Police Find Brewster
Melbourne.—Robert Brewster, chief Crown witness in the tommygun shooting case, was found by the police in a raid on a house at…
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Courts & crime, 1950
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15 Years Imprisonment for "Spies" Sentences Of Hungarian Court Announced
Budapest, February 21.—A Hungarian Court today sentenced an American businessman, Robert Voegler (38) to 15 years imprisonment on charges of espionage and sabotage to which he pleaded guilty. Edgar Sanders, a 46 years old…
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Melbourne. February 21.—Olaf Karl Kharisen (53) was committed for trial on a charge of murder at the Coroner's Court today. Kharlsen appeared at the…
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Melbourne.—Comic Court worked on the outside of Royal Oak and defeated him over seven furlongs in 1.29¾ on the steeplechase grass at Caulfield today. They were on the rails and went the first five furlongs at a solid pace, recording 1.3½. Suffuse was responsible for a…
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Sydney. February 22.—The Minister of Justice (Mr. Downing) announced today that Mr. G. J. J. O'Sullivan has been appointed a District Court Judge from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Find Missing Witness In Tommy gun Shooting Case
Melbourne February 22.—The main witness in the tommygun shooting case, Robert Brewster, was found by the police when they raided a house at Ormond…
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CHIEF WITNESS in the Hutt Street murder case, Mrs. Lily May King, 31, egg tester, of Raleigh Street, Flinders Park, being escorted to the Supreme Court by Det.-Sgt. G. L. Gully. Alfred Coates Griffin, of Adam Stret. Hindmarsh, was sentenced to…
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Sydney, February 22.—Nine policemen appealed today against punishments imposed on them following a departments inquiry into the the…
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Following notification received by the Deputy Town Clerk "Mr. H. C. Pearce) from the Police Department, Sydney, that permission…
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Sydney, February 24:—The State Full Court reduced the three years gaol sentence imposed on Laurence Louis Sharkey (51), general secretary of the Communist Party, to 18 months when it announced its decision today. The Chief Justice…
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Sydney. February 24.—Charged with the assault of an ex-superintendent of police, a laborer received the maximum sentence of five years gaol at the…
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New York, February 26.—Determined premeditated killing was still homicide irrespective of the motive, the Attorney-General (William Phinney) said at the…
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A man whom the police alleged struck another man over the head with a crankhandle of a motor car was remanded until March 14 when…
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Sydney. February 24.—A woman who alleged that her two nieces threw her through a door on to a concrete path breaking her arm has been awarded…
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Berne. February 26.—A military tribunal has sentenced 47 years old Swiss Army mechanic Willi Gerber to 20 years imprisonment for spying for…
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John Alfred Compton (31) was remanded until March 14. by Mr. C. K. Ward. S.M.. in the Police Court yesterday on a charge of having assaulted…
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Two hours a[?] local a[?] received news of a robbery at Railway Town yesterday a man was arrested and most of the money [?]…
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Brisbane February 27.—A remarkable claim was made in the Divorce Court today. Mrs. Maude Hold, of Miles, told the court her husband was the father…
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Sydney, February 27.—A 32 years old married woman, who was placed under a hypnotic sleep by the "Great Franquiu" early last week, was discharged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Barton Sentenced To Three Years Gaol Had Defrauded Bank Of £11,000
Sydney, February 28, — Judge Holden at the Quarter Sessions here today told a man that, not only did the public interest demand that he should be…
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