Man Charged With Manslaughter Following Collision
Goulburn, Jan. 11—Following a fatal accident early today when Laurie John frey (22), soldier, was killed, police charged the driver of the truck with…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Police Conduct Two-up Raids
Sydney, January 11.—Vice Squad members overpowered "a cockatoo" it a two-up school near Parramatta on Sunday afternoon before he could girl…
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MELBOURNE— In a tiny wooden church at Burke's Flat on Sunday morning. Garth Cracknall, exLeague footballer and ex-police…
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Hong Kong (A.A.P. Reuter), January 12.—Police and Chinese squatters in the fomer walled city of Kowloon fought a pitched battle for a half hour this…
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The Minister for Public Works. Mr. J. J. Cahill, in correspondence to the members for Cobar and Sturt, Messrs. Davidson and Wattison, stated that the…
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SYDNEY.— A 39-year-old laborer Lloyd Fleming, was charged at West Wyalong Police Station this morning with having murdered…
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Constable I. C. Ballard, who has been stationed at Tibocburra for the past 20 months, has passed through here to take up his new position at Lawrence…
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West Wyalong, January 14.—Lloyd Fleming (39), laborer, appeared in the West Wyalong court today on a charge of murder and was remanded until…
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Sydney, January 14.—Frank Munro (59), electrical engineer, was arrested on a provisional warrant as he left Long Bay Gaol this morning after serving a…
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SYDNEY — Extra police have been assigned to the Coogee and Maroubra districts in an endeavor to trap the maniac who has attacked…
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SYDNEY— Police arrested two boys at Drummoyne after they were told they had shot the mast off a child's toy yacht with 22 rifles…
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A charge of assault be Jack David Owen Glasson against Patrick Reginald Cain was withdrawn in the Police Court yesterday…
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A welcome to the Stipendiary Magistrate for this circuit, Mr. A. N. Bott, was extended before business was commenced in the Police Court yesterday…
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LONDON, January 15.— Three native women in Tanganyika (East Africa) hired a "Lion-Man" for 15/ to kill a man they disliked…
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In the Police Court yesterday Mr. A. N. Bou, on account of the seriousness of the charge, refused to accept the evidence of the police in a charge…
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"This is a very light penalty under the circumstances, but I am hoping you will be able to pull yourself together. That is way I am giving you this last…
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London, January 18.—An ex-public school boy, 50-year-old Edwin Davies, with a cultured voice, who preyed on the affections of respectable women in…
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ADELAIDE— A thief stole £18 in goods from the home of an Edwardstown fruiterer on Saturday night. Laurence Spezzana, of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Magistrate Truant Exchange Drawings SYDNEY.—Mr. Debenham, S.M., exchanged drawings in Parramatta Children's Court with a 13 year-old boy charged with truancy
The boy who had been remanded to Yasmar Welfare Home a fortnight ago, assured Mr. Debenham that he would go to school and stay there…
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SYDNEY.— In the Lunacy Court today a young V woman, who was originally charged on January 9 at the Parramatta Children's Court with being a neglected child, was on police application remanded to the Parramatta Court on February 6…
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