Theft Conviction For Shearer £10 FINE
A fine of £10 was imposed on William O'Meley in the Police Court yesterday when he pleaded not guilty to a charge of having stolen an overcoat from…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Alleged Conspiracy C.I.B. Man Charged LISMORE, February 8
When Harold Douglas Kenny, of the C.I.B., was charged with conspiracy to obtain money from certain persons be said it was a conspiracy against him…
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ADELAIDE.—Pleading guilty to two counts of having passed valueless cheques, Raymond James Priest, engineer, of North Terrace, city, was…
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MELBOURNE.—A man who said he was a menace to society was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in General Sessions…
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SYDNEY.—The woman murdered in Centennial Park yesterday is believed to be Joyce Patterson, who resided in Bourke Street,…
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SYDNEY.—In the Central Court yesterday William Bennett [?]0) was remanded on £1,000 bail on a charge of having stolen 500 watches…
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Damage to the letters on the Morris Memorial in front of the Technical College and petty thieving at the Baths have again come under the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth Charged with Causing Fire Wondonga, February 13
After a fire had destroyed the home of Mr. R. T. F. Heinze, Main Street Tallangatta, police arrested a youth and charged him with wilfully setting fire to…
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Police are working on the theory that the Centennial Park murder victim Mrs. Joyce Paulson, 31, was killed by [?] soldier…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Assaults On Women U.S. Soldiers Sentenced Brisbane, February 13
Charged with assaulting two women with intent to do bodily grievous harm. Fred Bryson a negro soldier of the U.S. Army, was sentenced to six years' hard…
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ADELAIDE,—Because "he didn't like the place," an 18-year-old prisoner at the Adelaide Gao! walked out the back gate and went home to his…
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JUNEE.—The death two days after her admission to Junee Hospital of Mrs. Bush, widow of four years and mother of nine children, is being…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lieut. Charged With Attempted Murder MELBOURNE, February 14
At the City Court today, Lieut. William Shelmon Horne, AMF, was charged with having attempted to murder Francis Llewellyn Grose, a merchant navy…
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MELBOURNE.—Lieut. William Sheldon Horne, 40, AMF, was charged in the City Court with having attempted to murder Capt. Francis…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese Bases First Assault on Japan Chungking, February 13
Commenting on the declaration by Admiral Nimitz that a naval offensive in the Central Pacific aims to obtain Chinese bases, General Stilwell, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Constable Charged Money Not Accounted for Lismore, February 14
It was alleged in the Lismore Police Court today that of £115/4/- collected from Italians in the Nimbin district for a mock wedding last year, only £63/4/-…
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About midday today nineteen soldiers escaped from Miranda detention barracks. A large number of soldiers, shortly after dinner, made a cincerted…
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Questioned yesterday by Detective-Sergeant D. Truman and Constable M. Ford in regard to the sale of a battery, a man is alleged to have…
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Constable R. Ashton, officer in charge of the West Police Station, will leave Broken Hill on Saturday on transfer to Woy Woy…
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Detective-Sergt. D. Truman and Constable K. Buckland today investigated a report to the effect that several boys had gelignite in their…
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