9-Year-old Boy Acquitted on Murder Charge
MELBOURNE, Thurs.--A nine-year-old boy, Geoffrey Charles Clay, pleaded not guilty in the Melbourne Criminal Court to-day,…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Woman Charged With Murder Of Her Husband
BURNIE (Tasmania), Fri.--Ivy May Stokes (22), of Redpa, mother of two children, was arrested this morning and…
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CANBERRA, Fri.--The law was undeniably on the side of the Government in the action it had taken,the Minister for…
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MELBOURNE, Fri --At Templestowe, near Heidelberg, this morning, two men, Harry Niicholls (42), taxi driver, of Ross street…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--Delivering judgment in the High Court today, in the case in which Henry Edward Watson, of East Kew…
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SYDNEY, Sun.--Two thousand potties of beer were seized by the police in raids on flats in fashionable eastern suburbs areas last…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Sentence was deferred for three hours by Judge Kirby in the Quarter Sessions to-day, because of the…
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Two youths, who were alleged to have been incited by an older person to commit a crime, were released on a bond…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--A 16 years old station hand, Walter Eric Graham, charged with the murder of his employer, an Assyrian station…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--The validity of the Special Federal Court presided over by Mr. Atkinson, S.M., was challenged in the Full Court…
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At Grafton Quarter Sessions Court yesterday, Judge Storkey, V.C., sentenced Kelvin Thomas Curnow, of Maclean…
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The following District Court matters were heard by his Honor, Judge Storkey, V.C., at Grafton on Wednesday and Thursday:--…
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LONDON, Mon.--According to Moscow radio a Polish Court at Lublin has sentenced to death five German war criminals found…
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LONDON, Tues. -- The World's Evangelical Alliance alleges that General Franco's regime is persecuting even…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--The commercial travellers will not run cars, and settlers in hundreds of remote villages will be denied…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--William John Hugh Foye, 19, was found guilty in the Central Criminal Court 10- day of murdering Doris Winifred…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--Appalling losses of railway property through, theft--from 1938 to 194[?] they amounted to £300,000--…
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BRISBANE Wed--A merchant seaman from Cairns who signed on a Norwegian ship yesterday, was charged to-day with killing…
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SYDNEY, Thurs. -- Desmond Maxwell Jones, 16, and Thoral Neville Jones, 15, were charged at the Central Criminal Court…
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LOS ANGELES, Fri.--Judge Crum yesterday dismissed assault charges against Tommy Dorsey, his wife, Pat Dane, and a…
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