Two Men On Murder Charge
Sydney, Feb. 27.—Two men charged with the murder of Arthur Edgar Wall denied that they were in the flat where Wall was allegedly stabbed to death on…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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False Pretences Man Who Got £7,000 Gets Gaol
Sydney, February 27.—A young man charged in the Parramatta Quarter Sessions today with having obtained £7,000 by false pretences was sentenced to four…
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Sydney, February 27.—The head of a gang of thieves who have cost the State many thousands of pounds by stealing from railways was today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Federal Police Search For Missing Witness In The Garden Case
CYDNEY.—Although his wife professes a belief that he is suffering from loss of memory, Commonwealth Security Officers have joined a search for a missing bank clerk who gave evidence "in the…
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THE Court of Quarter Sessions and District Court will open tomorrow before Judge Berne. John Patrick Matthews, who has been charged with arson, is the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Poor Response to Court Order to End Qsld Strike
BRISBANE. — Most Queensland railwaymen refused to obey the Industrial Court order to resume work today. A few men passed through the crowds of pickets…
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ADELAIDE.—While1 seated on the Torrens Bank with her husband, a woman had her handbag, containing £40 stolen…
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ADELAIDE.—A Caltowie gra-Z zier (Lionel Walter Gray, 25) was fined £16 with 10 cost in Adclaide police Court when he…
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Sydney, March 1.—Possession of military rifles and ammunition, except by authorised persons, from June 1 next, will be illegal and punishable by fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months,…
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MELBOURNE—A fire believed to have been deliberately lit swept on a mile-wide front through 50 acres of grass on thc bank of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Break Up Meeting of Mosley's New Union
London, March 1.—Police stopped a meeting of supporters of Mosley's New Union movement at Hampstead after a crowd comprising mostly young Jews,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Banking Act Further Argument In High Court
Melbourne, March 1.—No powers could be granted more widely than they that had been granted by a special statute to the Bank of N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comic Court Downs Scotwyn; Ungar Third
MELBOURNE.—Comic Court proved too good for the penalised Scotwyn and Ungar in the Ascot Vale Stakes at Flemington this afternoon. It was a magnificent race and a thrilling finish…
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MELBOURNE.— A college to train officers for the Victorian Police Force is to be established on the site of the present police…
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LONDON, March 3. —Police stopped a meeting of supporters of Sir Oswald Mosley's New Union Movement at Hampstead, after a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court View on Minors Marrying
SYDNEY. — The marriages of persons under 21 years of age are valid in cases where, ages were overstated and the consent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Fire Shots During Chase In Heavy Traffic
MELBOURNE.—Nine shots were fired by members of a police wireless patrol during a chase through heavy city traffic last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Had Ear in Pocket Man Charged With Assault On Father-In-Law
Sydney, March 4.—Part of a human car was found in the pocket of a man charged with assault and occasioning bodily harm to his…
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In the District Court yesterday Judge F. W. Berne gave his decision on the appeal by Ronald Henry Tester against a term of imprisonment for three months imposed by the Magistrate in the Police Court on December 13. Tester was ordered to enter…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Divorce Court Issue Hearing By Judge Berne
In the Court of Matrimonial Causes yesterday before Judge T. W. Berne Ida Beryl Smith petitioned for a divorce from Ernest Cyril Smith on the…
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