Charge of Stealing From Rail Truck
An engine-driver, charged with stealing two bottles of Mine from a railway truck in Dubbo, had told police he…
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Courts & crime, 1954
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Hoad's Partner Enters For H'Court Title
Star Victorian girl tennis player, 19-years-old Jennifer Staley, will play in the NSW Hardcourt tennis titles in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Doctors, Chemist Charged with Fraudlent Claims Sydney
Prescriptions for patients who did not exist were alleged by the Crown to have been written by a doctor who, with another doctor and a chemist, were charged in the Special Court yesterday with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trial for Murder Follows Shooting in Hotel
The fatal shooting of a man in a Parkes Hotel bar on January 6 this year was a case of cold blooded, callous murder, said the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Ziems) in the Dubbo Criminal Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court of Inquiry Into Convoy Disaster Newcastle
An Army Court of Inquiry into yesterday's amphibious convoy disaster, will open to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Accused Weeps In Murder Trial From Dock Anderson Tells Tragic Story of Broken Home
A man charged with murder broke down and cried while he told a Dubbo Criminal Court jury how he had killed his wife's lover. He s Jack Anderson, of Wollongong, who is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Itinerant Sellers Licence Fee to be Charged
At last week’s meeting of the Coonabarabran Shire Council it was decided that a fee of 10/- should be…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dubbo Drink Waiter Awarded £114 Damages For Assault
A former drink waiter at the Royal Hotel told the Dubbo Supreme Court yesterday that a man whom he is suing for damages poured beer down his neck and then hit him with a chair…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Taxation Officer Charged With Accepting Bribe SYDNEY
A former Sydney man who was fined £100 last month for bribing a taxation officer was yesterday Crown witness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jury Fails to Agree in Murder Trail
A Criminal Court jury last night failed to agree in the Anderson murder trial after deliberating for seven hours,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Busy Week-end for Wellington Police
Wellington Police had a busy week-end with arrests for drunkenness and there were several minor accidents…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Justice Dovey To Inquire Into Alleged Police Bashing SYDNEY
Mr. Justice Dovey has been appointed to inquire into allegations by a Melbourne salesman that he had been bashed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police to Check Car Resales
Legislation compelling the registration of second-hand car dealers is being prepared and probably will be introduced at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Officer Guilty Of Maiming Mau Mau Prisoners Sentenced To 5 Yrs. Jail
NAIROBI (Kenya) Friday. The maiming of Mau Mau prisoners as related earlier by two Somali privates was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Claim Follows Fatal Accident
A man claimed damages in the Dubbo Supreme Court yesterday for injuries suffered in a road accident in which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mother Collapsed As She Prayed "Bring Him Back To Me" Six-day-old Baby Stolen From Hospital Crib Taken to Police Greatest Search In City's History Leads To Child's Safe Return
At about 1 o'clock the baby was handed in to Darlinghurst Police Station and reunited with the mother…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Immorality Graft Charged at Dartmoor London
A very high-level inquiry into graft, brutality and immorality allegations has been called for by Dartmoor Prison…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Policemen Refused Rank Of Police Sergeant MELBOURNE
The appeal of a senior policewoman against the promotion to sergeant of two policemen of less seniority has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Order
Messrs. Beveridge and Serisier write:—In an issue of your paper reporting February Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death for Murder Is Favoured
Americans, Britons and Australians agree that, the penalty for murder should be death. This is disclosed by…
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