Two Years For Theft Of Child's Body
Auckland (A.A.P.-Reuter), February 6.—Found guilty in the Supreme Court at Timaru on a charge of improperly interfering with the dead body of…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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South Korea "American Police State"
New York.—February 6.—An Australian member on the United Nations Korean Commission, S. J. Jackson, has described South Korea under American…
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SYDNEY.—When a smartlydressed young man stepped from a Skymaster plare.on its arrival at Mascot last night from ' West…
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A MAN who was alleged to have entered Middleton's Store through broken window last night scrambled across several buildings to escape being caught by police, it was stated in the Police Court today…
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MELBOURNE.—After a decree nisi was granted in, 1940 to Mura Rose Earle (37), of Mere House, Wellington Parade, East Melbourne,…
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Melbourne, February 6.—After a decree nisi was granted in 1946 to Mura Rose Earle, 37, of Mere House, Wellington Parade. East Melbourne, for a…
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A 22-year-old miner, Lawrence Percy, was remanded until February 12 on a charge of having been in Middleton's store for the purpose of stealing when…
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Sydney, February 8.—The police are still searching for four Malay seamen who disappeared yesterday just before they were due to said on the Westralia…
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MELBOURNE.—Legal representatives took up much of the small space available in the High Court today when the State Governments of Victoria, South Australia and West Australia, and all the…
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LONDON, February 8.—A man who defrauded overseas traders, including Australians, to the extent of nearly £50,000, was sentenced to…
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Owners of bicycles which have been missed recently are asked to call at Central Police Station. There are nine bicycles there awaiting claimants…
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ADELAIDE.—Hugh Major (47), laborer, of George Street, North Adelaide, was in Norwood Police Court sent to gaol for 14 days for…
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Sydney, February 9.—Detectives to-night were combing the underworld for a man who is alleged to have totally slabbed another man in a Drawl at…
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ADELAIDE. — Because the Fire Brigade had let incipient fires burn, several incendiaries were serving prison sentences in Adelaide, South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Judges Closely Related To Trading Bank Shareholders; But Deemed Competent To Hear Case Submission Of Non-Qualification Rejected After Position Explained And Assurances Given First Day Of Hearing Of Bank Nationalisation Issue Before Full Bench Of High Court
Melbourne, February 9.—A submission that two judges of the High Court were not qualified to hear the case against nationalisation of banking because they were closely related to bank shareholders was rejected when the case in which three State Governments and the private trading banks are challenging the Federal Banking Act, commenced before the Full Bench of…
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Sydney, February 10.—Four men were committed for trial at the Central Police Court today on a charge or assaulting Vera Austin, bookkeeper at the Olympic…
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ADELAIDE. — A 23-year-old West Mitcham man is alleged by police to have contributed toward the death of his two-year-old…
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PARIS, February 9.— Paris police have started a drive against kissing on the boulevards and cuddling in cafe…
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Yondon. February 9.—A number of people were killed or wounded when Spanish troops fired on a Moorish nationalist procession at Tetuan, in…
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Adelaide, February 11.—Roy Selway (23). keeper at a dogs' home at West Mitcham. wept bitterly in the Adelaide Police Court today when he appeared on…
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