Medical Man Charged With Attempt To Murder Baby Daughter And Suicide SYDNEY
A Macquarie-Street specialist Dr. Robert Alexander de Castro Basto, unhappily married, had attempted to murder his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1954
391 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 5 of 20
Nearly Got Jail for Assault
"This is a very serious assault and it could have had more serious consequences," Mr. Spence SM told a man at,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Told Deliberate Lies To Royal Commission Salesman Charged Police with Gross Brutalities Sydney
"I have been lying—deliberately lying at this Commission," a salesman confessed at the Royal Commission yesterday inquiring into his charges that he had been violently, and! repeatedly, beaten…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Supreme Court Ends Sessions
The Dubbo Supreme Court list was completed yesterday and Mr. Justice Myers adjourned the court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Paper Paying Counsel for Studley-ruxton, Court Told Solicitor in the Box at Inquiry on "Police Brutality" Sydney
A daily newspaper is paying the expenses of Counsel appearing for David Studley-Ruxton, the Royal Commission inquiring into allegations of brutality by the police, was told yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Funeral of Former Magistrate
The funeral of Mr. Reginald Gordon Cookson, former Stipendiary Magistrate in the West, took…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dr. Basto Sentenced to Death Sydney
A Central Criminal Court jury yesterday found Dr. Robert Alexander dc Castro Basto, 56, guilty of a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Higher Fines Sought for Sheep Stealing Sydney
Sheep stealing was being encouraged because only light fines were imposed on those caught, a Cootamundra…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bourke Police Court
Before Mr. F. Spence, Stipendiary Magistrate, at Bourke Court House on Tuesday last the usual…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mystery Of Theft From Goods Trains Solved £2000 of Pillaged Goods Found in a Secret Room Sydney
Detectives last night found £2000 worth of goods pillaged from trains, in a secret room in a South Kempsey house. A sliding panel behind a wardrobe led into the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ruxton Like Car Smash Victim, Court Told SYDNEY
Studley-Ruxton was unshaven, dirty and dishevelled and looked as though he had been in a car accident, his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charge of Stealing Baby From Hospital Sydney
A woman, charged with abducting a baby from St. Margaret's Hospital was still suffering from hysteria, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sequel To Murder In A Mail Train Police State Man Confessed He Shot Scientist Sydney
As the sequel to the shooting of a CSIRO scientist in the South-West mail train on February 20, a man charged with murder appeared in custody at the City Coroner's Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Royal Commission Six Police Identified In Line-Ups SYDNEY
From seven identification line-ups yesterday David Studley-Ruxton picked out six policemen who he alleges…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?] Fined at Police Court
A lengthy list of cases, held over from previous courts awaited Mr. F. Spance, [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Had 40 Scotch [?]," Court Told
A man who drove to the Peak Hill police station to inquire about another man appeared to be unsteady on his feet,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Should Purge Police Who Betray Trust SYDNEY
There is no place in the police force fur anyone who brought discredit on it, and those who betrayed their trust should be purged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Men Charged with Theft of Wool
Police investigations into the theft of wool from stations throughout the West during the past…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Man She Lived with Hated Babies But She Loved Them" Evidence of Police in Baby Abduction Charge Sydney
A woman who had told police that she loved babies and had kept the clothes made for a child she lost six years ago, was yesterday committed for trial on a charge of abducting a six-days-old baby…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Assn. T.o Jion Labor Cl. SYDNEY
The Police Association decided yesterday to join the Labor Council. The vote was 37 to 11…
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