Police Fire On Speeding Motorists
NEW YORK, April 4 A.A.P.—The Police Chief in Vincennes (Indiana), Mr. James Harlow, said his order…
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Courts & crime, 1954
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Police Accuse Husband Of Knife Attack
SYDNEY.—A Glebe barrowman had attacked his wife with a knife and attacked her again while she…
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An escapade in which a party of coalfields men returning from a shooting expedition on Saturday…
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A man who allegedly threatened to kill a ticket-examiner and "get" a railway-guard was described by Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., as "a larrikin and hoodlum" at Maitland Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Premier Defends Police Bitter Attack On Newspapers
SYDNEY: Members of the police force who betrayed their trust and failed to live up to a high standard of duty and conduct, should be purged immediately, the Premier (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heard "Rumors" of Assaults by Police, Says Doctor
SYDNEY: Dr. Kevin Patrick Connors, resident casualty department officer at St. Vincent's Hospital, told the Studley - Ruxton Royal Commission today that during his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →30 Years' Gaol For Airman
LONDON. — A U.S. Air Force court martial in Bavaria sentenced airman Winston K. Hinton to 30…
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The dapper little man rose from his chair and impatiently paced the shabby office. The big fellow watched him, uneasily. "But gee, Boss, you…
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SYDNEY: A mother charged with the murder by poison of her simple-minded son died of cancer in Ryde Hospital on Sunday. The day her son died the mother said to a…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Attacks on the Police Department by some sections of the Sydney Press, if continued, "would destroy the morale and efficiency of the force," the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Seek Cooler Summer Dress
SYDNEY, Monday.—Police officers often faced ridicule because of their uniform, a delegate to the annual meeting…
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LONDON. — A plan to use X-ray pictures in Identification work has been thought out by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rylands Strike Court Order Defied
Two shifts of warehouse employees at Rylands Works yesterday afternoon and at midnight defied a Court order to keep working…
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SYDNEY: Detectives are searching for a 14-year-old girl cat-burglar, who, it is claimed, has entered two city stores. The detectives already have charged a 17-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, S.m
SMASHED WINDOW.—Nelson Charles Sutton, 19, labourer, was fined £5 and ordered to pay £2/10/ compensation for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, S.m.) Assaulted Porter
Frederick William Eade of Park Ave., Kotara, was fined £10 with 12s court costs after pleading guilty to having…
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BENDIGO.—Mrs. Dorothy Beck, 31, was charged today with having murdered her husband, Ivan…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Police charged Dorothy Beck, 31, to-day with having murdered her husband, Ivan…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Former Mayor Sent to Gaol
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A former mayor of Leichhardt was sentenced in the Quarter Sessions to-day to nine months' hard labour for having accepted a £250 bribe…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Resignation
Tommasi Pavone (right), who recently resigned as Chief of the Italian Police as a result of the Montesi death case scandal in Rome, seen with Colonel Umberto Pompei, of the Italian Carabiniere Corps…
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