Murder Attempt In Goal Alleged
BRISBANE: Brisbane detectives are investigating a report that an underworld figure, "Mr. Big", was attacked by two other prisoners in Boggo Road Gaol yesterday…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 125
Special Police Trace Indians
COLOMBO. — A special police unit is to help the Controller of Immigration to trace Indians who…
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SYDNEY: A woman said in the Quarter Sessions today that she had confessed to stealing £468 from Anthony Hordern and Sons Ltd.. although she had stolen only £30. The manager of a commercial investigation…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Frenchman said in Central Court to-day that a Maltese had bitten off his right ear in…
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SYDNEY.—Two men, allegedly attacked with an axe by a young Chinese seaman, are still in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bizarre Court Cases Pile Up In Britain
LONDON, Thurs.: A man who lost the taste for beer, a housewife who could not enjoy kissing any more, a woman deprived of her husband's physical love because of an accident to him, a child who fell off a rocking horse in a public playground…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
GAOLED.—Samuel Jones, 33, labourer was sentenced to two months' imprisonment to having assaulted Eric Rogers, a…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.— Police and Prisons Comptroller (Mr. W. Rutherford) have made joint investigations into…
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The theft of £261 in cash from the home of Mr. James Trimble, of Rae Crescent, Kotara, is being…
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Police alleged at Maitland Court today that while two migrants held a man on the ground, another smashed a full bottle of wine and jabbed him twice on the arm with the jagged neck as he raised his arm to protect his face…
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NEW DELHI, July 22. A.A.P.—Eight people were killed and 30 injured yesterday when police fired on a crowd…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court Order On Notice To Dawson
SYDNEY, Thursday.—An order was made for service of a bankruptcy notice by regisfered mail on David Stewart…
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BETTING CIARGE.—Edward Triggs, 66, of Main-road, Heddon Greta, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of betting at Heddon…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court A Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Shoplifting
Daisy Coucn (56). domestic duties, was fined £10 for stealing a chamois cloth, a packet of steel wool and a bottle of…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Kevin Eugene Duggan, 55, war pensioner, in Brisbane to-day was committed for trial on a…
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A one-legged man, who had been arrested while on his way to Maitland Police Station to surrender, was…
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LONDON, July 23. A.A.P.—William Sanchez de Pina Hepper, 62, artist was sentenced to death at Lewes (Sussex)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Migrant "Hit Head On Wall" Court Told
A Ukrainian migrant who had threatened to kill himself had run around the cell at Greta Police Station, battering his head against the wall while a constable…
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PERTH, Sunday.âA woman is alleged to have killed her 19-year-old son with an axe at her home at Midland…
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SYDNEY: An 18-year-old youth was charged in Liverpool Court today with the murder of his father. He is Robert George Marlin of Goulburn St…
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