Attack Of Police Handling Of Liquor Laws SYDNEY, February 29
The police force was hopelessly inadequate for the task of controlling liquor traffic, or numbers of highly placed officers were turning a blind eye to what…
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Courts & crime, 1944
800 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 8 of 40
U.S. Servicemen Charged SYDNEY, March 1
Allied servicemen who allegedly threatened two Australian soldiers and a civilian with a revolver at Redfern last night, were later arrested by police and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police-convicts in Gun Duel
NEW YORK, March 1.—Police from four States are shooting it out with three armed escaped convicts near Greenwood. Mississippi. Terrorised Residents of the township arc waiting behind barred doors for the battle to end…
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CANBERRA.—The Minister for Customs (Senator Keane) revealed last night that organised traffic in black market liquor from a Melbourne supply to street corner pedlars in Sydney had been discovered by the Federal black market liquor squad…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Moving in for Final Assault on Pskov Siege Guns Hammering At Last Lines Of Defence Reports of Three German Generals Being Shot for Insubordination London, February 29
Two Russian arr[?]ges are [?]ong in from the north, north-east, and southeast, for the final assault on Pskov. Advanced guards swarmed across the Che[?] River, went on five miles to the west of it, and are now [?] mils south-east from the city. Siege…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pawnbroker Charged Sydney, March 3
On a charge of having had in his possession a quantity of foreign money and other articles reasonably suspected of having been stolen or unlawfully…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arbitration Court Adjournment Sought Melbourne, March 3
Suggestions for improvements of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Courts are to be sought from trade unions by the A.C.T.U. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ex-vichy Minister Charged London, March 5
The trial of Pierce Pucheu, former Vichy Minister of the Interior, on charges including activities against the safety of the State, treason, and illegal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys Before Court
Three boys appeared before the Children's Court today charged with being uncontrollable. Two were remanded to the custody of their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pyjama Girl Identified; Man Arrested for Murder
SYDNEY.—The Pyjama Girl has been identified, and a man has been charged with her murder. She has been identified as Mrs. Linda Agostini, an English woman, who married an Italian and who went to Melbourne from Sydney in 1933. The man arrested was her husband, Antonio Agostini (43), an Italian waiter. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Searching for Dog Poisoner
A dog poisoner is again at work, the activities of the fiend being confined to the bottom end of Wills Street. One family has reported the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Contemptible Theft
A contemptible theft wa[?] committed at the boiler shop at the Zinc Corporation on Friday. An apprentice Mr. J. Strickland, collected his pay at midday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Pyjama Girl" Murder; Nan Remanded
MELBOURNE.—Before he was brought to Melbourne on Sunday under police escort with the body of his wife, Antonio Agostini made a statement about the "Pyjama Girl" murder to the New South Wales Police Commissioner (Mr. McKay) in Sydney. This was disclosed at the City Court today, when Agostini, a 41-year-old Italian…
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When three boys appeared in the Children's Court yesterday on charges of being uncontrollable, two were remanded to the custody of their mother, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Murder of U.s. Serviceman
AUCKLAND.—The police have arrested Thomas Rex Beagle, a 19-year-old N.Z. soldier, on a charge of having murdered an American…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sensational Turn In Pyjama Girl Murder Italian Believed To Be Her Husband Arrested For Murder MELBOURNE, March 6
After the lapse of ten years, police to-day arrested Antonio Agostini (43), an Italian, and charged him with the murder of his wife, whom they allege to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leader Of Murder Inc. Executed New York, March 4
Louis Lepke Buchalter was electrocuted ten hours after the Supreme Court had rejected the plea that Buchalter had been improperly transferred from a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Charged With Abduction Of Girl 18
Following a report to local police of the disappearance of a girl aged 18 years and a man employed at Palgamurtee Station on February…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →7 Years For Soldiers For Brutal Assault DUBBO, March 7
When Gilbert Taylor (24), a soldier and first offender, was sentenced with another soldier, Walter Barber (22), for assault, his five months bride, a WAAF…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Pyjama Girl's" Husband Remanded Large Crowd Jostles For Admission To Court MELBOURNE, March 7
Antonio Ag[?] (40), the Italian husband of Linda Agostini, formerly Platt, believed by the Police to be the "Albury Pyjama Girl," made no reply when charged with her murder at Carlton on or about August 26, 1934. He was remanded in custody…
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