Supt. Scott New Police Commissioner
SYDNEY.—The State Cabinet has appointed Superintendent J. F. Scott Commissioner of Police in succession to Mr. W. J. McKay…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Superintendent Scott New Commissioner of Police
Sydney, February 17—The appointment of Superintendent J. f. Scott as Commissioner of Police was announced today by the Premier, Mr. McGirr. His…
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Adelaide, February 17—In the Criminal Court today, Keith Tripp (41) painter, of Kirkcaldy, was sent to gaol for 18 months on four charges of…
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MELBOURNE. — A 15-year-old schoolboy has been charged with a murder last night. His arrest followed inquiries by…
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ADELAIDE.—- An escaped lan atle fought violently with three police officers before being recaptured at Brownhill Creek. Before police arrived, a woman who had tried to stop him interfering with her husband's backboard became terrified and fled with her…
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LONDON, February 18.—Boys and girls before Tower Hill Juvenile Court, London, suddenly realised that Princess Elizabeth was…
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Sydney, February 19—Two youths who were convicted of slashing a Chinese with a razor were each sentenced to seven years imprisonment by…
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Sydney February 17.—the appointment of Superintendent J. P. Scott as Commissioner of Police was announced today by the Premier Mr. McGirr. His…
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Adelaide, February 19.—Found guilty by a jury in the Criminal Court of having administered poison to her husband, James Cornelius Brooks, aged…
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SYDNEY. — Curious aspects of the death of an elderly man, whose body was washed up on the beach at Manly about 2 a.m. today, are…
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SYDNEY. â In Central Court today, Charles John Foulstone (32), carpenter, was remanded on £ 500 bail until…
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SYDNEY.— Raymond Alwyn Morris, 33, street photographer, who was found guilty of having flogged his wife with knotted flex…
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AUCKLAND — Sister Robert Phillips (tutor sister at Taumarunui Hospital) was charged in Taumarunui Court with having…
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ADELAIDE.—Among five men charged in Glenelg Police Court with assault was a Magarey Medallist. The hearing was adjourned. The charge was against Marcus…
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MELBOURNE. — Two pistols, gelignite plugs, detonators and fuse lengths, alleged to be safe-blowing equipment, were found in a…
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Sydney, February 23.—A detective said in the Special Federal Court today that J. S. ("Jock") Garden had told him that when he and other members of a syndicate received £12,500 deposit on a New Guinea timber lease they possessed…
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MELBOURNE. — Police mingled with shoppers in the Bourke Street store of Manton and Sons Pty Ltd. in a fruitless search for a thief who…
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Sydney, February 24.—Shortly before she was shot dead outside a residential at Lilyfield this month. Mrs. Edith May Kitching (25) allegedly told her husband…
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ADELAIDE.—Roy Selway was committed for trial today by the coroner on a charge of having murdered Sandra Selway (2) on February 7. Selway or Clancy (22), married,…
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MELBOURNE. — An intruder who old in a house in Dorothy Avenue, Glenhuntly, for 90 minutes heard himself being…
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