Posed As Airman "Despicable All Through" Magistrate's Scorn
At the Kempsey Police Court on Wednesday there wag unfolded a tale of law-breaking the equal of which is rarely met with…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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1500 Miles From Tokio U.S. Assault Troops In Landings
Strong Pacific forces of United States assault troops, following intensive bombardment of Saipan, Tinian, Pagan, Guam,…
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SYDNEY Sat. — Albert William Raymond Wynack, 40 letter-carrior, of Victoria-street, Burwood, was sentenced in the Quarter…
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Servant W. Kelly, of West Maitland police, has been notified of his transfer to Gosford. Constable Rosted, of Aberdeen,…
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Albert William Raymond Wynack, 40, of Burwood, with 23 years' service, who had been pilfering mail for a year, was sentenced in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Magistrate to Hotelkeepers Must Provide Three Meals Daily
Hotelkeepers were required to provide accommodation and three meals a day, not merely bed and breakfast, Mr. Beavers, P.M., said in the…
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NEWCASTLE Monday—Cyril Young (27), labourer, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day to being an idle and disorderly…
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In the Juvenile Court at Adelaide three brothers of 12, 14 and 15, charged with having assaulted an eight-year-old boy at their home on…
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The Swiss newspaper "Gazette de Lausanne" has published details of the execution a few weeks ago by French patriots of Major-General…
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ADELAIDE Tuesday — Following leakages of German Red Cross cigarettes and tobacco from a prisoner-of-war camp in South…
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Stanley George Senior, 29, labourer, was charged at West Maitland court to-day with having on June 19 stolen ten…
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At Cessnock Police Court this morning before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., Thomas Noel Pembleton proceeded against William Rose…
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At Cessnock Police Court this morning John Henry Field was charged with stealing an overcoat and hat, valued at £4. the…
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NEWCASTLE, Wed.—Pleading guilty in the police court to-day to being an idle and disorderly person with insufficient lawful…
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SINGLETON Wed.—First-class Sergeant G. H. Sewell has received notice of his transfer front Singleton to Young. He has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jap. Resistance Broken at Biak Way Open For Coastal Assault (From Our Correspondent)
Japanese resistance on Biak Island, off the coast of Dutch New Guinae, has been broken, says General Mac Arthur's communique to-day. Allied forces outflanked ridges to the north, thus…
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SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA Wednesday.— Japanese resistance on Biak Island, off the coast of Dutch New Guinea, has been broken, states General MacArthur’s communique to-day. Allied forces; outflanked ridges to the…
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NEWCASTLE Thursday.—For theft of an electric motor, a light lead and a lamp holder valued £10, Thomas Arthur Graham…
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The Workers’ Compensation Commission, in the part-heard case of John Henry Rohan, shiftman, Moore-street, Cessnock,…
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In the past it has been the practice for a party of citizens from the coal, fields to journey to Maitland Gaol on a Sunday to stage a concert for the…
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