Third Missing Child Gives Police Scare
Newcastle police yesterday were alerted for a third time in one week for a missing child. On Wednesday they finished a two-day search for a…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 125
Court Finding In Pit Death
The Cessnock District Coroner (Mr. W. Frazer) found yesterday that Thomas Hardy Johnson, 39, of…
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EXCEEDED SPEED.—Brian J. Hodgins, of Wollombi-road, Farley, was fined £5/8/ with 12/ costs for having exceeded…
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REMANDED.—Roy Hamilton Jones, 26, labourer, was remanded till March 19 on £50 bail on a charge of having…
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SYDNEY: Evidence at the Royal Commission into allegations by David Studley-Ruxton of assault by police will begin next Monday. The heating probably will last for two weeks…
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TOWNSVILLE: Dr. Neville Denning (25), resident doctor at Townsville Hospital, was charged in Townsville Court today with the wilful…
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SYDNEY: A 56-year-old public servant who strangled his wife with a sash cord was today found not guilty of murder on the ground of insanity…
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SYDNEY.—A man who police said had gouged out another man's eye with a broken bottle appeared in…
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CALCUTTA: A daring confidence trickster chose Calcutta's police headquarters, Lall Bazar, to obtain…
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A man who appeared in shirt sleeves before Mr. L. C. Stapleton, S.M., in Newcastle Court today, was ordered outside to get a coat. Sidney Vincent Monroe…
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SYDNEY.—A proposal for the abolition of the Federal Arbitration Court will be discussed by the…
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SYDNEY: A 25-year-old man had threatened to shoot his wife yesterday and commit suicide, a policeman said in the Lunacy Court today. Const. A. J. Lowe, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. L. C. Stapleton, S.m.) Drove Tinder Influence
Kenneth William Bender (31), motor driver, was fined £15 when he pleaded guilty to having driven a car in Belford…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court At Maitland (Before Mr. P. R. Wood. S.m.) Croupier Fined
Arthur Johnson (29), laborer, of Raymond St., Telarah, was fined £10 with 12s costs for having been the croupier…
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Evidence had failed to establish a prima facie case, Mr. L. C. Stapleton, S.M., held at the hearing…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A 35-year-old packer who drank a bottle of thallium and attacked his wife with a knife was…
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LONDON, Tues., (A.A.P.): Warders at Dartmoor have called for a high level inquiry into allegations of graft, brutality and immorality made against Dartmoor…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Neville Denning, 25, resident medical officer at Townsville Hospital, was charged at…
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SYDNEY: A 20-year-old man went berserk and savagely attacked his father after an argument over a light, Central Court was told today. The son, Douglass Barton Bishop, laborer, of…
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ROME, Tues., (A.A.P.): A pretty model shouted during Italy's "drug orgy" trial yesterday, "I am not an accomplice to murder"…
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