Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, S.m.) Traffic Offences Penalties were—
Speeding: Francis J. Rayner of Pacific Highway, Cordon, £4 8s with 12s costs; Francis Struddert of New England…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 125
Theft At School Affects Pupils
The theft of metalwork tools worth £40 from Plattsburg school last mouth had seriously affected the work of…
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GEORGETOWN (British Guiana), April 8, A.A.P.—Police used tear gas in dispersing a crowd of 300 demonstrators who pelted them with stones and bottles late last night. The crowd first collected…
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Judge Amsberg today praised the actions of a 14-year-old schoolboy for attempting to stop his father from assaulting his mother. The boy's mother. Mrs…
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SYDNEY: A woman told Paddington Court today that a man had pushed her head-first down a flight of stairs last night. Ralph Evesson, 31, laborer, of Sir Thomas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. T. H. D. SEE, S.M.
BEGGING CHARGE.—Edward Francis Edinbrough, 52, labourer, was remanded to Monday without ball on a charge of…
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LONDON, April 9. A.A.P.—William Sanchez de Pinar Hepper, 62-year-old artist, charged with the murder of an…
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Cases for hearing at Newcastle District Court on Monday, beginning at noon, are Connors v. Commissioner for…
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Judge Amsberg heard two undefended petitions at Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday. The issue was found answered in the affirmative in both petitions…
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A Newcastle motion will ask the Stale conference of A.L.P. Industrial Groups in Sydney to-morrow to move for a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, S.m
GAOLED.—John Samlel Abel, 58, labourer, was sentenced to six months' gaol for vagrancy. The Police Prosecutor (Sergeant…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Loeline McCarthy, 30, of John-street, Waterloo, was remanded till Thursday at Central Court…
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A man who was charged at Singleton Court today with assaulting his son occasioning him actual…
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LONDON, April 11. A.A.P.—The wife of a condemned bandit tried to save him from the hangman's rope last night by leading a shooting raid on the Hyderabad Gaol; 100…
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SYDNEY: A Greek migrant who tried to blind a drink waiter with a jagged glass was sent to gaol today for five years. Judge Holden in the Quarter Sessions directed…
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CAIRO, April 11. A.A.P.—Two men were sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour for complicity in an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →French Red Paper Seized By Police
PARIS, Mon (A.A.P.).—The French Communist Party flouted police yesterday by issuing a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Cases At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Charge Dismissed
Mr. Hardwicke, dismissed a charge of stealing against William Walter Haydn (22), laborer, who, police said, had no…
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Scrupulous fairness had been shown by police officers in continuing tests which they knew were ruining their own case against a motorist, Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M.,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Charges against Frederick James Anderson, 38, clerk, of having demanded money with…
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