Deserter Who Defied Police For 11 Months
MELBOURNE — Pursued through three States for 11 months, a 30-year-old Army deserter from South Australia…
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Courts & crime, 1943
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Gaol for Careless Talkers
LONDON, May.11.—A high-ranking British officer has been sent to gaol for a year for having revealed information. This is announced in an official book, issued last night to servicemen as a warning against careless talk. The book, called the "Casebook of Careless Talk," gives the sentences…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →45 Years Spent in Gaol
LONDON. May 11.—Robert Wilson, 65-year-old Australian, who has spent 45 of the last 48 years in gaol. was sentenced at Middlesex Sessions to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Farewell to Constable Henry
A farewell party, organised by three of his colleagues in the local police force, Constables Walsh, J. Grubb and R. Day, was given to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Employers' Novel Application Court Asked To Reduce Wage For Alleged Go Slow SYDNEY, May 11
Judge O'Mara in the Federal Arbitration Court today said he thought it deplorable at a time like the present to admit the right of employees…
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Constable J. S. Beaton, of Menindee, has received advice of his transfer to Urunga on the North Coast. Constable Beaton spent two years in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Remarkable Story Told In Adelaide Police Court Fine For Sly Grog Selling
ADELAIDE.—A remarkable story of how a hotel "lounge girl" named "Hilda" induced a 70-year-old hermit to allow her to use his house at Mile End for immoral parties and induced him to sell sly grog was told in the Adelaide…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Husband Remanded on Murder Charge
SYDNEY.—Herbert George Of t (31), a metal worker, was charged with murder at Redfern Police Court yesterday and remanded until May…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Cadets Protest Adelaide, May 12
Protests were made at the meeting of the South Australian Police Association last night against the alleged action of an inspector in demanding that each…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Remanded for Murder of Wife Sydney, May 12
Herbert George Ott (31), a sheet metal writer. waa remanded at the Redfern Court today until May 19 on a charge of having murdered his wife…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Missing Boy Found in Park; Police Problem
SYDNEY.—Missing since Tuesday night, Ronald Pickford (8), of Marrickville, was found wandering batless and bootless in Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bout of Flu Blamed for Court Appearance
A severe bout of flu, which required a stiff "toddy" of brandy to buck the patient up was offered as an excuse in the Police Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sequel To Car Smash In Oxide Street; Driver Of Utility Before Court
THE story of a collision between two motor vehicles in Oxide Street on March 26, which resulted in one car somersaulting on to its hood, was told in the Police Court this afternoon before Mr. R. Solling, S.M. The driver of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Misappropriation Charge
On Wednesday at the local Police Court a man named Ernest Campbell, who at the time of his arrest was employed at Polocara Station. Tilpa, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Murder
SYDNEY.—The police today arrested a young man on a charge of the murder of Duncan McPhee, 69, of Darlinghurst, who died in St…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →3 Months' Gaol On Vagrancy Charge
AMAN who had twice previously been convicted of vagrancy and asked to leave the city, but who failed to do so, appeared in the Police Court before Mr. R. Solling, S.M., today, on a similar charge. He was sentenced to three…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Leave Ban Lifted
The ban on police leave imposed approximately six weeks ago has now been lifted, according to advice received in Broken Hill today…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Man on Murder Charge Sydney, May 14
Police today arrested a man and charged him with the murder of Duncan McPhee (69), who died in hospital from sounds in the abdomen and back,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Life Imprisonment for Murder of Americans Auckland (N.z.), May 14
A sentence of life imprisonment with hard labor was imposed at Wellington today on John Sidney Crawford (26), seaman, who shot dead two United…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Theodore Over ruled On Court Charges Against Two Union Secretaries
MELBOURNE.—Although the Director-General of Allied Works (Mr. Theodore) intended that prosecutions against two union secretaries should be proceeded with, he was over-ruled by the Acting Attorney-General (Mr…
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