Death Sentence Commuted, But Court Order Defied
Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 1
BRISBANE, Wed.—Yesterday Judge Brennan issued an order for a pigeon, which was visiting the court room, to be shot, but agreed to rescind the order if the bird was removed. The pigeon was removed, but to-day defied the ejectment order, and put in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Theft Of Cattle
Daily Examiner · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 2
William George Robertson, 32, farmer, appeared in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr J. B. Hodgson, J.P., yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Child Shot Dead: Uncle Charged
Daily Examiner · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thurs.—As a sequel to the death of Janice Coyle, aged seven years, from a pea-rifle bullet wound received at her…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Intervention By Court
Daily Examiner · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 3
NEW ORLEANS (U.S.A.), Thurs.—The Louisiana Supreme Court declined to intervene in a second attempt to electrocute a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Court Cancels Union Registration
Daily Examiner · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 1
BRISBANE, Thurs.—Registration of the Queensland branch of the Australian Meat Industry Employees' Union was cancelled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nazis Charged With Murder Of Unarmed Soldiers
Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 May 1946 · page 1
DACHAU, Friday.—The third major war crimes trial opened when Colonel-General Sepp Dietech, S.S. Generals Fritz…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol Sentences
Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 May 1946 · page 1
BRUSSELS, Fri.—Jean Grauls, Burgomaster of Brussels throughout the occupation, was sentenced to five years by a court-martial…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Theft Of £900
Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 May 1946 · page 1
SYDNEY, Fri.—Clifford Robert Hagen (45) was remanded in the Central Court to-day on a charge of having stolen £900 from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder Of Aborigine Started Tribal War
Daily Examiner · Monday 20 May 1946 · page 3
DARWIN, Sun.—The Cape Stewart Methodist missionary, Rev. Ellemore, who has just arrived at Darwin by lugger, brought news of the murder of an aborigine which started a tribal war. He said an aborigine,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bicycle Stealing Prevalent At Lismore
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 3
LISMORE, Mon.—During the hearing of a charge at the Lismore Court to-day against Hilton Douglas Murray, 27[?] of 183 Union…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hearing Of Stealing Charge Postponed
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 4
When the case in which William George Robertson was charged with stealing at Trenayr five cows and two calves…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →His Last Chance, Says Magistrate
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 4
The Police Magistrate, Mr. G. L. Berry, at Grafton Police Court yesterday, said there was a limit to the number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Dog Dead
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 1
SYDNEY, Mon.—The famous police dog, the Alsatian Zoe, died to-night in Alexandria police kennels. She was 11 years old, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arrests For Murder Of Australian Crimes Investigators
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 1
BATAVIA, Mon.—Two Japanese and three Indonesians who were arrested by the Indonesian Republican People's Army,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Found Dice Game In Progress
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 1
SYDNEY, Mon.—When police raided premises in Sydney road, Manly, on Friday night they found a dice game known as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Pay For Time Lost By Police
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 1
SYDNEY, Mon.—Walter John Cooper (24) was ordered to pay £24 compensation to the Crown, for time lost by police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Instrument Left in Patient's Abdomen Police Allege
Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 3
BRISBANE, Mon.—Police alleged in the Corner's Court to-day that a surgical instrument was found in the abdomen of a women two months after an operation and that she died after a second operation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charged With Conspiracy
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 May 1946 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tues.—Two of the accused in the case in which five persons had been charged with conspiracy to pervert the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Convicts Killed During Gaol Riot
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 May 1946 · page 1
QUETTA, Tues.—Twenty-eight convicts were killed and several injured when the authorities at the Central Gaol at Mach, 30 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Criticism Of Police Boys' Club
Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 May 1946 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Objections to the way in which the Police Boys' Club was administered were raised in the Presbyterian…
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