Police Fear Firebug at Wool Stores
SYDNEY. Thurs. -- Kerosene was poured into a hollow under the door of a five- storey wool stores at Ultimo last night, and…
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Courts & crime, 1946
773 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 28 of 39
Woman Charged With Theft
SYDNEY, Sun.--Detectives investigating the theft of a safe containing more than £1000 from a house in Swansea, Newcastle, on…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.--A bloodstained axe with the handle freshly broken, was discovered near the back door of a house at…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--A 22-years-old man, who escaped in handcuffs from a police car after the brawl at Wynyard Railway Station on…
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MILAN, Mon.--Two monks, Fathers Zucca and Parini, who were arrested on August 12, and charged with the theft of…
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Oliver Keith Fuller pleaded not guilty in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday to a charge of having stolen a watch,…
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A plain clothes detective will shortly take up duty at Murwillumbah, for crime investigation work. He is Detective Constable…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--A daring theft was carried out by a thug in Martin Place to-day. A young woman, Miss Doyle,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Detectives and a 17-year-old gunman clashed in a gun-fight in a scrub-covered gully near Bexley this afternoon. From dense scrub a youth exchanged fire with detectives at…
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Concern was expressed by members of the Clarence branch of the Graziers' Association yesterday at the number of missing…
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WHEN police found the decomposed [?] man, in the Murrumbidgee. River, identification seemed hopeless because the body had been in the water for three months. Detective Sergeant Ramus, of Sydney, removed the skin from…
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SYDNEY, Wed.--A 16 years old boy appeared in the Kogarah Court to-day, handcuffed to two detectives, when 16 charges were…
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PITTSBURGH, Wednesday.-- George Mueller, president of the Power Workers' Union, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment…
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AMSTERDAM, Wednesday.--A number of wounded civilians was admitted to hospital after the police had opened fire several times on crowds in Amsterdam, protesting against the sending of Dutch troops to Indonesia…
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The Youth Campaign Committee regret that it will not be possible for the Police Museum to visit the various centres around…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.--Evidence that a man had confessed to killing his wife and had then asked for some strychnine, was…
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MACLEAN, Thurs.--William Arthur Cotton, 19), Lawrence, was sentenced to three months' hard labour by Mr. G. L. Berry,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.--Police alleged in the Newtown Court to-day that two masked and armed men and held up a shopkeeper and his wife at Surry Hills last night, but had been arrested after the car in which they made their getaway had been seen at…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.--Charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having maliciously set fire to a mercer shop in George street…
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The aftermath to a grass fire on July 4th last, which destroyed 40-50 acres of grass land and nearly consumed a dwelling was…
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