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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 125

London Police Puzzled By Love Potion Deaths

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 2

LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.): Detectives investigating the death of two London office girls from a poisonous love notion, spent most of yesterday questioning their office manager. The man, Arthur Ford…

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Detective "Frisks" Q.C.—In Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday. — A detective "frisked" Mr. J. E. Cassidy, Q.C., at the Royal Commission to-day to show how he searched David Edward Studley-Ruxton for firearms on February 25…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 10

REMANDED.—Bruce Edward Crawford, 40, waiter, was remanded till Tuesday on charges of vagrancy and of having…

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Charge Of Stealing House

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A 45-year-old chef was charged to-day with the larceny of a…

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£3000 Jewellery Theft Reported

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday—A jewellery traveller has reported to police that jewellery worth £3000 was stolen from a…

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2 Years' Gaol For Solicitor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—A Sydney solicitor, whose offences were said to be largely due to carelessness and not necessarily…

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Woman Faces Murder Trial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—A married woman was committed for trial by the City Coroner to-day on a charge of having…

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Convicts Escape From Gaol Farm

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 2

ATMORE (Alabama), Sun. (A.A.P.): A group of convicts cut through a steel mesh fence while a…

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Scotland Yard Murder Series

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 2

"The Man Who played Murder," the next article in the Scotland Yard murder series, will appear…

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Police Cadet's Injuries Fatal

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY: An 18-year-old police cadet died in Liverpool Hospital late yesterday from head injuries…

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Police Probe Youth's Death

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY: Police are investigating the death of a youth who was found in a gas-filled, room early today…

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Father To Go To Gaol For Beating Son Aged 15

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 14

MELBOURNE: A father's appeal against a two-year gaol sentence for beating his 15-year-old son was rejected yesterday by the Court of Criminal Appeals. Arthur Victor Murray…

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Ruxton Inquiry No Violence, Police Say

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The only time David Edward Studley-Ruxton was touched at Darlinghurst Police Station on February 25 was when he was searched,…

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From the Archives of Scotland Yard Man Who Played Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 13

It was an uproarious party at the Hogg's house that New Year's Eve. Nobody went to bed that…

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Heated Court Clash By Judge And Q.C.

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: In a heated clash Mr. Justice Dovey today withdrew the leave of Mr. J. E. Cassidy, Q.C. to appear at the Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission, but shortly Rafter directed him to continue his examination of a police witness…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Traffic Offences

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 May 1954 · page 17

Penalties were— Zdlslaw Kurzyldo, 23 laborer, £15 for riding a motor cycle on Maitland Rd., Sandgate, on…

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Bankrupt Sentenced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Edgar Sachter, 47, of Double Bay, a bankrupt textile importer, was sentenced to-day by Mr…

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Excess Drink 'Menace': Magistrate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 5

The excessive consumption of liquor, particularly by the younger members of the community, was a grave social…

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Turncoat Given 10 Years' Gaol

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 8

WASHINGTON, Tues. (A.A.R.)—A military court today sentenced Corporal Edward Dickenson to 10 years' gaol for offences while a war prisoner…

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Police Hunt Avon Killer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1954 · page 6

LONDON, May 4. A.A.P. —Detectives hunting the strangler of a 45-year-old spinster midwife last night…

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