Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A Hardwicke, S.m.) Traffic Offences
Penalties were:— Negligent Driving: Clifford John Hannah, of Lovell St., Cardiff, £1 18s; Barry James…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 20 of 125
Gaol For Sexual Offences
LONDON (O.S.R.): Prison sentences must be retained for sexual offences between men, because of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →£3500 Theft At Luxury Sydney Flat
SYDNEY: Thieves who entered a Double Bay home stole a £2000 mink coat, a £1000 diamond ring, £250 in cash and other articles…
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An 18-year-old youth who stole a purse containing £14 from a woman in the Strand Theatre last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Murder Count Remand
SYDNEY, Monday.—In Central Court to-day a labourer was remanded without ball till March 29 on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soldier Guilty Of Murder
CORNWALL (Ontario), March 1. A.A.P.—Second Lieut. Peter Balcombe, of the 4th Canadian Guards, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Husband Faces Double Murder Charge
LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.)—George Alexander Robertson (40) was charged in Edinburgh Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Guard Players
GEORGETOWN, Mar. 1. A.A.P.—Extra precautions are being taken to prevent a recurrence to-day of the demonstration by supporters of the West Indies team in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Doubt On Poison In Body
SYDNEY, Monday.—Police believe that a minute quantity of metallic poison found in the body of an Armidale grazier…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Arbitration Court announced that unions' marginal claims would come before the Court early in May…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Escapees Went Joy Riding, Court Told
SYDNEY: An inmate of Emu Plains Prison Farm said he had escaped four times — to visit his wife, drink at a hotel and drive around Sydney in a stolen car — a detective alleged in Penrith Court The detective said the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wife Set On Fire, Court Told
SYDNEY, Monday.—Frederick George Green, labourer, of Neutral Bay, had sprayed his wife with methylated spirits…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"In The Good Old Days" Court Slated
"We, the citizens of Newcastle (the letter was signed by two of them), deem it our duty as freeborn Briton subjects to give free expression to bur sentiments an hearing the decision by the bench of magistrates…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Court Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m
THREE CHARGES.—Ronald Raymond Love, 25, labourer, of Hart-street, Euroa (Victoria), was remanded till next Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Court At Cessnock (Before Judge Amsberg) Appeal Succeeds
Eric Nelson Pry or (23), of McGrane St., Cessnock, appealed against a fine of £15 at Kurri Court last year, when he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. T. H. D. See, S.m.)
REMANDED.—Alan Johnson. 36, labourer, was remanded to Teralba Court on March 11 on the following charges: At Teralba…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Charged Man's Wife Dying; Case Relisted
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Judge Rooney, in Quarter Sessions, postponed the hearing of a charge against a man to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Play Led To Murder Bid
LONDON. Wednesday (A.A.P.). — A man tried to strangle a woman after listening…
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Cases for hearing at Newcastle Civil Causes Court to-day are.—10 a.m., Vranesic v. Commissioner for Government…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle Court Before Mr R. A. Hardwicke S.m
BOND.—John Burns, 18,labourer, was sentenced to six months' gaol on each of two charges of theft. The sentences…
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