Divorce Court
Judge Amsberg found the issue answered in the affirmative in each of two undefended petitions heard…
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Courts & crime, 1954
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Police Fear Man Murdered
BRISBANE, Wednesday. — Police at Tara, in South-western Queensland, are almost certain that John Malcolm…
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BRISBANE: Police investigating the death of a station overseer believe he was given a…
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LAUNCESTON: A woman who saw a child thrashed did not report the matter to police because she feared the woman who administered the beating. The woman who saw the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Played "Head 'Em"
Twenty-four men were each fined 38s for playing this game off Croudace St. Lambton on May 12 at 4.15 p.m. They…
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After nearly seven years, a man was today charged with breaking, entering and stealing when he was…
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BRISBANE, Thursday. —Police at Tara to-day charged Leslie James McKay, 37, with the wilful murder of John…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday. —Three Ferntree Gully Technical School boys, two aged 13 and one 11, will be…
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Finding me issue answered in the affirmative in a case at Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday. Judge Amsberg said…
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At Newcastle Court to-day Noel Desmond Neville, 38 barman, was charged with having at Hexham…
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LONDON.—Giving judo lessons to five St. Albans policewomen is Mrs. Eileen Myland, 22, holder of the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — An allegedly stolen car being chased by Safety Bureau police to-night crashed into the…
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LAUNCESTON.—A woman had admitted flogging a 5 1/2-year-old girl three times in a week, a detective claimed in the Coroner's Court. He said the woman told him she had given the…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday. —The Arbitration Court may rule soon whether it or a union Federal executive has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Judge On Police Force "Root Out Any Black Sheep"
SYDNEY: If there were "black sheep" in the police force they should be "rooted out," said Judge Berne at Parramatta Quarter Sessions today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Teralba Court Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m
REMANDED.—Arthur Henry Harvey, 22, driver was further remanded till June 17 on a part heard charge of negligent…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke S.m
FOR TRIAL. — Andrew John Cougle. 26 ship's joiner, was committed for trial on a charge of having driven a car…
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A man was charged in Newcastle Court yesterday with having murdered a woman at Hexham on Thursday night…
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Mayfield Business Men's Club and representatives of Waratah-Mayfield R.S.L. sub-branch and Waratah Bowling…
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REMANDED.—David Hunter, 21, bus conductor was remanded till June 18 on three charges of traffic offences in…
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