Students Police Clash
BAGHDAD, Thurs. (A.A.P.)-- Seven were killed and many injured when students clashed with police in an attempt to break a…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Police Commissioner Collapses, Dies
SYDNEY, Thurs.--The New South Wales Commissioner of Police, Mr. William John Mackay, collapsed and died…
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DUBLIN, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--In a running gunfight between police, troops and three gunmen, Sean Gantley, Chief…
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LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).--A 34-year-oId Russian woman, Valentine Melmikova, has been sentenced to two years improvement on a charge of selling at speculative prices dress material imported from Britain reports Reuter's Moscow…
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When Bernhard Fahey, 39, labourer, complained he had lost a pound note, he started to abuse the licensee of the Commercial Hotel,…
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SYDNEY, Fri-- A man charged with rape was attacked by another man while being take to the cells at the Campsite…
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GUNNEDAH, Fri.--Police have seized all stocks of medicine at Gunnedah Hospital, following the death from strychnine poisoning…
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WEST WYALONG, Sun.-- Committing Lloyd Fleming (39), farmhand, for trial to the Central Criminal Court Sydney on a…
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SYDNEY, Monday.--Arrested near Waterfall to-day after an intense man hunt, 21-year-old railway employee, George…
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Edward Denis Doolan. (23). labourer, a stranger to the district, was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour by the Stipendiary…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--State Cabinet, at its meeting on Wednesday, is expected to consider the appointment of a successor to the late…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.--The defence counsel alleged in the City court to-day that 18-year-old twins accused of raping a 21-year-old nurse early on Saturday hod been tortured by police. He claimed that a constable…
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Before Mr. J. Emery, JP, in Coffs Police Court on Saturday morning four defendants were convicted and fined for offensive behaviour, and…
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SYDNEY, .Tues. -- At Central Court to-day, George Paul Bechtold (21), railway employee, was remanded until February 4 on a…
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Earl Craft, 47, timber-worker, appeared in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a charge of having stolen a…
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ADELAIDE, Wed.--Adelaide, police fired eight shots at a stolen car driven by an asylum escapee in a thrilling 50 m.p.h…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday--A decision in the Nymboida coal test case will be given to-morrow, Mining Warden Cocks, S.M., indicated at the Redfern Court to-day. Mr. Hungerford, for…
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"You are not only a thief, but a rogue," said the Stipendiary Magistrate (Mr. M. J. D. Austin), at Grafton Court of…
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MACLEAN.--At the Maclean Court of Petty Session. Vincet Dwarte was charged with having been found drunk in River street,…
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AUCKLAND, N.Z. (A.A.P.-Reuter), Sunday.--All available police were rushed to Auckland prison to-day to assist quell a serious disturbance. For more than five hours screams, yells and sound of breaking glass issued over prison walls in what nearby…
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