Gaol Term Follows "Cigarette Deal"
MELBOURNE.—Denis Farrington, hairdresser, of Acland Street, St. Kilda, told St. Kilda Court that he had paid £120 for two cases which he…
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Courts & crime, 1946
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Pedal Wireless Sets for Police
Police Stations at Wilcannia and Tibooburra will shortly be equipped with pedal transceiver wireless sets for operation in conjunction with the…
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LONDON, February 12.—Egyptian police raided the offices of the Wafdist newspapers Al Misri and Walf al Misri and seized all editions carrying…
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Melbourne, February 13 The lesly of Thomas Smith (32), a Laborer of North Ballarat, was found floating in a swimming pool at the Eureka Stockale…
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Questioned by two constables because they thought he had behaved suspiciously in Argent Lane on the night of February 6, a man was…
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Sydney, February 13.—On the morning of January 2, Mrs. Jeanette Wicks (45) left her home in Maclcay Street, Potts Point, carrying £200 of…
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Two men appeared before Mr. H. Isles, SM, in the Police Court yesterday morning for stealing. George Leonard McKennell Pollard…
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Mr. H. Isles who was recently appointed Stipendiary Magistrate for Broken Hill district conducted his first Court of Petty Sessions at the…
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Sydney, February 14—Mrs. Jeanette Wicks (45), whose battered body was round in her York Street kiosk on January 2, died from strangulation…
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Armidale, February 14.—At the Armidale Quarter Sessions today Reginald William Kevin Maguire (16) was sentenced to 12 months on a charge of…
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Thomas Halley Brooks was fined £[?] in default four days imprisonment in the Police Court yesterday by Mr. H. Isles, S.M., for using insulting words to two…
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LONDON, February 13.—Sentenced to death for the murder of Reuben Martirosoff—nicknamed "Russian Robert"—a-24-year-old Polish soldier, Henryk Malinowsky, laughed broadly at Old Bailey today…
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Hobart, February 14—The first execution under a Labor Government in Tasmanian history took place in Hobart today. Frederick…
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London, February 11—Police at Gil[?]tara have arrested Thomas McLynn, a fireman on the British steamer Empire Mace, which had just arrived from…
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In the Licensing Court yesterday, before the Licensing Magistrate William John Cousins applied for a transfer of the licence of the Hillside Hotel from…
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Police stations at Wilcannia and Tibooburra will shortly be equipped with pedal transceiver wireless sets for operation in conjunction with the…
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Sydney, February 14.—The Australian hard court tennis championships will be held in Sydney late this year. The L.T.A. has allocated the period…
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Broken Hill Citizens and Police Boys' Club is to have a full brass band of 55 instruments. This was revealed at a meeting of the committee…
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Disappearance of 69 gallons of petrol from the service station of the Broken Hill Co-operative Society on February 3 has been receiving the…
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When an underground worker off day shift yesterday at Thompson's section (British), North Mine, sought his clothes in his locker in the changehouse he…
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