Six Years Gaol For "Lady Bountiful"
LONDON, March 19.—At Leeds Assizes 47-year-old Dorothy Elliott, J.P.. secretary of two colliery companies and known in her home district…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Youth Charged With Breaking And Entering MELBOURNE, March 19
Detectives who had hidden all night in the premises—and several times before recently—arrested a 16-year-old youth when he climbed through a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Murder Charge Withdrawn MELBOURNE, March 20
The charge against James Murdoch (66), of Northcote, of having murdered David Orchard [?] also of Northcote, was withdrawn today in the City Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police for Air Force
Constables M. Bruce and F. Scholes have received their call-up for the R.A.A.F. and will leave for Sydney on Thursday. On Friday they will take…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Arm-In-Arm After Attempted Murder Charge SYDNEY, March 20
After Edward John Oswald (53) had been found not guilty at the Central Criminal Court today on a charge of having attempted to murder Lillian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Illicit Liquor Charges 900 Bottles In Court SYDNEY, March 20
Allegedly seized when Customs inspectors entered two shops in Milson[?] Point in December, about 900 bottles of liquor bearing labels of numerous…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bicycles Parked At Police Station
An Adelaide news item states that many cyclists who recently attended a police auction sale chained their bicycles to the City Watchhouse…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Forbes Guilty Five Years' Gaol Crown and Judge Attacked Sydney, March 22
An attack by the accused both on the Crown, which he accused of dastardly methods and on Mr. Justice Street, whom he charged with bias were the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Men Dig Way Into Police Station Cells
The cells at the Central Police Station have a history. There have been escapes, suicides, desperate prisoners have been locked up in them…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Conspiracy Charge Against Police LISMORE, March 22
Evidence that after they had been advised by the constable in charge of the Nimbin Police Station that their brother would be called into the C.C.C. he had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stealing Allegations Causes Strike Sydney, March 23
Six gangs of wharf laborers today refused to continue to discharge cargo from an overseas vessel following an altercation in which a wharf laborer and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stealing Charges Against U. S. Servicemen BRISBANE March 23
Three American servicemen were charged in the Brisbane city Court to-day on stealing charges Involving more than £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Pyjama Girl" Was Accidentally Shot Alleged Statement By Husband To State Police Chief
MELBOURNE.—Linda Agostini was shot with a revolver in an early morning struggle with her husband in bed at their home at Carlton, according to an alleged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Gaoled for Theft of Tyres
SYDNEY.—Having pleaded g[?] to a charge of having broken into the Water Board garage at Warramgamba and stolen tyres and tubes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol For Police Conspiracy to Defraud Lismore, March 28
Found guilty at the lismore Quarter Sections last week on a charge of conspiracy, former police constables Harold Douglas Kenny (44) and Ernest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Defence In Murder Charge: Verdict of Guilty
ADELAIDE.—Main points of the defence of Harold James Box (45), fitter, of Blackwood, were that the revolver went off accidentally…
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MELBOURNE.—Arrested in Newcastle last Sunday Cecil Bobbs (37), metal worker, was charged in the City Court today with having at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Boys' Club
The Broken Hill Citizens and Police Boys' Club are offering for sale by private tender a suite of furniture comprising dressing table, loughboy and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Death Sentence For Murder ADELAIDE, March 29
In the Adelaide Criminal Court today Harold James Box (45), fitter, of Blackwood, was sentenced to death for the murder of Lance Brown (54), money…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court a Drover Fined
At the Wilcannia Police Court, last week, before Mr. R. W. S. Kelly, P.M., Charles Alfred Bishop was fined £2, with 1/- costs, for travelling sheep within the…
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