Woman Remanded on Murder Charge
Sydney, March 31.—Charged with the murder of Isobel Theresa Latham at Randwick on March 24. Thelma Margaret McNamara (36) appeared at…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Boxer Fined For Assault on M.H.R.
HOBART.—A former boxer who assaulted Dr. Gaha, M.H.H., in his surgery, was fined £10, and ordered to pay £5 damages by Mr…
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Sydney, March 31. — Joyce Follett (26), clerk, of Crows Nest, who was charged in the Central Criminal Court today with the murder of her…
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Sydney, March 31.—For the first time a Australia, Sydney police over the Easter holidays used a plane to observe traffic on the roads…
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New York, March 31.—Ten pickets and two policemen were injured in a bloody and furious fifteen minutes battle in Wall Street on the second day of the…
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ADELAIDE—Damage estimated £200 was done at the Unley Park, home of Adelaide's police court magistrate (Mr. L. E. Clarke. SM)…
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Melbourne, April 1.—Sidney George Geyer (41), tramway employee of Camberwell, was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital today in a serious condition…
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BRISBANE—Just before his surrender E. P. Bowe told reporters that he wag submitting to volantary attest because he thought the…
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GEELONG. — During an openair religious gathering in Little Malop Street, a man entered the "ring" and suggested a game of…
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Lismore, April 2—Following an inquest in the Coroner's Court today Augustus Jones (37) of Blacktown, was committed for trial on a charge of murdering…
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NEW YORK, April 5.—A Negro clergyman has filed a suit in the Chicago Superior Court claiming 500,000 dollars…
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Last night at about 8.45 o'clock after a disturbance in Ardent street near the Theatre Royal Hotel one man charged mother with assault. The man was…
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IN these days of limited petrol supplies it is not uncommon for motorists to have their tanks "milked."…
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Sydney, April 5.—Detectives are still in doubt as to whether Robert Sylvester Condron (46), railway guard, who died in Temora on March 2 from arsenic…
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Sydney, April 5. — A 26-year-old clerk, Richard Hughes, who reported to the police today that he had been bashed and robbed of £234/10,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alabama Kid In Sydney Gaol Order For Deportation Awaited
The U.S. colored boxer, Clarence Reeves, known professionally as the Alabama Kid, is in Long Bay Gaol under an Immigration Deportment…
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Sydney, April 5. — Saying that the man be was charged with murdering had been his best friend. Michael Kelly (48), pleaded justifiable homicide in…
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UNDER the tuition of Mr. Tom Nankivell, the Police Boys' Club Band held its first rehearsal yesterday after a long recess. Mr. Nankivel, one of…
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Cairo, April 5.—Three hundred and fifty cadets of the Cairo Police College began a hunger strike. The police replied when the crowd stoned the police…
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Eleven known criminals were escorted by detectives from Randwick racecourse on Saturday. The eleven included pickpockets,…
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