Ballina Council Deadlock Reached Mayor Calls in Police
A deadlock in Ballina Municipal Council has held up all but routine business for more than three months…
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Courts & crime, 1942
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Police Fire On Indian Mobs Gandhi's Secretary Death During Detention
LONDON, Sat.--It was officially announced in Bombay that Gandhi's secretary, Mahader Desai, died while…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--A special statement issued by the heads of various Protestant churches in Sydney, condemning modern…
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A battered and water-stained poker machine was an exhibit in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday when Hunter Michael Quinn, 44, laborer, was…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.--Shortly after he had attempted to commit a criminal assault on the daughter of a farmer at Deer…
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At the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions, yesterday before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., Kelvin Herbert Thompson, 23 soldier for whom Mr. Colin…
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PERTH, Tues.--Thomas Robson, 39, soldier has been arrested and charged with, the wilful murder of James George Lowen, 27,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DETECTIVES Threatened With Firearms Allegation in Court
SYDNEY, Tues.--When two men were charged with breaking, entering and stealing at Redfern Court to-day it was alleged that…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--In the Quarter Sessions to-day Alfred Henry Singleton, 24, was sentenced to five years' gaol for assault and robbery, and a year…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Judgment was reserved in the High Court to-day in the appeal by Patrick Halger Sparre, 22, soldier, against the sentence of seven…
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Between 7 and 8 p.m. on Saturday there was Some excitement in Prince street, Grafton, when the police made a sudden…
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LONDON, Mon.--A Norwegian telegraph agency reports that an explosion at Oslo police station on Friday killed one Quisling…
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Considerable interest was evinced yesterday at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions, when Frank Dennis Piggott, 43, billiard-marker, was…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Seven miners from Mt. Keira colliery on the southern coalfields have been summoned under the National…
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AUCKLAND, Tues.--The belief is held in police circles that the brutal murder of two Salvation Army women, Brigadier…
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There was a further adjournment yesterday of the case in which Frank Denis Piggott, billiard-marker, appeared in the Grafton Court of Petty…
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BRISBANE, Thurs.--A police search which began on August 17 for the assailant of two women who reported they had been…
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BRISBANE, Thurs.--At a Queensland Coroner's inquest yesterday on Alfred William Robin, 17, it was stated that an American…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maclean Police Court Motor Traffic Breach
For failing to renew his motor lorry registration or return the number-plates within three days of the registration expiring, George Brown was fined…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.--Although suffering from a bullet wound, which ultimately proved fatal, Walter Alexander McMillan,…
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