Bridges Freed By US Court New York
The United 'States Supreme Court freed Australian-born Harry Bridges of his 1950 conviction for perjury and…
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Courts & crime, 1953
293 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 9 of 15
Serious Assault Heavy Expenses Incurred
A case which has been mentioned for several months past at the Gilgandra Police Court was heard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wellington Police Alerted
Wellington and other Western Police stations have been alerted to watch for a man wanted for questioning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Claims Police Untruthful Guilty; Goods in Custody Charge
Allen John Swords of Mudgee a wheat carter was fined £10 in Coonabarabran Court of Petty…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Bourke Police Court Three Defendants Convicted for Stealing
At the Bourke Court House on Tuesday morning last before local Justices, three defendants were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Respite For Atom Spies: Full Court Adjourns WASHINGTON
Atom spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, scheduled to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing last night (2 pm today,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Battle for Baby Boy Enters 3rd. Round Sydney
A legal battle by a mother and a foster mother for the custody of a child has begun in the Equity Court, where Mrs. Gloria Amy Mace, of Terrigal Road, Erina, and her husband, are seeking the right…
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A man who stole an overcoat, a blanket, a knife, a dessertspoon and some groceries appeared in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Indonesian Gaoled on Assault Charge
An Indonesian was sentenced to a month's hard labour when he pleaded guilty in the Wellington Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday to punching a man aged 74 years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Australian Charged With Attempted Suicide Defendant Remanded to Orange Metal Hospital for Psychiatric Treatment
In the Wellington Lunacy Court on Saturday morning a young New Australian was charged with attempting to commit suicide in a Swift Street residential last Tuesday. The defendant, Joseph Kieltyka (27), was remanded to Orange Mental…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assault Charge Against Woman Is Dismissed
Rita Florence Miller, of Hampton Street, Dubbo, was charged at the last Dubbo Court with havin assaulted Alexander…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →'House of Murder' and Charge of Strangling Wife London
An unusual defence move marked the opening day of the trial of John Reginald Halliday Christie, middle-aged clerk at the Old Bailey yesterday, on a charge of having strangled his wife Ethel at their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mother Hysterical in Court Battle for Child Sydney
The cross-examination of Miss Joan Murray, who is opposing an application by Mrs. Gloria Amy Mace for the legal adoption of Miss Murray's son was continued yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →They Walked From Court Arm In Arm SYDNEY
A woman who is alleged to have put Thallrat in her husband's tea to "give him a headache" was committed for trial in Central Court. Mrs. Beryl Joyce Hague ,35, of Marion Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police to Check Vandals Shire Engineer Quotes Damage
Attending the meeting of the Coonabarabran Shire Council last week to discuss parking [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Licensing Court
At the Licensing Court on Tuesday last the following transfers of hotel licences were approved of by Mr. F. Spence,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dubbo Court
Dubbo Court did not sit to-day because Mr. Spence, SM, was in Brewarrina. A few formal matters were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Christie Will Be Hanged for Murder of Wife London
John Reginald Halliday Christie, 55, self-confessed strangler of seven women, was sentenced to death in London's Old Bailey after a jury of nine men and three women rejected his counsel's plea of insanity…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Take to the Air New York
Police took to the air to-day to patrol New York City in helicopters. They will concentrate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police and Firemen Stace Another Successful Ball
The Police and Firemen's ball at the Narromine Town Hall last Friday night was an unqualified social and financial…
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