Two Men Gaoled for Assault
SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Edward Saunders (33) and James Carey (32) wore sentenced at the Darlinghurst sessions to two years and 15 months…
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Courts & crime, 1942
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Woman For Ttial; Alleged Murder
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The City Coroner (Mr. Oram) committed Mrs. Catherine Mary Thompson (41). domestic, for trial on a charge of…
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Police officers at the Central Police Station have a big task ahead of them. They are preparing a list of stolen bicycles or machines reported…
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A FINDING of murder by a person or persons unknown was returned by the Acting City Coroner (Mr. Ziesing, S.M.) at the conclusion of the inquest into the death of Augustine Phillip Godfrey, 57-year-old war…
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THE victim of an assault received compensation of £35 for his injuries when the case came un in the Police Court today before Mr. Austin, deputy S.M. John Joseph Jackson (27), miner,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Eric Reginald May (31) was sentenced to four years' imprisonment at the Darlinghurst Sessions yesterday, when he…
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WALLAROO, Wednesday.—Hugh Sloan Kendall (55), laborer, of Price, was committed for trial on a charge of murder, at the conclusion of an…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday.—A close check was kept by police on any illegal betting today, the first Saturday on which the racing and betting ban…
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IN the Small Debts Court today there were three defendants—two men with 10 children between them, and a Russian cobbler…
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PAT HOARE, who used to demostrate his pugilist[?] talents at the Quadrangle in the palmy days of local boxing, told Mr…
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BRIGHT moonlight illuminated blacked-out streets. Outside a wine saloon a tall thin man picked up something, raised his arm—and fragments of glass cascaded from the windows…
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ALICE SPRINGS, Tuesday.—The gaol here now serves to keep intruders out instead of prisoners in It has been taken over by the Darwin…
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LONDON, March 9.—An Ankara message says that the cordon thrown round thc Russian Embassy in Istanbul was lifted late yesterday afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— After police had told him that a city building that was showing 19 lights in a blackout was padlocked, and that they…
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PERTH, Thursday.—Harry Alfred Jackson was sentenced to four years imprisonment with hard labor by the Chief Justice (Sir John Northmore)…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Bernard MuDade, who is charged with the murder of William Malcolm McLean, is alleged to have told the police that…
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LONDON, March 12.—Three women —the mother of a murderer and the mothers of two little girls he killed— kissed outside the Old Bailey today…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — A tour last night and early this morning of Sydney night clubs and sly grog premises by members of the special…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—It is learned that the N.S.W. Commissioner for Police (Mr. W. J. Mackay) has been appointed to an important…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—There is righteous indignation in the Ballarat Gaol. When the prisoners marched out to tend their vegetable plots they…
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