Police To Question Man Over Body In Yarra
MELBOURNE: Detectives left early today to question a man about the death of a medical orderly whose body was found in the Yarra yesterday. The man sought lives in…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 56 of 125
Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Remanded
Edward Richard Pugh (27), salesman, was remanded to July 29 on £20 ball on a charge of driving a car in…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.— Albert Michael Allen, 17, apprentice engineer, was charged to-day with having…
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CANBERRA, Monday.— Police to-night charged a man with having indecently assaulted a five-year-old girl. The…
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A 23-year-old Dutchman pleaded "Not guilty" at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday to having broken into an office at Cessnock on March 18…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.— Ronald Eugene Smith, 25, of Illawarra-road, Kensington, in the City Court to-day, was…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Water police to-day discovered the body of William Partridge, of Glebe, fioating in Sydney…
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MILDURA.—A man was killed by a hit-run driver at Dareton last night. The nan's body was…
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SYDNEY: Authoritative legal decisions on infant custody cases had given little or no consideration to persons who had possession of the children, Mr. J W. Shand, Q.C., told…
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SYDNEY: Charged with abduc[?] a six. year-old girl from St. Kilda., Melbourne, a young woman appeared in Central Court today. The woman Colleen…
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SYDNEY: A commercial artist accused of raping three young Sydney models had admitted that he had planned the offences, a detective told Central Criminal Court today. Det.-Set. E. N. Giles…
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The Police Department will be asked by Newcastle City Council to exercise stricter supervision of a bus shelter shed…
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Judge Amsberg, at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday, criticised allegations of assault and false evidence made by a 24-year-old Dutchman against Cessnock police. His Honor's comment…
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DRIVING UNDER INFLUENCE. —Three motorist, were placed on bonds of £30 for two years for having driven…
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FOR TRIAL.—Douglas Maxwell Bruce, 26, barman, was committed for trail at Newcastle Sessions, on August 9. on a…
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SYDNEY: A bookmaker had offered a greyhound trainer half the takings of four bookmakers if the trainer would administer a drug to a greyhound bitch, Mr. Harvey, S.M., was told at Paddington Court today…
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LONDON: Three policemen were gaoled at the Old Bailey for stealing from a workshop in Brixton…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (O.S.R.).—The Brooklyn Appellate Division has held that a wife who steals…
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An enginedriver was sentenced to a month's gaol by Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., at Muswellbrook Court…
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WELLINGTON, June 23. A.A.P.-Reuter.—Pauline Yvonne Parker. 16, was charged in Christchurch to-day with…
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