Death P[?]nalty For Want[?] Murder
SYDNEY.—Stat[?]Opposition leaders yesterday urged that in order to check [?] current wave of crime in New So[?] Wales the…
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Courts & crime, 1945
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Woman Acquitted on Murder Charge
Sydney, April 16,—Charged with the under of her husband a 49-year-old mother of 13 children was found not guilty in the Central Criminal Court…
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Sydney, April 16.—The illegal use of firearms in Sydney has grown to alarming proportions, and lives of members of the police force recently had been lost through wanton shooting, said the president of the N.S.W. Police Association, Sgt. J. V. Driscoll, today,…
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Sydney, April 17.—Following the death today of John Cane (40), a Greek cafe proprietor of Orange, Denis James Lyons has been Charged with murder…
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SYDNEY.pAn Owen gun, which was locked in a drawer at the armory at Fort Street Boys' High School, Petersham, on Thursday night, has…
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SYDNEY.—A mother of 10 children was acquitted in the Central Criminal Court of the murder of her husband. The woman Elsie Mary…
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Sydney, April 17.—Supporting a nation at the N.S.W. Police Association conference today that the Association should not affiliation with the Labour Council,…
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ADELAIDE.—In a raid on the home of a taxi-driver at Mile End on Monday night the police recovered more than 500 bottles of liquor valued at…
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Cross-actions arising out of an alleged fight between two men on March 20 last were heard by Mr. G. L. Berry, S.M., in the Police Court again to-day. The case had been adjourned from last Friday. Harold Edward Ford charged Fred Clifford Scown with assault, and…
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Sydney, April 18—The annual conference of the Police Association [?] to-day to continue efforts to secure police access to arbitration…
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Sydney, April 18.—Transport of New South Wales police, particularly [?] to country areas for any Immediate Investigation will be by plane…
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Sydney, April 19.—Francis Alexander Walls (46) a solider who has been charged with [?] was today remanded on May 3. When his case was…
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SYDNEY. —The case of Francis Alexander Walls (46), soldier, who has been charged with the murder of Cecil Miller and Arthur Graham who…
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In the Police Court yesterday before Mr. G. S. Berry the assault case of [?]old Edward Ford against Fred Scown was continued. After evidence had been…
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Sydney, April 19.—At the Police association conference today it was decided against asking for [?] and open-necked type of tunic for summer wear…
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SYDNEY.—Consideration is, being given to providing sub-machine guns or the N.S.W. police force, so that detectives will be able to meet armed…
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SYDNEY.—The N.S.W. Government has decided to purchase an aeroplane to; be used to transport detective and other police officers…
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CROSS-ACTIONS in an assault case between Harold Edward Ford and Fred Clifford Scown came before Mr. G. L. Berry, S.M., in the Police Court again this morning. Scown was convicted of assault on Ford, the…
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In the police Court yesterday before Mr. G. L. Berry, [?] Francis Murphy was charged with having failed to give way to a vehicle on his right[?]…
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Newcastle, April 20.—On two charges, Clarence Edward Peters (30), a merchant seaman, was sentenced to five years and two years gaol in the Quarter Sessions…
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