'Hotel' For Good Gaol Prisoners
WALLA-WALLA (Washington), Wed — A cream-colored "hotel" costing £750,000 has been erected on a hill here to house 300 "good" gaol prisoners…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 55 of 125
Divorce Court At Maitland
A woman who sought the dissolution of her marriage to an habitual criminal was granted a decree nisi and given…
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After a retirement of 62 minutes, a Maitland Supreme Court jury awarded £3305 damages to Leslie Mervyn…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The full Supreme Court to-day ordered a third trial for a damages claim by a road…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
BETTING.—The following were fined for street betting: James Thomas, 48, labourer, £20, for having been in Gowper-street…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Quell Berlin Riot
BERLIN, June 17. A.A.P.—An angry West Berlin crowd to-day beat up a small group of Communists who tried to unset a mass rally held outside the West Berlin City…
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KAMPALA (Uganda), June 17. A.A.P.—Two European police officers were [?] wounded by gunfire last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Divorce Court in Newcastle
Judge Amsberg heard 11 undefended petitions in Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday. The issue was answered in the affirmative in each case…
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LONDON.—Three film star pin-up pictures he stole from a London showcase brought a young…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED. — Leslie Alfred Sharpe, 35, hairdresser, was remanded till June 30 on £240 bail on a charge that at…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Teralba Court Before Mr. F. R. Wood. S.m
NEGLIGENCE.—Arthur Henry Harvey, 22, truck driver, was fined £10 for having driven a truck negligently at the Cross…
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CHICAGO, June 18. A.A.P.— A man who said he robbed a bank so he could pay for a life-long dancing course, was…
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Judge Amsberg heard five undefended petitions at Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday. The issue was answered in the affirmative in each case…
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STEALING.—Richard John Carter, 10, labourer, of Fawcett-street, Mayfield, was sentenced to two months' gaol for having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m
FOR TRIAL.—David Miller, 22, labourer was committed for trial at Newcastle Quarter Sessions on a charge of having, at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gaol Visitors As Hostages
LANSING (Kansas), Sun. (A.A.P.): Six armed convicts at Kansas State Penitentiary today killed a guard and held seven visitors as hostages in a bid for freedom…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.— Two-up players will now face a maximum gaol sentence of six months…
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SYDNEY: A commercial artist had gone about his preparations for the rape of three Sydney models with a skill and organisation which would have been much better suited for a more important undertaking, the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. L. C. Furnell) told a…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.— A six-year-old girl, Pamela Walton, of Irrawarra-road, Flemington, died while being…
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SYDNEY: The Full Supreme Court today ordered two unnamed lawyers to show cause why their names shoud not be struck from the rolls of solicitors. A third solicitor, also…
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