Insanity Plea: Not Guilty of Wife's Murder
SYDNEY, Monday.--A 56-year-old public servant who strangled his wife with a sash cord in their Coogee flat, was…
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Courts & crime, 1954
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Papers Cited For Contempt Sequel to Alleged Assaults by Police
SYDNEY, Monday.--The Full Supreme Court today cited the publishers and editors of the Sydney Morning Herald and Daily Telegraph for contempt of court. A Sydney solicitor was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.-- A prisoner from Bathurst Gaol was charged at Darlinghurst Criminal Court today with having maliciously wounded another prisoner with intent to murder. Twenty other prisoners…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. --Murray Smith, 38, of Beaconsfield Parade, Albert Park, was committed for…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- A former industrial diamond company manager told the Criminal Court…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- The Seamen's Union told Mr. Justice Foster in the Arbitration Court today that it would not undertake to abide by any decision he might make in the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- A Bathurst Gaol prisoner told the Quarter Sessions today he would not answer a question because it might place him in jeopardy among other prisoners. He had been asked if he…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- A woman ran screaming and crying from Central Criminal Court toddy while waiting for the jury's decision in her son's murder trial. The woman. Mrs. Ellen…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- Allegations that a young mother had placed her two-months-old son on a bed and…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- Detectives now believe a 52-year-old seaman found strangled on his bed in a Woollahra…
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CASINO, Wednesday. -- Following an accident in which his vehicle struck two guide posts at a bend in Lismore…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. -- It appeared as though christians were still thrown to the lions, Mr. justice Kirby said in the Arbitration Court today…
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CASINO, Thursday.--Two youths were acquitted on charges of assault and stealing by Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M.,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.-- A barrister in the Quarter Sessions today claimed police had obtained a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.--A 52-year-old commercial artist in Central Court today claimed he was ill-treated and bashed by police after his arrest on February 18. He told the court he was…
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SYDNEY, Friday. -- Alan Pierpoint Rigby told Central Court today that a constable punched him across the nose three times in a cell at Phillip Street Police Station. The blows made his nose…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Friday. -- A number of assault charges in which the complainant was John Pippos, of Mullumbimby…
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SYDNEY, Friday. -- A Central Criminal Court jury today acquitted a 19-year-old youth of the murder of his father, without hearing addresses by counsel or summing up by the judge…
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SAIGON, Sunday (AAP-Reuter).—Non-stop French air assaults on the Vietminh artillery positions and supply lines near Dien Bien Phu have delayed the rebel offensive on the besieged mountain fortress…
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ROME, Sunday (AAP).—Anna Maria Moneta Caglio, star witness at Rome's "drug orgy" trial, yesterday accused Piero Piccioni, son of the Italian Foreign Minister, Attilio Piccioni, of…
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