Police Puzzled By Slashing Of Picture
CANBERRA, Friday.--Police and Parliamentary officials are mystified over the slashing of a portrait of the…
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Courts & crime, 1954
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Store Intruder Armed Police Search
SYDNEY, Sunday. -- More than 40 police with drawn revolvers were searching…
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SYDNEY, Sunday. -- A 54-year-old justice of the peace found dead near his home last night was asphyxiated, a…
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Following his ruling that he was satisfied there was a lack of proper are, Mr. J. R. Scarlett, S.M., convicted a Kyogle youth on a negligent [?]riving charge said to have been committed on the Kyogle-Woodenbong [?]ad on December 13 last year…
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SYDNEY, Monday. -- A man charged with attempting to murder him had threatened to "cut his throat, put the razor in his hand and make it look like suicide," a packer alleged in Central…
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Despite one of Lismore's most intensive manhunts, William Nolan, who escaped from the Lismore lock-up on Sunday night, was still at large early this morning…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--An immediate judicial inquiry into allegations by a Melbourne man that police had assaulted him was directed today by the Premier, Mr. Cahill…
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SYDNER, Tuesday.--A man alleged to have stolen 24 bales of wool valued at £2650, was committed for trial at…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.-- The husband of a woman dying of tuberculosis was sentenced to two and a half years' gaol…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A panel of four officers of a Court of Inquiry convened to take evidence and report…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The Premier, Mr. Cahill, announced today that Mr. Justice Dovey would preside over the judicial inquiry into allegations concerning an assault made on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Q'ld. Police Alerted in Search for Lismore Escapee
Queensland police have been alerted in the search for Victorian criminal William Nolan. Lismore police have extended their cordon round…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.--A Royal Commission into allegations by David Edward Studley- Ruxton that police assaulted him will open on Monday. The Executive Council will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Recover Missing Baby Woman Charged
SYDNEY, Friday.--Seven days old Garry John Costello, who was taken from his crib at St. Margaret's Hospital, Darlinghurst, yesterday was recovered by police near Circular Quay today. Detectives intercepted a woman carrying…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--A woman, charged with abducting an eight-day-old baby from St. Margaret's Hospital,…
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"THE LAST POSSE."--Concluding at tonight's screening at the Star Court, the main attraction will be "The Last Posse",…
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LONDON, Sunday (AAP-Reuter).--The Queen planned to move her court from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle, the London newspaper "The People," said today. Windsor Castle, which is…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--A young resident doctor of Townsville Hospital was charged in Townsville Police…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--The Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission adjourned today after a short sitting until next Monday, when the Royal Commissioner, Mr. Justice Dovey, will begin hearing evidence. The State Government set…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--Officials of the Premier's Department are examining a statutory…
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