Scown Released On Bond To Pay £26 Compensation For Assault
Before Mr. G. L. Berry in the Police Court yesterday the adjourned assault case of Ford v Scown was resumed. At the conclusion of evidence Mr…
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Courts & crime, 1945
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Licensing Court
An application by Percival Victor Dennis for a spirit merchant's licence was before Mr. G. L. Berry. Licensing Magistrate, in the Quarterly…
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SYDNEY. — Douglas Hayward Blackman, a soldier, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment at the Balmain Court today for stealing 472…
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Wollongong, April 23.—Described as a cunning scheme, malingerer and [?] Bernard Hudson Matheson (20), laborer, was sentenced to three months'…
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Thomas Andrew Rosman made application in the licencing Court yesterday before Mr. G. L. Berry for a transfer of the licence of the Newmarket Hotel from…
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MELBOURNE.—Investigations indicate that Thomas Charles Clark (25), whose blood-stained body was found yesterday in a tree thicket at…
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SYDNEY.—Bernard Matheson, 20, laborer, who recently claimed that he had been afloat on a raft for weeks, was sentenced to three…
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In the Warden's Court yesterday before Mr. G. L. Berry, Mining Warden, evidence was continued in the application of Robert Robinson and…
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MELBOURNE. —A number of rifles, revolvers, machine gun parts and a large quantity of ammunition and powerful explosives were seized when…
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MELBOURNE.—Trailed by police for 60 miles from Orbost on Saturday night, two youths. 18 and l6, were surprised in forest country two…
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MELBOURNE.—At midnight last night Kevin Albert Joiner (17) was charged with the murder of Thomas Charles Clark at Mount Martha on…
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Melbourne, April 25.—With extensive bloodstains on clothing, particularly near the neck of the coat, the body of Charley Michael Clark, 25, was found…
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Five judges in the High court in Sydney on Tuesday held that the Commonwealth Tuesday has no power to require the lodging of securities with a bank…
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Alderman Edes asked last night at the Council meeting whether anything had been done to catch the thieves who were so consistently stealing Council property…
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SYDNEY.—Customs officers and police, who discovered an illicit still near Mt. Murray, in the Robertson district, early yesterday…
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The Queensland Industrial Court on Friday varied the State Pastoral Award by increasing the sheating that from 43/9 to 47/6 per 100 and proportionate…
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Mr. G. L. Berry, Mining Warden held an inquiry at the Warden's court into an application lodged on March 8, 1945, for Mining Lease of Crown Lands by…
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Sydney, April 27.—At the Central Court today, Eric S. Cahill (50). a solicitor, was committed for trial on live charges of having fraudulently omitted…
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Sydney, April 27.—[?] Norman [?] specially in gynaecology [?] was fined £3 [?] in the…
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