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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime
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A former Broadwater police constable was given a suspended sentence of six months hard labour at Ballina Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for stealing a rowing boat during the 1948…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BREMERSDORP, Sunday (AAP).—A twelve-year-old African Boy, Solinye, was chained to a fig tree for nine months until he became a living skeleton. Then he was murdered and pieces of his flesh were used to make stew. Other pieces were kneaded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Arthur P. Rayner, 45, of Kyogle, Tailed to appear befor the Magistrates yesterday when he was charged with being drunk on Saturday last in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A man who came home one afternoon and assaulted his wife, after a lengthy period of harmonious wedded bliss, was fined £94- at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A former cream carrier who sold two cream cans belonging to Norco Co-op. Ltd. to farmers was fined £10 and ordered to pay the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A farewell was tendered at Lismore Court of Petty Sessions yesterday to the deposition clerk, Mr. Keith Rodey…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In a case at Mullumbimby Court of Petty Sessions last week Ernest Jarman was sentenced to gaol for two months on a charge involving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Awaiting trial for murder, 20 year old John Edward Martin hanged himself in his cell at Long Bay Gaol today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Sydney stayer, Playboy, is a doubtful runner against Comic Court in the Ercildoune Stakes at Flemington on…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →BRISBANE, Thursday.—William Smith, 63, cattle dealer, and Alma Mabel Walsh, 48, housewife, of Shorncliffe, Sandgate, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN SENTENCING the assistant secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation, Mr. E. Roach, to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police are investigating the theft of a sum of money from a house in Ballina Street, Lismore, on Friday night…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—Mercy killing was no defence, the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. F. Nelson) told a Criminal Court jury today after he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A registered jockey said in the Lismore Court of Petty Sessions yesterday he punched a woman racehorse owner on the nose after she had hit him three times with a broom and split open his forehead…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In evidence during the hearing of an assault charge against Roger Hartley Sims, jockey, of Keen Street, Lismore, Const. J. O'Neil…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lismore police have sought the co-operation of TweedLismore Pastures Protection Board in investigations into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A doctor told a Criminal Court jury today that a young doctor's widow, charged with the murder of her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—According to evidence given in the Police Court today, a man charged with racehorse doping had claimed he had given a drug to Plymacre in a thistle…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The High Court decision on the validity of the Communist Party Dissolution Act, to be given on Friday, will greatly influence the Federal Government's plans to place Australia on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— A denial that she had killed her baby was made by Joan Isobel Gorr, 27, in the Criminal Court today…
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