12 On Wool Theft Charge
SYDNEY, Monday. --Charged with theft and of receiving large quantities of wool in June and July, 1952, and November, 1953, twelve men appeared at, Central Court today. Police Prosecutor Sgt. R…
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Courts & crime, 1954
717 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 3 of 36
Man Gaoled for Theft of Yacht
SYDNEY, Monday. --A labourer, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to a year's gaol at Burwood Court for…
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SYDNEY, Monday. --C.I.B. detectives are investigating the mystery poisoning of a 31-year-old married woman…
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SYDNEY, Monday. -- A former C.I.B. car driver would reveal only to a Royal Commission names of police who allegedly accepted bribes from a two-up school, the driver's wife said…
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BRISBANE, Monday, --Charged with attempting to rob a woman while armed with a home-made pistol last…
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KYOGLE, Tuesday.--At Kyogle Court of Petty Sessions today, Ronald Alfred Presbury, of Kyogle, was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday--The following promotions of constables first class to senior constables in the Police Force have been…
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LONDON, Wednesday-- Two British book publishers at the Old Bailey yesterday were gaoled for six months for…
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CASINO, Wednesday.-- A Brisbane man was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in Casino Court of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.-- Mrs. Ethel Butler, told the City Coroner's Court today she did not leave her home after 9 o'clock on the night her daughter Shirley was murdered. Earlier, two witnesses…
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A Brisbane motor cyclist was fined a total of £9 plus £116- costs on three charges of breaches of the Traffic Act in the Lismore Court of Petty Sessions by Mr. J. R. Scarlett, S.M…
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CASINO, Wednesday.-- A man who in a drunken orgy threatened his wife with a shotgun and blew a hole in…
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At Kyogle Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday Ronald Alfred Presbury, of Kyogle, was committed to the Lismore Quarter Sessions on April 5 next for trial on the charge of…
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Three policemen who were born and brought up in the Kyogle district received promotions on…
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A 43-year-old assistant Stock Inspector, Cedric John Vidler, of Glen Tick Gate via Woodenbong, was fined £5 in Urbenville Court of Petty Sessions when he was convicted of inciting another man to assault a…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. -- Police today continued their search of the waterfront at Tama[?]ama for the body of Charles…
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BRISBANE, Sunday. -- Two men menaced detectives with rifles and escaped after a stolen car they were driving crashed into a post at Greenslopes today…
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A 43-year-old Assistant Stock Inspector, Cedric John Vidler, of Glen Tick Gate, via Woodenbong, was fined £5 in Urbenville Court of Petty Sessions when he…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--A solicitor was remanded in Central Court today on a charge of having failed to account…
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A submission by Mr. D. J. Kissane that an error in judgment and not negligence had caused an…
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