Dramatic Turn In Waverton Murder
SYDNEY: A dramatic development in the Waverton murder investigation today followed the arrest of a man by police in another State. The man, who, it is…
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Courts & crime, 1953
2,333 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 117
Shire Rejects Police Branch Reply
Lake Macquarie Shire Council last night denied a claim by the Police Traffic Branch, Redfern, that district police…
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A memorandum on the wage-price index will be submitted to the Arbitration Court in the present basic wage case…
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William Low, of Frederickton, was fined £35 with 12s costs for driving an overloaded vehicle…
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REMANDED. — Robert Price Hughes, 35, builder, was re-manded to Tamworth Court on a charge of having obtained…
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BERLIN, Jan. 23. A.A.P.— The "autobahn" murderer of women and girls has claimed his 17th victim, the police…
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Warner's Bay Progress Association will request a police patrol of the waterfront at Warner's Bay late on Saturday…
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NEW YORK, Jan. 25. A.A.P.—When Fred Faulkner, 83, was sentenced by a Magistrate at Toronto…
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MELBOURNE: Reports that the wealthy Melbourne-born British diplomat, Mr. Arthur Yencken, who died in a plane crash in Spain in 1944, was murdered, were "news" to him, his brother, Mr. E. D. Yencken, said today…
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NEW YORK, January 26. A.A.P.—Kansas City police to-day sought a possible link between the murder of a young…
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A 38-year-old laborer was remanded at Newcastle Court today on a charge of offensive behavior in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stop Press Parramatta Gaol Break
SYDNEY: Toni Martini, expert cracksman and gunman, escaped from Parramatta Gaol today but was recaptured within half an hour. He…
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A keen contest is developing for control of the Foremen Stevedores' Association in the annual elections, which…
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SYDNEY: A dispute regarding the election of officers of Newcastle Trades Hall Council has been referred to the Industrial Commission and will be heard by Mr. Justice de Baun…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke S.m.) Vagrant Gaoled
James Patrick Lennon (26) was sentenced to one month's gaol for vagrancy. On a second charge of having stolen, at…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—A 20-year-old trainee nurse alleged in Canberra Court to-day that a motorist, on the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A notorious gunman made a desperate but vain bid to escape from Parramatta Goal to-day…
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WESTPORT (Connecticut), Tuesday (AAP): The raped, strangled body of a blonde former actress was found today in her lonely home and police say they want…
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For having given a bribe to a constable, Cyril Eric Newell, 39, miner, was fined £5 at Newcastle Court today. An additional fine of £10…
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A man who ran away from Royal Newcastle Hospital was fined £5 at Newcastle Court yesterday for having used…
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