Italian Prisoner Jumped From Speeding Train Arrest Effected by Singleton Police
While the Glen Innes mail was speeding between Singleton and Whittingham shortly after 4 a.m. yesterday, an…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Police at Central Railway
Special police were drafted for duty at the Central Railway Statio nto-day to control holiday crowds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Theft of Petrol
NEWCASTLE Mon.— Charged in the police court to-day with having stolen 60 gallons of petrol, property of the Defence…
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NEWCASTLE Tues.—A man locked up last night on a charge of drunkenness was assaulted in a cell at Newcastle police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Swoop on Back-yard "Group" Beer Transaction
Working men who had clubbed together to buy two nine-gallon kegs of beer were hostile about going short of their quota when it was confiscated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Theft of £118 Reported
Mr. William Masterson, of East Greta, reported to Wert Maitland police that a sum of £118 in notes had been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charged with Shooting Bail Refused
Bail was refused Robert Martin Duggen, 29, glass polisher, when he was remanded at Paddington Court to-day until November 22 on a charge…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sentenced for Bigamy Five Women in Soldier's Life
Five women were stated to have figured in the life of John Hamilton, 37, soldier, who was sentenced by Mr Justice Philp in Brisbane to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comment on High Court Decision
Commenting on the High court’s decision in Melbourne yesterday, upsetting an award ring wage increases to certain…
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SYDNEY Thurs.—For haying purchased women’s clothing without surrendering 1704 .coupons at. the time of the transaction,…
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BRISBANE Thurs. — Aircraftman Robin Adair, 19, RAAF, was arrested in Brisbane last night on a charge of having wilfully…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Co-Operative Society s Tax Liability Full Court Decision
SYDNEY Thurs.—A taxation . decided by the State Full, Court yesterday turned upon the; question whether butter is an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Dog Found Pensioner
SYDNEY Friday.— The police dog, Zoe. found an old-age pensioner. Thomas Henloo, 80, who been lost in the scrub near…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Five Hotels Sufficient for Town After War Opinion of Police Sergeant Comments in Quarterly Licensing Court
In the local quarterly Licensing Court yesterday, Sergt. J. Dwyer stated that although it was not for him to say, he considered that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Soldiers Charged
Leonard Joseph Dessey, Harry Bear and William Cecil Barber, soldiers, were charged before Mr. W. A. Ross, JP, at West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Solid Sheets of Flame Precede Assault Canadians Storm Across The Leopold Canal(AUSTRALIAN Associated Press)
LONDON Oct 6—Canadian assault troops’ stormed across, the Leopold Canal before dawn on Thursday behind colid sheets of flame says Reuter’s correspondent with the Canadians…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deserter Gets Two Years Gaol
Sentence of two years' hard labour for desertion was imposed on a New Zealand soldier who deserted in the Middle East and, after a series of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Criminal Assault on Child Death of Victim
Janice Maree Paul (7), of Moonee Ponds (Vic.), who was attacked and criminally assaulted on Wednesday, died in the Children's Hospital on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Assault East From Aachen Garrison of Town Almost Sealed Off
The American First Army launched a new assault east from Aachen at dawn yesterday in a north-westerly direction, to link up with troops who breached the Siegfried Line between Markstein and Geilenkirschen. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Germany Hammered From the Air Assault By More Than 5000 Planes
Over 5000 British and American warplanes, of which 3000 were heavy bombers, hammered Germany on Saturday in the most…
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