Suspects Beat-Police In Chase
SYDNEY.—Three suspected thieves escaped after outdistancing a police patrol car in a race through…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 117
Stabbing Followed Brawl, Police Say
SYDNEY.—A woman stabbed following a brawl at La Perouse on Saturday was in hospital in a…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Vice Squad detectives to-day raided a picnic which the Waterside Workers' Federation held at…
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A special court was held today at the Cessnock Hospital bedside of one of the victims…
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SYDNEY: After allegedly fatally shooting his sister-in-law, wounding his wife and then drinking weed killer himself, a 38-year-old farmer said he believed his wife was going to be unfaithful to him again that night, the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A group of Newcastle unions, headed by the Federated Iron-workers' Association, will ask…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. See. S.m.) Indecent Behavior
Edward Sinclair (34) and Robert Pasternak (30). laborers, were each fined £5 for indecent behavior on Friday…
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LISMORE, Monday.—Four men alleged to have broken into a butter factory at Nimbin had been hungry and…
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LAUNCESTON: Thomas Simmonds (41), farmer, of Kamona, was charged with having attempted to…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A man described by Sergeant Wiggins as "one of the most violent men in Sydney" was…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19. A.A.P.—About a thousand prisoners who rioted at the Western State Penitentiary…
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PITTSBURGH, Mon. (AAP): As the western penitentiary riot ended tonight another flared at Rockview prison, Bellefonte, 150 miles away…
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Mr. F. P. Halpin, S.M., dismissed a vagrancy charge at Maitland Court yesterday because of the "big-heartedness"…
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MELBOURNE: A man alleged to have been murdered had previously smashed a hut window with an axe and refused to leave, police stated In the City Court today…
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A special court was held in Cessnock Hospital yesterday at the bedside of a man alleged to have been shot. He is Thomas Date, 30,…
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TORONTO, Mon. (AAP): John Laughlin (62), son of a 104-year-old millionaire recluse, died today from the effects of gas which killed his father. The two were found in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Evaded Rail Fare
Jack Gallagner (54), Taborer, was fined £2 for having travelled by train from Gloucester to Broadmeadow today without…
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BRISBANE.—A woman charged with murdering three babies was remanded in the court today. A…
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BELLEFONTE (Pennsylvania) , Tues. (A.A.P.).—The Pennsylvania Attorney-General today…
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Clarence William Matthews. 55, of Pokolbin, and his two sons, Ronald and Lindsay Matthews, were remanded till…
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