Court At Newcastle. (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Undersized Prawns
Allan Welsh, of Maitchell St., Stockton, was fined £2 with 12s costs for having had in his possession undersized cooked…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 125
Bendigo Gaol Escapee Taken
SYDNEY: Robert Henry Cox, 19-year-old escapee from Bendigo Gaol, was recaptured at Darlinghurst early today. Drunk and half-asleep…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A 41-year-old storeman was sentenced in the Criminal Court to 13 years' gaol to-day…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Two men charged with the murder of John Willoughby, 27, a T.B. pensioner, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ealing Murder Case to Close
LONDON, Feb. 23. A.A.P.—Scotland Yard is ready to close its case of the double murder in Ealing, London. Detectives will chalk up…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clue Found in Train Murder
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A vital clue has been found in the Olaf Perkman murder mystery. As a result C.I.B…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Butcher Of Paris" On Murder Trial
PARIS, Feb. 23. A.A.P.—Karl Oberg, 58, a former Hamburg cigar salesman who became head of the Gestapo in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Official Of Court For Trial
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Vance Dominic Summerhays, Deputy Registrar of Bankruptcy, in Central Court to-day was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cessnock Court (Before Mr. F. Wood, S.m.)
Traffic Breach.—Walter Lavender, of Neath-road, Cessnock, was fined £5, with 12/ costs, for having failed to give…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.)
PORTER CHARGED: James Giles Guthrie, 18, Junior porter, was charged with having stolen a wrist watch, valued at £10,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Illegal Betting
Eric Edwin Simpson, 52, laborer, was fined £40 for haying been in the public bar of the General Roberts Hotel, New…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Costly Assault
LONDON (O.S.R.).—A Soccer full-back who was alleged to have brought down an opponent by a…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →"Mean Man" Sent To Gaol
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Henry George Holloway, 40, cook, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to four years' goal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Gaol Escapee Taken In Park; Drunk
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A 19-year-old escapee from Bendigo Gaol was recaptured drunk and half-asleep on a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Doctor's Car Over Cliff, Police Think
SYDNEY: C.I.B. detectives investigating the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful 25-year-old Lithuanian brunette from her Bondi flat on Monday night fear that she plunged to her death over a Bondi cliff in a car with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED.—Ronald Arthur Pomfrett, 33, butcher, was remanded till March 25, on £20 bail, on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Freed Of Trunk Murder
LONDON, Fri., (A.A.P.): A man who tied a stocking around the neck of his dead wife and then put the body in a trunk was found not guilty of murder last night. The body was not found…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Nine Months' Gaol; Threw Glass Of Beer
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Judge Holt, at Sydney Quarter Sessions to-day, sentenced a former boxer to nine months'…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dealer on Charge of Murder
BRISBANE, Thursday.—A dealer charged with the murderer of his wife said in Brisbane Criminal Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Police Chief Dies
MOSCOW, Fri. (A.A.P.).—The Red Army newspaper "Red Star" yesterday announced the death of…
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