Suspended Gaol Terms for Migrants
Two New Australians were given suspended gaol sentences of six months in Lismore Petty Sessions yesterday for stealing workers' compensation and unemployment relief cheques from…
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Courts & crime, 1953
707 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 4 of 36
Drink Charges in Court
Mr. K. Anderson, S.M., admonished and discharged two men who appeared in Lismore Court of Petty Sessions…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man charged with the murder of a woman had said that if he was in the woman's room on the night of the murder he must have had a blackout, the City Coroner's Court was told today…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP).—Thirteen "second string" Communist leaders were sentenced yesterday to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The City Coroner, Mr. E. J. Forrest, today committed for trial, Robert Henry Bungate, on a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£1325 Theft From Railways Alleged
CASINO, Wednesday.—A Kyogle man was charged before Mr. D. J. Lake, S.M., in Casino Court of Petty Sessions today with stealing goods valued at £1325 from the Commissioner…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A 32 years old customs agent in Central Court today was fined £50 and placed on a £100 bond to be of good behaviour for five years after He had pleaded guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Doctor Tells Court Colleages Said He Was Making Too Much Money
WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—A doctor said in Wollongong District Court today he had been accused by a colleague of making, more money after six months in the district than some doctors had made after several years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kyogle Man Charged with £1325 Theft From Rlwys. Dept
A Kyogle man was charged before Mr. D. J. Lake, S.M., in Casino Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday with stealing goods valued at £1325 from the…
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KYOGLE, Thursday.âA man who allegedly committed an Indecent assault on a young girl at the Gorge swimming…
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SIDNEY, Thursday.—The State Government will offer a £1000 reward for information leading to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lismore Theatres Star Court
"LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER".—One of the notable revivals of the season is the spectacular production, "Lives Of A Bengal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Husband Swore At Radio, Court Told
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A woman told the Divorce Court today that her husband shouted and swore at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Magistrate Imposes Fine For Liquor After Hours Offence No Conviction to Be Recorded Against Licensee
Kyogle publican William Emery Thompson was on Wednesday fined £10 for supplying liquor after hours to Francis Farrell of Kyogle. Magistrate K. Anderson, who imposed the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mystery Phone Calls Before Brutal Murder
BRISBANE, Monday.— Betty Thompson Shanks, 22, had received two mystery 'phone calls two days before she was brutally murdered, Brisbane Coroner's Court was told today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →DOYLE No Police Glue on Whereabouts
SYDNEY, Monday.—Senior police officers admitted tonight they still had no definite clue as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At Urbenville Court Five Forfeit Bail on Drink Charges
Five charges of being found drunk were heard by Mr. K. Anderson, S.M., in the Urbenville Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday. All five persons charged…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—More than 120 specially picked Sydney police officers have been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hospital Matron Feared Tragedy, Court Told
WOLLONGONG,—Mr. H. Maguire, Q.C., said in the District Court here today, that Matron Lawson, of Wollongong Hospital, had feared a tragedy Would occur if Dr. Henry Michael Price had been permitted to continue with major operations…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol Sentences for Stealing Letters
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Alfred Jesse Kemsley, 39, Oxford Street, Paddington, G.P.O. letter sorter, was sent to gaol for 18 months at the Quarter Sessions today for the theft of four…
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