Mother Of Four Sent To Gaol
BENDIGO, Wednesday.— Mrs. Dorothy Beck, 31-year-old mother of four children, was found guilty of the…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 57 of 125
50 Questioned On Murder
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— C.I.B. detectives investigating the murder of a Bondi estate agent on June 7 have…
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PARIS (O.S.R.): Mrs. Lillian Dixon (29), an Englishwoman, wept when a Paris Court sentenced her to three years' imprisonment for passing fraudulent cheques. She was also fined £100. The court found that…
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CHRISTCHURCH (N.Z.), Thurs.: Forbidden to join a pony club, a 16-year-old girl yesterday bartered her mother to death with a housebrick, police claimed today. Murder charges have…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —A policeman wounded a suspected car thief at Clifton Hill to-night…
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Before proceedings began at Wallsend Court yesterday, Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., said he saw that Sergeant G…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Trade-unions were faced with difficult problems because of the set-up of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, Mr. J. Cranwell, former…
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SYDNEY: The Supreme Court today set aside an order which had disqualified a Springwood doctor for having improperly given drugs to his sick wife. The court unanimously…
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LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): A pretty Australian girl told a London Court yesterday a man who proposed marriage to her had disappeared after she had given him sums totalling £240. The girl is Odette…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
ASSAULT CHARGE.âThe hearing will be continued this morning of a charge against Stanley Cleslak 32, rigger of…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A total of £1380 was stolen from Sydney G.P.O. early to-day. A small brown mailbag…
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Sentencing a man to 12 months' gaol, Judge Amsberg said at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday that his dreadful act had been almost counterbalanced by the fact…
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John Vile Russell, 33, of Raymond-street, Telarah, was sentenced to three years' gaol by Judge Curlewis at Sydney…
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CHRISTCHURCH (A.A.P. Reuter). — Stolen goods worth £3000 were found by Christchurch detectives…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The State Full Court unanimously ordered to-day that Dr. Joseph Roy Baker, formerly of Springwood, should be restored to the Medical Register…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Traffic Breaches
Penalties were: Disobey "halt" sign: John W. Waugh of Church-st., Newcastle, £2 8s with 12s costs,…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Monthly Barry, 45, of Collins-street Annandale, was seriously injured when he was struck by…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A father pleaded for leniency to-day for a man who had indecently assaulted his two…
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LONDON, June 25. A.A.P. —William John (Bill) Edrich, rest and Middlesex county cricketer, will appear at the…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. — Police will be on duty outside the Petroy Royal Commission hearings each day of…
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