Contractor Charged; Mine Case
LITHGOW, Monday.—A Lithgow contractor was charged to-day with false pretences and conspiracy in what has become…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 29 of 125
2 Men Remanded; Theft Charges
SYDNEY, Monday.—Two engineers were remanded in Central Court to-day on charges of having stolen…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Judge Rooney in the Quarter Sessions to-day sent a taxi driver to gaol for nine months on a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Northern Police Transfered
The following police in the North-eastern Division have been transferred.â Sergeants E. G. Attrill,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—David Edward Studley-Ruxton, in a statutory declaration read at the Royal Commission to-day, alleged he was repeatedly and violently beaten by police on February 25. Studley-Ruxton admitted to the Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deputation By Police To Premier
SYDNEY, Monday.—A deputation protested to the Premier (Mr. Cahill) to-day against Press criticism of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Doctor 'Unhappy' Court Told
SYDNEY, Monday.—Dr. Robert Alexander de Castro Basto, Macquarie-street specialist, had attempted to…
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SYDNEY.—Hearing of four charges against David Studley-Buxton (32), salesman, of Crick-ave., Potts…
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"It's a very wise and proper thing for two old friends like the parties in this case to reach a settlement", remarked Mr. Justice Herron, when a claim for injuries received in a motor accident ended in an agreement in Newcastle Supreme Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Court Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m
TWO COMMITTED. — John Vile Russell, 32, labourer, of Raymond-street, Telarah, and Ronald Raymond Love, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Court Before Mr L. E. Stapleton, S.m
ASSAULTED POLICEMAN.—Charles Redman, 45 miner, was fined £20 for having assaulted Sergeant R. V. Hurtz at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Evidence of Police Murder Threat
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—David Edward Studley-Ruxton, 32, said to-day that two detective at Darlinghurst Police Station had threatened to murder him and he had believed the threat was serious. He said he took the threat as serious because men who had done…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Salute Of Victory When Sentenced To Death
LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): A young man clasped his hands over his head in a boxer's victory grip when sentenced to death yesterday. On the way down to the…
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LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.): International smuggler Ronald Chesney had offered an ex-convict and an R.A.F. officer money to get rid of his wife so that he could marry a German girl, an inquest jury was told today…
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SYDNEY: Dr. Robert Alexander de Castro Basto was not a sinister man who had planned to murder his baby daughter, Mr. M, D. Healy submitted in Central Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →House Refuses Inquiry Into Police
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The State Government refused to-night to appoint a Royal commission to inquire into allegations of graft and corruption in the N.S.W. police…
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WASHINGTON, March 23. A.A.P.—Police throughout the United States have been warned that saboteurs may smuggle small atomic weapons into the country…
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MELBOURNE: A 33-year-old judge's associate from Sydney was fined £3 in the City ? Court today for having smeared white zinc cream on the clothing of two men near…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The State Full Court to-day ordered a re-trial of an action last year in which a Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →'No Desire To Live,' Court Told
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A detective-sergeant said in the Central Criminal Court to-day that a Macquarie-street…
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