To Die For Murder Of Three Daughters
LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).-- Hand in hand, William Park and his wife, Mary, stepped into the dock at Glasgow to be sentenced…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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High Court Appeal By Falstein, M.P.
CANBERRA, Thurs.--Mr. Falstein, M.P., announced to-day he would appeal to the High Court against his conviction on six…
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TAREE, Fri.--Clarence Henry French, 42, timber worker was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--In the Supreme Court to-day, a former P.O.W. in Japanese hands, claimed heavy damages from three police officers alleging malicious prosecutions, false imprisonment and assault. The man is John Clarence Shepherd, 30, of Lindfield,…
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Charles Frederick McAlpine, 23, postmaster of Glenreagh, appeared before the Coramba Court of Petty Sessions on Monday…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Two men awaiting a third trial on a charge of murder were allowed ball of £500 each by Mr. Justice Herron…
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Twenty-one police from the Grafton Police District attended the. South Grafton rifle range yesterday for instruction in the…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--A suit for damages against three policemen brought by John Clarence Shephard, 30, was settled to-day for…
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PERTH, Tues.--The President of the State Arbitration Court (Mr. Dunphy) to- day had a journalist attached to the…
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SYDNEY, Tues.--The Medical Superintendent of Callan Park Mental Hospital to-day told the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Car Sales. Demurrer Rejected By High Court
SYDNEY, Tues.--The High Court to-day rejected a demurrer entered by the Commonwealth, to the statemert of a claim by a car dealer, challenging the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.--Mr. Justice Herron told a youthful murderer whom he sentenced to death in the Central Criminal Court to-day that he had followed the "way of the gangster." Eric Thomas Turner, 20, labourer, of Liverpool, was found guilty…
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WASHINGTON, Thursday (A.A.P.).--The Solieltor-General of the United States (Mr. Philip B. Perlman) has asked…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--John Wilson, 58, father of 17 children, was sentenced at Balmain Sessions to-day to 12 months'…
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MELBOURNE. Fri.-- Found guilty of wounding with intent to murder, a youth was sentenced to death today by Mr. Justice…
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SYDNEY, Fri.--The Attorney-General (Mr. Martin) said to-day he had decided to send for trial, for a third time, Percy…
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Army Headquarters announces that the publicity which has been given to .the danger of the public retaining ammunition…
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Senior-Constable C. W. Marsh, officer in charge at Woolgoolga, has been admitted to the Coffs' Harbour District Hospital,…
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THE HAGUE, Sun. (A.A.P.).--Soon after the Dutch Government issued a Royal decree establishing an interim Federal Government in Indonesia it was announced that the Netherlands Government was taking "police action" in Indonesia against…
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George Stephen Kirk, motor mechanic, of Ryan street, South Grafton, was fined £5 at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…
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