A.c.t.u. Moves for Curb on Court
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The interstate executive of the A.C.T.U. called to-day for a campaign to restore automatic basic wage adjustments and to…
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Courts & crime, 1954
2,498 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 125
Charged Man's Death Under Train
SYDNEY, Friday.—A man charged with having driven the Blue Mountains Express while under the influence of liquor…
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FRANKFURT, Jan. 22. A.A.P.—An American Court to-day sentenced to 23 years' imprisonment a former Soviet…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED.—Charles Demery, 43, wharf labourer, was remanded till Monday on a charge of having stolen, at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Maitland Court Before Mr. F. R. WOOD, S.M.
FALSE PRETENCES.—Richard James Carter, 19, labourer, of Woodville, was fined £20 and ordered to pay £4…
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MELBOURNE: Thieves forced an entrance to the rear of G. A. Drake's premises in Elizabeth-st…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Two armed men threatened detectives with rifles after a stolen car had crashed at Greenslopes, a Brisbane suburb, to-day…
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Some of the members of Newcastle Police Boys' Club City and Suburban A grade team, which defeated New Lambton…
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Police Boys, beaten only once this season, is the outstanding team of the season in C. and S. cricket and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Solicitor Remanded On Change Involving £4700 Sydney: a solicitor, Norman Vincent Stewart (56), was charged in Central Court today with fraudulently failing to account for £4704
Stewart, of Broome-st., Maroubra, was charged by warrant that between August, 1951, and Jan. 22, 1954…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shootings on Farm 'Wild West' Book Seized By Police
BRISBANE: A youth, charged with shooting dead his sister's boy-friend at Monto (Queensland) at the weekend, was reading a Wild West magazine shortly before the shooting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Drove Under Influence
Two motorists, Stewart Robertson (30), driver, and Ronald Francis Tregaskis (27), laborer, were each fined £30 on charges…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Maltese On Ear-Biting Charge Sydney: a Maltese who was alleged to have bitten off a Frenchman's ear appeared before Central Court today
He was Geraldo Schembri, 24, laborer, of Cathedral-st., East Sydney, who was charged with…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—A youth of 16 was remanded for eight days without bail when he was charged in Monto…
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An 18-year-old girl alleged in Newcastle Court yesterday that two young men had assaulted and illtreated heron a bush track near Raymond Terrace on the night of…
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The canteen at the Migrants' Centre, Mayfield West, was broken into at the week-end, and tobacco, clothing and…
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Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., in Newcastle Court today sentenced to nine months' hard labor a plumber who stole money from a house on which he was working. Donald Burt (27)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pole's Alibi For Night Of Murder
SYDNEY: A Polish migrant, Leszek Richard Kaeprzak, admitted at the Coroner's Court today that he was in Shirley Butler's home on Dec. 22, 1952, but denied he was in Waverton on the night she was murdered…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A theory that a woman at Tuncurry was poisoned has been discounted by police…
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More than 1000 police will be on duty in Newcastle for the Royal visit on Feburary 9. Thy will include 700 from Sydney,…
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