Hammer Clue in Murder
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Detectives are searching for the murderer of a 73-year-old barman at the Royal Melbourne Golf Club, Cheltenham, last night…
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Courts & crime, 1953
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Court To Consider Margions For Skill
MELBOURNE: Claims for margins for skill above the basic wage will now come before the Full Arbitration Court. The Chief Judge (Sir Raymond Kelly) today…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Two men were charged in the City Court to-day with the murder of Ernest Clarkson, 69, of Gordon-avenue, Tecoma…
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An 18-year-old youth, Lloyd Ronald Martin, at present serving a 12 months' gaol term for breaking, entering and stealing, was given a further year's gaol by Judge Prior in the Newcastle Quarter Sessions today for breach of a bond. The sentence will date from…
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SYDNEY: Sgt. Stanley Dugald Cameron to-day filed an appeal against his dismissal from the N.S.W. Police Force. Cameron was dismissed…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Former police sergeant S. D. Cameron is considering appealing to a higher court against Judge…
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SYDNEY: Detectives believe that a woman who died suddenly in her Granville home last night may…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—The relativity of margins to the basic wage should be decided by the Full Arbitration Court, Sir Raymond Kelly said to-day…
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A man, described as a prohibited immigrant, had taken a utility truck, stalled it in the middle of the road, and then attempted to take a car, it was stated in the Newcastle Court today. He was Klas Valdemar…
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LONDON: A husband who suspected that his wife had taken his jewellery, had done a reprehensible thing in calling the police, said Mr. Commssioner Bush-james, giving…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Former Sergeant S. D. Cameron lodged an appeal with the Crown Employees' Appeals Board to-day against his dismissal from the police force…
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SYDNEY: Parliament House special constables had been under pressure from Ministers and members to allow their friends to park their cars in the members' parking area, Mr. L. K. Murphy said at the Doyle Royal Commission today…
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REMANDED. — Cyril Robert Johnston, 34, boilermaker, was remanded till October 5 on a charge of having broken into…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wallsend Court (Before Mr. A. S. McDonald, S.m.) Remanded
A remand to Aug. 19 was granted Leslie Webster Dryden (23), laborer, who was charged with stealing £92 15s 7d at…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Police And Warders Seek Berrima Gaol Escapees
SYDNEY: In bitter cold and sleet, police and gaol warders searched unsuccessfully last night for two young, prisoners who escaped yesterday from Berrima Training Centre. They are: BARRY…
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Maitland police are investigating the theft of an electric motor from premises of the Maitland Furniture Factory in…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police Sergeant William Henry Masters was charged by summons in Balmain Court to-day…
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MOSS VALE, Wednesday.—Police are making a wide search for two prisoners who escaped from Berrima Gaol to-day. The prisoners escaped from…
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Leonard Cunningham, 23, laborer, was sentenced by Judge Prior in Newcastle Quarter Sessions today to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An elderly man had admitted having stabbed a former champion boxer with a knife,…
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