Police Can't Get Houses
London, January 7.—The fact that there are 5,000 fewer men in the metropolitan police force then there were before the war is…
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Courts & crime, 1949
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Police X-Ray Hand Found In Shark
Perth, January 7.—Police have X-rayed a partly decomposed human hand found in the stomach of a shark. The hand was found on Wednesday in…
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The Israeli delegation to the United Nations at Lake Success today charged Britain with violating the U.N. truce in sending planes across the Palestine…
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Monthly Court will commence tomorrow at 2 p.m. Mr. A. N. Bott. S.M.. will occupy the Bench. Cases set down for tomorrow…
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The first sitting of the Monthly Court for 1949 which was set down to commence today will not start until tomorrow as Mr A. N. Bott, S.M., was unable…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Charge Fails In Menindee Court
Mr. F. L. McNamara, S.M., was engaged all day on Monday at the Court of Petty Sessions, Menindee, in a keenly contested case when Peter Davidson, miner, of Broken Hill, was charged with driving a 5-ton…
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Bombay, January 10. — Four armed men calmly drove away with a lorry containing £ [?],000 in wages which was standing in front…
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Melbourne, January 10.—Armed detectives seized a quantity at explosives and arrested two men on safe stealing charges after patrolling the…
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In the Police Court today, John Thomas Murray (27), miner, pleaded guilty to six charges preferred against him; three for illegally using motor cars, two for maliciously damaging property of the Police Department, and one for driving without a licence…
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In the Licensing Court today, before Mr. A. N. Bott, S.M., the district licensing inspector (Inspector J. Canning) presented his…
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Bernard Patrick Cotterill and his mother, Sarah Mary Cotterill, of 244 Crystal Lane, who were both charged with having lived in unclean premises at 244 Crystal Lane, were convicted by Mr. A. N…
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Melbourne.—While being questioned by the police about shots fired at a watchman on New Year's Day, a man dived into the Yarra…
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Melbourne. — An 18-year-old youth was arrested at an airline office last night as he was buying a ticket for Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Shoot In Cemetery
Sydney. — Railway detectives fired two shots in Rookwood Cemetery early on Tuesday at two men who were carrying copper…
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London, January 12.—Norman Oldfield, who was sentenced to 18 months' gaol after conviction at the Old Bailey for armed robbery in London, was said to have married an Italian countess while a…
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Word has been received by Sgt. E. Richards (superintendent of the Citizens-Police Boys' Club) that the Broken Hill party arrived…
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Thieves who entered Grant's Iceworks, Oxide Street, last night were disturbed and escaped. Entrance to the premises was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Union Leaders Fight Police
Melbourne.—Eight trade union leaders, who had been suspended from the Trades Hall Council, fought a way through the police…
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A 17-year-old youth, who was charged with being a neglected child and with also being drunk in Argent Street last night, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court Sequel to Damaged Pipeline Boys on Probation
Three lads, aged 13, 14 and 14 years, who damaged the Stephens Creek-Broken Hill main pipeline on December 11 by firing a 303 [?] at the main and…
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