Police Search for Wanted Man
SYDNEY, Monday. — Police are scouring the Epping-Eastwood area for a man who it is alleged yesterday indecently assaulted an 11-year-old…
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Courts & crime, 1942
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Neighbors Ventilate Squabble In Court
ECHOES of a squabble between neighbors were heard in the Police Court today when Arthur John Hosking sued Albert George Rawlins for damages allegedly caused to a gate by defendant. The gate was erected by Hosking on a right-of-way common…
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NEW YORK, March 30.—Two super patriots, Robert Dier (15) and Norman Eastwood (12), aro now in prison waiting to appear before the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Husband Chased Man With Poker Police Charge Fails Adelaide
Allegedly attacked by a husband with a pocker, a soldier, fled from a house in Parkside in his underclothes, leaving his uniform,…
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The Wilcannia police patrol truck will [?] be ready for any eventuality. Fitted with the approved hoods for the headlamps it is now having a charcoal gas…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—At the Quarter Sessions today, Bernard McDade (21), laborer, was sentenced to seven years hard labor on a charge of armed…
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Local police officers have received advice that the Government has offered a reward of £300 for information leading to the apprehension…
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BROKEN HILL must be the most law abiding city in the Commonwealth. Last night a record for all…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—After the prosecution had intimated it had no evidence to offer, David Bernard Benson (23), who appeared in an…
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THIRTEEN [?]cientious objectors to [?]itary service will state their [?] before Mr. Solling, S.M., in the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Story Of Assault On Man Of 60 ADELAIDE
A man, aged 60, was attacked by two soldiers opposite the Adelaide Police Court, and as a result of injuries he received is in the Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Affray in Hotel Murder Is Alleged ADELAIDE
A 21-year-old soldier was charged in the Adelaide Police Court yesterday with the murder on Tuesday of James Hampton,…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.—Cyril Ivor Chilton (32), wharf laborer, of Black-burn Street, Adelaide, pleaded guilty to a charge of having been…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.—Fines totalling £13 with 10/- costs were Imposed on Mary Sutton Bramford (20), munition worker, of Woolnough road,…
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SYDNEY.âThe trial commenced in the Central Criminal Court today of William Ernest McDonald (40), soldier. who pleaded…
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One conscientious objector, who appealed in the Police Court today against helping in the prosecution of the war, was a turner and fitter employed in the manufacture of munitions…
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NEW YORK, April 14.—A Grand Jury has uncovered the greatest corruption scandal in the history of the New York police force…
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NEW YORK, April 14.—Mayor La Guardia and Police Commissioner Valentine today announced far-reaching chances in the New York…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Move To Get Exemption; Gaol For tribe MELBOURNE
On a charge of having given a bribe so that his brother could escape military service, Paul Simon, a Pole (25), of Carlton, textile worker, was…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—On two charges of rape, Norman St. Julien (25), motor mechanic, appeared at the Redfern Police Court today. Mr…
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