Line-ups At Commission Five Police Identified
SYDNEY, Monday.—David Edward Studley-Ruxton to-day identified five police officers who, he claims, assaulted him at Darlinghurst Police Station on February 25…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 32 of 125
Newspapers in Locker Told Story of Police Search
SYDNEY.—A man who police arrested and charged with the murder of a C.S.I.R.O scientist had a neatly stacked pile of newspapers in his locker which carried stories detailing…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, S.m.)
GAOL FOR ASSAULT.âRalph Henry Sidebottom, 50, miner, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, S.m.) Licensee Fined
George Cameron, licensee of Cameron's Family Hotel, Hunter St., Newcastle, was fined £5 with 12s court costs when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court At Cessnock (Before Mr. F. R. Wood. S.m.) Drunken Driving Fine
James Jurd of Campbell St., Cessnock, pleaded guilty to a charge of having driven a car in Wollombi Rd., Cessnock, on…
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Reginald James Perry (29), of Charlestown, was found not guilty of indecent assault but guilty of common assault against a…
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SYDNEY.—A 24-year-old laborer, Ronald Vin[?]nt Holl, was today com[?]itted for trial on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girl Alleges Assault On Lonely Track In Bush
After she had accepted an offer of a lift home in a car in Hunter-st. she was driven to a lonely bush track at Raymond Terrace and indecently assaulted a 21-year-old girl alleged in Newcastle Quarter Sessions today…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A ballistics expert said to-day that a bullet removed from the body of Olaf Perkman had been fired from a rifle found in a house at Herne Bay…
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Cessnock Police Boys' Club opened its public activities at Cessnock last night with an inter-club boxing tournament…
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SYDNEY: A laborer aged 33 was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude today for the manslaughter of a 21-year-old man, which the judge said was "scarcely distinguishable from murder." Mr. Justice Myers said:…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Scared, Says Studley-Ruxton
SYDNEY.—David Edward Studley-Ruxton alleged today that Detective-Inspector J., H. Aldridge was "a frightened man" when he asked Studley-Ruxton to sign a statement that he had been involved in a fight before his arrest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Offer To Police Boys' Club
Maitland Lions Club had offered to grade and beautify the grounds of Maitland Police-Citizens Boys' Club, the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In Court At Newcastle REMANDED
Samuel George Randell (32), laborer, was remanded to Apr. 12 on £40 bail with surety on a charge of having at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Contempt Action Court Holds Over Ruling
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Full Supreme Court to-day reserved judgment on contempt proceedings brought by the Crown, against the "Sydney Morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Impressions At The Ringside Police Boys' Club Bouts
It was "boxing" night for Police Boys of Cessnock last night when a big crowd attended Cessnock Showground. The photographer caught some good studies in expression. Pictures stun (1) J. McCarthy of Cessnock (black shorts) winning his match on points. (2) John Hughes, 14, Maitland (at right), who fought a thrilling four-rounder with E. Drake of Cessnock. (3) Wally Rawson of Cessnock looks fierce as he prepares to attack in his match with W. Turner, Maitland. Rawson won on points. Interested spectators, some of them seeing their first fight, provide other studies of expression. They were members of girls' marching teams. (4) Margaret Williams, Cessnock. (5) Joan Ord, Cessnock, whose brother was fighting when the picture was taken…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, S.m
REMANDED.—Kevin Reid Bainbridge, 26. bulider, was remanded to May 20, on £5 bail, on two charges of having…
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Reginald James Perry, 29, labourer, was found guilty, at Newcastle Sessions yesterday, of having assaulted a 20-year-old girl in bush near Raymond Terrace. The jury found Perry not…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Vicar Guilty Of Assault
LONDON.âRev. Eber Edward Wright, vicar of Albrighton, was bound over for assaulting a…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A 19-year-old labourer was detained at Alpha to-day for questioning over the murder…
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