Italian Charged With Wounding
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police charged an Italian with malicious wounding yesterday after a man and a woman had…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 65 of 117
Police Funeral
Mr. Michanel Bernard Sands, former police constable at Newcastle, died in the Mater Misericordiac Hospital…
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Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., in Newcastle Court today committed three men for trial to the Quarter Sessions on Aug. 4 on four charges involving the theft of £416 in money and £40 in goods. Allan Douglas Perkins…
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An admitted fondness for detective stories led a 23-year-old truck driver to assume the designation of a detective and investigate an imaginary murder, it was stated in Newcastle Court today. The escapade cost Paul…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Police reinforcements were sent to Merri Park football ground, Northcote, to-day to…
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The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress (Ald. and Mrs. Purdue) will draw the major prizes in the…
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NEW YORK, Sun. (A.A.P.): Police descended on the village of Short Creek, Arizona, just before dawn today in a move to wipe out a cult purportedly devoted to polygamy. Virtually all the men in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr H. A Hardwicke, S.m.] Indecent Behavior
Arne Brauer 33, laborer, was fined £2 for having behaved indecently on July 25 On the same charge John McCann, 41…
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SYDNEY: Three criminals with long records were sentenced in the Quarter Sessions today to heavy terms of imprisonment for a £5000 robbery from a city store where oxy-acetylene plant was used to bum open walls and safes…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.) —Alfred Merrifield (70), accused with his wife. Sarah, or murder, cracked…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—Doctors differed in Court to-day at the trial of Joan Balaban, 29, a Rumanian…
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SYDNEY: Confusing end to last night's stadium fight was given a new angle today with the announcement that police did not stop it…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—Several hundred waterside workers crowded the Australian Natives' Association Hall…
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MELBOURNE: The State Prices Commissioner (Mr. J. F. Waldron) must fix the new price for beer in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Wired Door To Give Wife Shock, Police Say
SYDNEY: A 62-years-old laborer had connected a live wire to the back door of his house "to give his wife a shock" Campsie Court was told today. He was Herbert William…
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REMANDED.—William Gill 69, labourer, was remanded till August 24, on £20 ball, on a charge of having driven a car…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Suspended Sentences
Two men were sentenced to six months' imprisonment on charges of stealing engineering equipment, the sentence to be…
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GRAFTON, Tuesday.—A prisoner who escaped from the precincts of Grafton Gaol to-day was recaptured within an…
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A New Australian who appeared before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., in Newcastle Court today was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Three men convicted of having taken part in a £5000 robbery in a Sydney store were sentenced…
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