3 Months' Gaol for Assault S.M.'s Reference To Gangster Methods SYDNEY
That the Commissioner of Police should investigate the whole matter as it macked of American gangster methods as depicted on the films, was…
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Courts & crime, 1940
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Brandished Knife at Girl Given Gaol For Three Months SYDNEY
WHEN Richard Hayes was charged at the Central Court with having had in his possession a knife, with intent feloniously to steal the…
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YARRAM, Saturday— Gorges in, the precipitous hill country of South Gippsland were scoured by Yarram, Toora and Foster police in their…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday—By a majority of three to two, the Full Court yesterday directed a new trial of the New South Wales Supreme…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Knight Had Debts of £1 MILLION Bankruptcy Court Proceedings
Sir Edward Oswald Every, Bart., company director, of Egginton Hall. Egginton, Derbyshire, whose liabilities totalled —1,049,017, said in the…
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SEX hundred police in plainclothes patrolled the West End of London last night after 12 people had been injured by I.R.A. bomb explosions…
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A small debts matter which has been before the Small Debts. Court since September 12 of last year was struck put today as settled. When…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Tuesday. — When a constable and a traffic inspector went to a motor car on the Te Aroha racecourse they found a…
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PARIS, February 27. — Roger Robbi, aged 16years, and Jean Courbe, aged 17 years, were charged before a military, court with having…
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Described by the magistrates as a menace to the community. James Mc-Millan, 26 years, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Great Britain At War For 6months New Illegalities of Enemy— Not War, Murder Allies' Growing Air Ascendancy (Special to "The Miner") LONDON, February 29
nON Sunday Great Britain will have been at war with Germany for six months. The first few days saw dramatic events on the sea and in the air, and it is in these two elements that in the intervening months the…
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A MAN who, on Thursday night, is alleged to have told the police that he was looking for a big black cat, yesterday appeared in the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Surrounding a house in Cathedral Street, City, early today detectives arrested a man in connection with the fatal shooting of…
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With the rotund and jovial Rex ("Wacka")' Dawe as the presiding Judge Shutone, 2BH listeners will on Saturday night hear the screwiest…
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A NOMINAL fine of 2/- with 8/- costs was imposed on a 90-year-old man who appeared before Mr.A. B. Collins, S.M., in,the Police Court today. He was charged with failing to keep his premises clean. It was stated…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Loslie Ernest Kennedy (27), clerk and Leslie John Garrod (31) were charged at the Central Police Court today with…
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lt is understood that legislation is unlikely to be introduced by the State Government granting the police absolute, instead of limited, privilege…
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On Saturday night at 8.15 presentation of one of the most uproarious radio sessions ever presented will be heard through 2BH…
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TWO soldiers who engaged a taxi in the city late last night are alleged to have knocked the driver unconscious at Fairfield, bound his…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The secretary of the Police Association (Mr. C. J. Cosgrove) alleges that police officers are being transferred to different…
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