Police Allegation Criminal Assault Failed, So Girl Murdered
BRISBANE, Mon.—The failure of a man to commit a criminal assault led to his murdering a girl, it was alleged, in…
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Courts & crime, 1947
799 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 40
Magistrate Voices His Difficulty In Tenancy Cases
During the course of the hearing of a case under the Landlord and 'Tenants' Act at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…
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ADELAIDE, Mon.—The decomposed bodies of eight babies, some of whom are believed to have been dead 9 months, were found…
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BRISBANE, Tues.—A police interview with Brown was described by Detective Sergeant Stewart Kerr to-day at…
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WARSAW, Tues.—The People's Court sentenced to death Ludwig Fischer, former Governor of Warsaw, who was alleged to be…
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DUBBO, Tues.—At the Quarter Sessions to-day, two years' imprisonment was imposed on Roy Governor brother of the…
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LONDON, Tues.—The House of Commons has intervened dramatically to save five Gold Coast natives, found guilty of ritualistic murder, on the eve of their…
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BRISBANE, Wed.—In the Criminal Court to-day, the case was continued in which Reginald Windfield Spence Brown,…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.—A former secretary of the Australian Natives' Association, John Saunders Parker (45), of Glen Iris…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.— The Full Bench of the Arbitration Court this afternoon confirmed a decision to hear the 40-hour…
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MACLEAN, Wed.—In the Maclean Police Court to-day Richard Cedric Ellem, a youth of Yamba, pleaded guilty to a charge of…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.—The body of Chan Kwan 31, one of the two Chinese charged with the murder of Yeung Shing, 50, bosun of…
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WASHINGTON, Friday.—The Supreme Court upheld contempt of court convictions against John L. Lewis and the United Mineworkers but ordered the 3.500,000 dollar fine against the union to be reduced to 700,000 dollars. The fine of 10,000 dollars against…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—While Good Idea is favourite for the Denham Court Handicap, at Randwick to-morrow, Wellington, Earl…
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BRISBANE, Mon.—The trial of Reginald Spence Brown. 49, accountant, on a charge of having murdered Bronia Mary…
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NICOSIA (Cyprus), Mon.—A British court-martial sentenced Gunner Hall-Longmire to 28 days' detention because he sent a letter…
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BRISBANE, Tues.—Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown, 49, accountant, was to-day sentenced to life imprisonment…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.— The Chinese fruiterer who committed suicide at Pentridge Gaol, was the murderer of Yeung Shing,…
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LONDON, Wed.—Five of the 10 boys charged with having murdered an assistant master at Standon Farm Approved School…
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PEORIA (Illinois), Wed.—Police believe that the murderer of George P. McNear, president of the Toledo…
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