10 Egyptians Get Gaol Sentences
CAIRO, Jan. 5. A.A.P.— A Military Court to-day sentenced two Egyptians to five years' imprisonment with hard…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 125
Pakistan Gaol Releases Pathan Head
PESHARVAR, Jan. 5. A.A.P. —Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, known as the "Frontier Gandhi," was released to-day…
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WASHINGTON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—Secret service agents today arrested a well-dressed negro and…
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At Cessnock Court yesterday a man was ordered to serve a six-month sentence imposed on him in April, 1952…
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LONDON, Wed., (A.A.P.): Brian James Harrison (16), a husky 6ft. 2in. apprentice, was gaoled for six years at Stoke-On-Trent yesterday after a nine-month crime spree…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—"The Chief of the C.I.B. (Superintendent Ramus) said to-night that he had assigned two…
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TEHERAN, Wed. (A.A.P.). — Police yesterday seized several boys and shaved their heads clean following riots in Teheran. The boys and bare-breasted girls were protesting…
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PEEPING TOM.âEric John Chapman, 37, storekeeper, was fined £5 for having behaved offensively in Parkway-avenue…
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Ronald Simpson (331, laborer, was fined £20 for betting at West Wallsend on Jan. 1. Percy William Lonsdale, Fern Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. T. H. D. Sec. S.m.) Goods in Custody
Alfred Woods (40), laborer, was fined £10 for having had in his custody at Gateshead a tarpaulin which might…
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HOBART, Wednesday.— Cecil William Bowes, 40, bookmaker, has been charged with the theft of £15,566/16/3, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) One Month's Gaol
Arthur Eric Collins (38), seaman, was sentenced to one months' hard labor for having stolen fifteen fencing palings…
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TEMORA, Wednesday.—A 23-year-old labourer was charged in Temora Court to-day with having shot at two women with intent to murder them…
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PANMUNJON, Jan. 6. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Eight anti-Communist North Korean prisoners of war appeared…
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LONDON, Jan. 6. A.A.P. —Official reports received in London said that East Germany's barracked police force…
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BRISBANE: A man had admitted killing a woman, whom he met through an advertisement in the personal column of a newspaper, because she had "destroyed his life," police told Brisbane Court today…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— C.I.B. detectives believe that a youth who stole a quantity of mail from Turramurra…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (A.A.P.). — Captain Harvey Collins (28), of the U.S. Army, today wrote a suicide note, stole a small military plane and crashed it on a railway line in the path of an approaching train…
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A man charged in Newcastle Court today with breaking into a shop and stealing 1lb. margarine and a tin of condensed milk told the arresting constable that he wanted to go to gaol because he had "had" his wife…
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FOR TRIAL.— Leslie Ronald Bell, 34, chiropodist, was committed for trial at Newcastle Quarter Sessions on seven…
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