Police Chief Summoned to Inquiry
SYDNEY, Monday. -- The Police Commissioner, Mr. C. J. Delaney, has been subpoenaed to appear and produce certain documents before the Crown Employees' Appeals Board,…
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Courts & crime, 1954
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Daring Gaol Break
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- Sawing through a steel bar in their cell window and using knotted blankets to lower themselves 15 feet to the roof of an outbuilding, two 19-year-old convicts escaped from the Bendigo gaol during the night…
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Inspector F. Swift, police officer in charge of the Lismore sub-district, has been transferred to the…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.-- A move to call fresh evidence in the Ferguson murder trial, was made in the Court…
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PARKES, Wednesday.--The Forbes District Coroner, Mr. G. Locke, C.P.S., today committed Jack Anderson, 33, for trial on a charge of having murdered John Noel Winley…
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CASINO, Wednesday. --A Casino solicitor said in the Court of Petty Sessions today that the demeanour of a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The Crown Employees' Appeal Board today upheld the appeals of two detective sergeants against fines imposed on them by the Police…
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CASINO, Wednesday. -- A motor cyclist who was involved in an accident on the Lismore road told a police…
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CASINO, Thursday.--A Dobie's Bight farmer said in Casino Court today that three men he had disturbed robbing…
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CASINO, Thursday. -- A Casino solicitor claimed in the Court of Petty Sessions today that a woman charged on…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--A woman was sentenced to gaol for six years by Judge Holden in Darlinghurst…
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MELBOURNE. Friday. -- Three armed hold-up men were each sentenced in the Criminal Court today to…
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I spent five hours with a flood rescue party breaking into homes and bringing occupants to dry ground on Saturday night. Stationed at the Lismore Police station, I watched the Lismore Police working at fever…
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Lismore's 25 police officers were faced with a marathon organising feat on. Saturday night when the floodwaters reached serious proportions…
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SYDNEY, Friday. -- The Commissioner for Police, Mr. C. J. Delaney, has announced the following additional promotion…
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An improved system of flood warnings in the Richmond district was an urgent need, said the member for Casino, Mr. I. L. Robinson, in Lismore yesterday…
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CAIRO, Monday (AAP). -- Troops and police last night fired into marching demonstrators boisterously acclaiming General Naguib's return as President…
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A team of policemen will begin today to investigate flood damage claims made by Lismore residents…
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For stealing a bottle of cordial valued at 36, Russell Armstrong, of Lismore, was fined £5 by Mr. J. R. Scarlett,…
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NAIROBI, Friday (AAP).--Troops and police were alerted in Nairobi today to guard against possible…
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