Gunman Thanks Judge For Five Years' Gaol
LONDON: James Healey laughed, clapped his hands, and shouted, "Thank you, my lord? at the Old Bailey when he was given five years. He turned to rush from…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 71 of 117
"Judge Wrong About Police"
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Judge Nield had made allegations against police as long ago as 1939 and had been proved wrong in each case, Mr. Delaney said…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday. (A.D.C.) — After attempts had been made to lynch a young man accused of…
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CHICAGO, Wed. (O.S.R.): Police last night were desperately trying to avert a savage race riot between whites and Negroes in a big housing project on the edge of the city. Almost 1000 police were…
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Police who have been searching since Monday afternoon in rugged country 28 miles from Gloucester for a missing timbergetter were told today that a man answering his description left Taree for Brisbane by train on Monday morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hard-wicke, S.m.)
REMANDED.âDouglas Ferrier, 40, labourer, was further remanded till October 2 on a charge of having been in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cases at Newcastle Court Today (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Vagrant Gaoled
James Patrick Lennon (26). laborer, who was sentenced to six months' gaol with light labor for vagrancy, was "absolutely…
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SRINAGAR (Kashmir), Fri. (A.A.P.)—Police at Tral, 26 miles east of Srinagar, yesterday opened fire…
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Judge Prior heard 13 undefended petitions yesterday at Newcastle Divorce Court. The issue was found answered in the affirmative in each case…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A police application to declare a restaurant a disorderly house "read more like Nazi Germany than Australia," Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED.—Leonard Arthur McP[?]erson, 33, labourer, was remanded till October 1 on £10 ball on a charge of having had…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Raid "Nightclub Belt" In New York Don Iddon's New York Diary
NEW YORK, Thurs.: Police raids were made this week on the "nightclub belt" after public demands for a clean-up. The cluster of dives, clipjoints, strip cabarets…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Divorce Court in Newcastle (Before Judge Prior) MCALLISTER v McALLISTER
Doreen florence McAllister (formerly Brown), of Dixon St., Wickham, told the court how her husband went out…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Remanded
Neville Robin (20), laborer, was remanded to Aug. 21 on £30 bail on a charge of having used a motor cycle without the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Industrial Court (Before Mr. H. Isles, Chief Industrial Magistrate
GOSFORD CASES.—Gordon T. Midson, of Mann-street, Gosford, was fined £15 for having failed to pay the award…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—C.I.B. detectives recaptured Leslie Archer Sinclair, 23, who escaped from Berrima training…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A Rumanian who claimed to have been hunted from his country by the Russians was sentenced…
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STEALING.—For having stolen £9/2/ belonging to Mervyn Robinson, James Patrick Lennon, 26, labourer, was…
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At Tenterfield today police recovered more than £1000 worth of goods…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Thieves took more than £1000 worth of jewellery, clothing and money from the home of Mrs…
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