Divorce Court
MR. JUSTICE RICHARDSON began the hearing at Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday of a…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 69 of 125
"£27,000 In Suitcase" Mailbag Theft Charges Open
KATOOMBA, Wednesday.—A man had left a suitcase containing £27,000 in notes at a friend's flat in Sydney and had told his friend the suitcase contained books,…
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I'm the careful type myself. Everything I do is planned to the last detail, and I'm not satisfied…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The engine of the South Coast Daylight Express was derailed as it was travelling at 45 miles an hour through Bull this…
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WOLLONGONG: Detectives will sift hundreds of tons of sand for a clue in, the golf links murder…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Police captured a 16-year-old youth to-day after a chase through houses and yards at Williamstown. The youth was reported…
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NEW YORK, Wed. (O.S.R.): Police last week smashed a gambling ring which had been using electronic gadgets to fleece Amercian bookmakers of more than half a…
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SYDNEY: Before prosecuting for alleged breaches of rite compulsory unionism law, most big unions, apart from the Clerks' Union, will await the outcome of a High Court challenge. The Clerks' Union,…
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SYDNEY: At a compulsory conference in the Industrial Commission today, Mr. Justice Webb directed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
BETTING.âKevin Hardy, 27, miner, was fined £30 for having been in Glebe road, Merewether on Saturday, for the…
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MEN GAOLED.âJames Richard Heatherill, 30, minor, of Armidale-street, Aberman and Ronald Francis Farrell. 18,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwlcke, S.m.) Traffic Offences
Penalties were:— No Cycle Lights: Cliff Pratt, Bourke St., Carrington, Ss with 12s costs…
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PERTH: Mr. Justice Virtue yesterday sentenced Redmond O'Dwyer, 37, former accountant of A.N.A.,…
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LOS ANGELES, Thur. (O.S.R.): Law student Duane Vest, 25, took his first stab at arguing a…
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PERTH, Thursday.—A former Australian National Airways accountant, Redmund Hurley O'Dwyer, 37, was…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Three men were sentenced to 2½ years' gaol by Judge Clegg to-day for having stolen £2000…
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The following police in the North-eastern Division have been transferred—Constables R. A. F. Cunningham,…
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LONDON, July 29. A.A.P.—In Hechingen (South Germany) a 48-year-old German "gentleman crook," who said that he only robbed castles, was gaoled for six years yesterday…
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LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.): An ex-Nazi killer of 114 Jewish slave laborers was gaoled for life in Vienna yesterday while the kindly anti-Nazi warder of a wartime French gaol returned to his native Germany from a goodwill tour to his former prisoners…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Detectives to-day sieved sand around the 17th tee of Wollongong golf links for a clue…
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