Police Raid Premises
SYDNEY, Saturday.—Following closely upon a statement by the Premier (Mr. McKell) that 11 Sydney [?] clubs and slygrog shops had…
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Courts & crime, 1942
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Dispute Over 2/- Alleged; Murder Charge
BRISBANE, Saturday.—An argument over 2/- led to the killing of Harold Patrick Gillies, 46, at a South Brisbane hotel on February 16, it was…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The conduct of a case by the police wireless patrol was described by Judge Richardson in General Sessions as "one…
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LONDON, March 15.—A spokesman of Jehovah's Witnesses today disclosed that 196 British-born members of the organisation, of whom five are…
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LONDON, March 15.—When Aircraftman Gordon Frederick Cummins (26) was again at Bow Street Court today on three charges of having…
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BOMBAY, March 15.—Eight were killed and 20 seriously injured when police fired on strikers attempting to wreck a Madras cotton mill…
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Inquiries by police officers into the accident on the Stephens Creek road on Sunday and in which four people were injured have revealed that after…
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Police officers are seeking any person who can identify the driver of a motor vehicle which it is alleged failed to stop after it had collided with…
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A 43-YEAR-OLD Wingfield laborer was charged in the Port Adelaide Police Court with having assaulted his brother-in-law, who, police…
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NEW YORK, March 23.—Lucy Boehmler, 18-year-old German spy, who confessed and was the Government's star witness in the recent trial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gas Producer Unit for Police Car
A gas producer unit is to be fitted to the Travelling Police Station operated by Constable J. Buck from Wilcannia. This will enable him to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.— Frank Burns, laborer, of Young Street, Annandale, and Bonnie Patricia Burns, were committed for trial at the…
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LONDON, March 24.—For the benefit of Lady Cynthia Mosley and other women internees, a fashion show was held in Holloway Gaol (London)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beer Shortage Reminder Police Court Story; Charges Of Drunkenness
REFERENCE to the beer shortage was made in the Police Court to-day, by Mr. M. J. D. Austin, J.P., when hearing two charges of…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.—The police reconstruction of the tragedy behind the discovery of two bodies in a parked motor car at Lake…
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At the Wilcannia Police Court last Friday, before Mr. Austen, P.M. Laurence Brown was fined £10 with £4 18—Costs on a chance of falling to supply goods to…
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NEW DELHI, March 27.—Dr. N. G. Ranga, a former president of the All-India Peasants' Conference, who has been released after two years in…
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ADELAIDE, Saturday. — John Joseph Nykiel (73), of Brighton Road, Glenelg, was fined £15 with £1/12/costs in the Glenelg Police Court for…
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ADELAIDE, Monday,—Five men, employed at a hide and skin dealer's store at Albert Park, appeared in the Adelaide Police Court charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Theft of Gas Man Ordered To Pay £37/10/
A LENGTH of rubber, tubing, allegedly used, to link-up a gas pipe to a stove, was produced as evidence in the Police Court today,…
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