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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

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Police Dash After Doyle Report

Northern Star · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Detectives dashed to Clontarf today after receiving a report that Reginald Aubrey…

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Awards to N.s.w. Police Officers

Northern Star · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).—The London Gazette", yesterday announced the award for bravery of the…

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Lismore Theatres Star Court

Northern Star · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 2

"SIROCCO."—Playing one of the best roles of his career, Humphrey Bogart leads the cast in the dynamic drama, "Sirocco," at the…

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87 Sentenced To Death

Northern Star · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 1

BORDEAUX, Friday (AAP).—A French military court today sentenced 87 former German S.S. men to death for their parts in the massacre of 642 men, women and children in the French village of Oradour Sur Glane, in June, 1944…

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Doyle Leaves Long Bay Gaol

Northern Star · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Reginald Aubrey Doyle, 41-year-old investor, was released from Long Bay Gaol on £5,000 bail at nine o'clock tonight. Mr. Barney Goldstein, Sydney financier, who is…

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Gaol for Stealing Watch

Northern Star · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 10

A man who stole a watch from a lorry driver who gave him a temporary job was sentenced in Lismore…

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Ambulance Hampered By Radio Theft

Northern Star · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 5

LITHGOW, Monday.——Thieves who stole vital radio equipment at the weekend have blacked-out…

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Baddeley To Quit Flat: Court Order

Northern Star · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—Director of State Coal Mines and former Cabinet Minister, John Marcos Baddeley, had…

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Police Seize 1200 Pistols

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 February 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Raids by police on suburban homes, and city shops and warehouses have led to the seizing of more than l,200 pistols and the subsequent charging of ten persons on counts associated with the possession of unregistered pistols…

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Court Told Couple Stole Ketch To Elope to N.Z.

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 February 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An 18-year-old Sydney girl and a 19-year-old Victorian soldier who is absent without leave had yesterday set sail to elope to New Zealand in a stolen £5000…

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Gaol Term for Vagrancy

Northern Star · Thursday 19 February 1953 · page 8

CASINO, Wednesday.—A man was sentenced to three months hard labour on a vagrancy charge in Casino Court of…

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Remanded on £1325 Rail Theft Charge

Northern Star · Thursday 19 February 1953 · page 4

CASINO, Wednesday.—A Kyogle man was remanded to-day to appear in Casino Court of Petty Sessions on March 18…

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Death Sentence for Murder of Father

Northern Star · Thursday 19 February 1953 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A 25-year-old navy recruit was sentenced to death for the murder of his father by Mr, Justice Sholl in the Criminal. Court today…

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Threatened to Have Police "Sacked"

Northern Star · Thursday 19 February 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday—Art designer Douglas Shenton Annand, 49, had fought, kicked, and tried to bite three policemen who arrested him on December 5, and had threatened to have them "sacked…

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Doyle Used Fictitious Names, Court Told Refused Answers

Northern Star · Thursday 19 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Reginald Aubrey Doyle told the Bankruptcy Court today he had bank accounts in fictitious names, but refused to say whether he had used other peoples' names in bona fide share transactions…

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Court Told Worker Threatened

Northern Star · Friday 20 February 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Threats by union members to members of a rival union that they would be thrown in the…

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Lismore Theatres Star Court

Northern Star · Friday 20 February 1953 · page 3

"SATURDAY ISLAND": The technicolor comedy drama, "Saturday Island", opens tonight at the Star Court Theatre. The cast,…

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Former Minister Gaoled For Assault

Northern Star · Saturday 21 February 1953 · page 1

MAITLAND, Friday.—A former Baptist Church deacon was today sentenced by Judge O'Sullivan to two…

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Bail Allowedin Murder Charge

Northern Star · Saturday 21 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Burwood Coroner, Mr. Smythe, today. found that Robert Malcolm Walden, 18, press…

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Police Search Fails

Northern Star · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 4

A further search by Lismore police yesterday for the body of a man believed drowned in flood waters at Bexhill was…

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