Gaol Work Hours "A Right"
LONDON, May 27. A.A.P. —British long-term convicts, used to working 4½ hours a day, would resort to…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 49 of 125
10 Injured In Gaol Riot
LONDON, May 27. A.A.P. —Prisoners who mutinied at Wandsworth prison yesterday barricaded themselves in a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — A disabled ex-serviceman was killed while crossing a road between the yellow lines, the…
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SYDNEY—Detectives are searching for four bodgie-type youths who bashed a man and robbed him of his…
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SYDNEY: A police inspector denied today that an arrangement had been made by police concerning a Surry Hills "two-up" raid. The inspector, Detective-Inspector Emerson, of 21…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Search for Armed Man
Police searched scrub in the West Wallsend area last night for an armed man who is alleged to have fired a shot in the direction of children at Barnsley and then…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol Term As No Work Break Miner Gets Long Service Leave
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Coal Industry Tribunal (Mr. Gallagher) held to-day that a Bellbird miner who had been gaoled for non-compliance with a maintenance order had not broken continuity of employment and was therefore…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court To Decide On Baby
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The State Full Court sat specially to-day to hear an appeal by a grazier and his…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Phony" Two-Up Raid Alleged Special Police Inquiry Ordered By Delaney
SYDNEY: The Police Commissioner (Mr. C. J. Delaney) today ordered a special inquiry into allegations that a "phony raid" was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court Summons Division. Before Mr. R. A. HARDWICKE, S.M.
DROVE NEGLIGENTLY.—Roy Patrick Mangan, of Alfred-street, Waratah, was fined £2, with 12/ costs and £2/10/…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Reports of a plot to free Darcy Dugan and another criminal from Grafton Gaol were…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — A 39-year-old man was sentenced to 12 years' gaol to-day on three charges of having set on fire…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — The driver of a car that knocked down a 12-year-old boy last night waited for the lad to…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Delaney) said to-day that a police raid on a two-up "school" at Surry Hills last night was genuine…
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"The police are rotten. If I had my way I would shoot the lot," declared Keith Fleming (19), laborer, in Newcastle Court today…
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MELBOURNE: Two young women prisoners escaped from Pentridge yesterday by walking from their bungalow in the gaol and in broad daylight climbing over the prison farm wall. The woman who in their their shoes when they got less police were patrolling…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Stones, bottles and an iron bar were thrown at police investigating an alleged attack…
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SYDNEY.—Police arrested 27 motorists for serious breaches in a traffic blitz in the past 48 hours, the…
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A man said at Maitland Supreme Court today that since a car accident on Jan. 30, 1952, he had…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Offensive Behavior
William Joseph Huehes (51), seaman, was fined £5 for offensive behavior at Wickham on May 29; Algls Liuga (19)…
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