Politician Fined For Assault
Perth, January 2.—Edward Joseph Frederick, Holman, 41, the member for Forrest of the W.A. Legislative Assembly, was fined £10 with £4/11- costs in…
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Courts & crime, 1946
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Sex Lesson Blamed for Assault
LONDON, January 2.—A lesson on sex in school was blamed by a boy aged 13 who was charged with having assaulted a girl aged six…
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ACTIONS of two 20-year-old men in the Orange Spot shop in Argent Street last night landed them in the Police Court on charges of using indecent language and assault. One was fined and the other bound over…
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When brought before Mr. A. R. Raschke, acting S.M., in the Police COurt yesterday morning, a man defended the charge of committing nuisance brought by…
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SYDNEY.—Robbery is believed by the police tb have been the motive for the murder of Mrs. Jean Wicks (45), of McLeay Street, Pott's Point, whose body was found in her tobacco kiosk in York Street, Sydney, on Wednesday night…
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Two young men appeared before Mr. A. R. Raschke, Acting S.M., in the Police Court yesterday morning on charges of unlawful assault and…
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Sydney, January 4. Fifteen detectives have concentrated on a bunt for the murderer of Mrs. Jane Wicks who was battered and strangled in her small [?]…
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MANILA.— January 4.—The defence department has announced that 10,000 sub-machine guns have been issued to 19,000 Filipino military police for…
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NEW YORK, January 6.—The purchase of electric eye fluoroscopic equipment to plug some "holes" in the Washington District Gaol was…
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London, January 6.—A court in Cologne complimented the German police on the conduct of the investigation which led to the sentencing to death…
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Labuan, January 7.—Hundreds of houses in England and Australia are empty because of the iniquities and massacres per-pertrated by Jap war criminals, said Lt. Blaxer, Prosecutor, in the Military Court today when asking that the death penalty be…
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A party of 12 boys, members of the Broken Hill Police Boys' Club, accompanied by Sgt. E. W. Richards, in charge of the party, will leave by the Comet…
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CAIRO, January 7.—Senator Amin Osman Pasha, formerly Wafdist Minister of Finance, was fatally wounded when two shots were fired…
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There are six men's bicycles now at Central Police Station. The police are anxious that the owners come along and collect them…
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London, January 6.—Indian police on Saturday morning let off tear gas to disperse [?]00 strikers at the plant of the Burma Shell Oil Co. who attempted to…
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SYDNEY.—Douglas Ronald Morris (26), journalist, was charged in the Central Police Court today with having murdered Mrs. Jean Wicks, York Street tobacco kiosk proprietress, on January 2. Accused was remanded until…
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Sydney, January 8.—Police who are investigating the finding of a woman's body in a tobacco kiosk in York Street, City, on January 2, arrested a man at…
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CHICAGO, January 8.—Police have announced that a 65-year-old janitor and his wife have been detained after detectives located in the basement of…
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Evidence taken in Broken Hill in connection with the claims of bus drivers and hotel employees for new awards has been referred to Chief…
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CHARGED with having assaulted a police officer at South Broken Hill yesterday, a 33-year-old miner when charged in the Police Court this morning said he had no recollection of the affair. He was accused of having thrown…
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