Man On Wool Theft Charges
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—James Singleton, 33, labourer, of Mary-street, Annandale, at Central Court to-day was…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 125
Savage London Murder
LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—Police last night were hunting for a "maniac" who bludgeoned a hotel…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An immediate judicial inquiry into allegations by a Melbourne man that police had assaulted him was directed to-day by the Premier…
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SYDNEY.—In a dawn swoop on three Paddington homes, C.I.B. detectives to-day arrested three teenage…
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A young man who pleaded guilty in Newcastle Court today to the theft of 13 bicycles over a…
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TOKYO, March 9. A.A.P.-Reuter.—A Japanese court in Kure to-day sentenced three British soldiers to terms of…
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WASHINGTON, March 9. A.A.P.—The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that testimony by a witness before a…
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Several men were charged with having gaming house as the result of a raid on Monday night…
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A Supreme Court judge adjourned his court to a small bedroom in the residents' quarters at Royal Newcastle Hospital today to take the evidence of a doctor too ill to be brought to Newcastle Court-house…
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GIVEN BOND.—Mervyn Ford, 30, butcher, was put on a £20 bond for 12 months on a charge of having driven while…
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Several new and important lines of inquiry were followed today by a large squad of Newcastle detectives in the search…
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SYDNEY: The Attorney-General (Mr. Sheahan) will not recommend to the Government that allegations of assault by the police made by Alan Pierpoint Rigby be…
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LEOPOLDVILLE Crime has increased so much in the Belgian Congo because quite a few people want to…
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SANTIAGO DE CUBAS, March 10. A.A.P.—Manuel Echevarria was sentenced yesterday to four years'…
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PARIS, March 10. A.A.P.—Optatus Basset, an Inspector of Prisons, was sent to gaol for 18 months in Paris for…
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HOLLYWOOD, March 10. A.A.P.—Mrs. Diane Wells, 31, accused with a negro jazz drummer of the murder of her…
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LONDON, Thurs., (A.A.P.): A taxidriver's good memory led police yesterday to two suspects in the murder o fan elderly night porter at a London hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Check Bribe Allegations
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Police were investigating allegations of bribery against an employee of the Potato…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A packer admitted having drunk a bottle of t[?]allium poison, Detective H. F. Crichton said…
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JOSEPHINE DOROTHY DUTTON, 40, domestic, of Sparke-st. Georgetown, leaving Newcastle Court this morning with her husband…
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