for offensive behavior…
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A police vehicle fitted with a public address system yesterday patrolled streets in Newcastle to control vehicular and…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Action to speed up the hearing of civil cases before the courts was announced to-day by the…
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ON £10 BOND.—Eric Mervyn Newton, 42, labourer, was discharged on a £10 bond for 12 months on a charge of having…
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John Thomas Houghton (45), laborer, was remanded to July 27 by Mr. Hardwicke, S.M., in Newcastle…
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In sentencing a man at Newcastle Court today to six months' hard labor on two charges of stealing Mr…
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PERTH, Sunday. — Luba Maczurad, 31, a married woman, was fatally stabbed with a pair of scissors last…
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CHICAGO, Sun. (AAP) — Wimbledon champion Vic. Seixas yesterday beat Ham Richardson 6-2, 6-4,…
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SYDNEY: Detectives believe an explosion which wrecked the front of an unoccupied cottage in Champion-rd., Tennyson, near Gladesville. last night was a deliberate attempt to kill the occupants —a married couple and their three children…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Peanuts Theft 'To Aid Family'
A Sydney man told the Newcastle Court today that he would rather steal a jar of salted peanuts than see his wife and baby go hungry…
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Two men charged with a series of offences in the country were refused bail when remanded till Monday at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Man Fined £35 for Stealing From Cars
Ronald Thomas Henderson (45), laborer, was fined a total of £35 before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., in Newcastle Court today on two charges of having stolen from cars and a charge of having goods in custody…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Boat Rescues Shark Launch
Newcastle police launch An-sett rescued a disabled shark trawling launch which was being blown to sea about three…
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