Congestion in Sydney Court
SYDNEY Tuesday—The Minister for Justice (Mr. Downing) announced to-day that a number of country magistrates will sit on…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Art Critics Crowd Equity Court
SYDNEY, Tuesday — Artists and art critics again formed a large portion of the big crows that filled the Equity Court this…
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Speaking in the Legislative Assembly, Mr. R. S. Vincent (CP., Raleigh) protested emphatically against the withdrawal of police from country…
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William John Hugh Foye, 19, was charged in the Lithgow Police Court with having murdered Doris Winifred Shorney, 20. He was remanded…
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Mrs. Mary Anne Lumsden, Neath Street Pelaw Main claimed compensation for the death of her husband, Thomas Tyrple Lumsden, from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Denial Of Discontent Amongst Police
Statements that the Victorian police force was seething with discontent were unjustified, said the Commissioner (Mr A. M. Duncan),…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ancient Order of Foresters. Court Cessnock
The grand annual social of the Ancient Order of Foresters Court Cessnock was held in the Buffaloe Temple, Cessnock, to celebrate a most…
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LONDON, Oct. 27—Reuter’s Paris representative says that the Ass[?] Court Sentenced M, Feligines, who…
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The State Government has offered a reward of £200 for a solution of the murder of Joan Minnie Jenkins at Moree…
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PARIS Oct. 30.—The Assize Court in Paris sentenced Stephen Lausanne, 72, to 40 years’ imprisonment. He was collaborationist…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tail Lights. Police Warning
The local police have asked us to direct attention of drivers of motor vehicles to the necessity of observing the regulations with regard to tail lights…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Cessnock Court To-day
When there is a fifth Tuesday in the month, there is no Court at Cessnock. To-day being the fifth Tuesday in October, there was no sitting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →House Blown Up After Police Inspection. Sensational Incident at Menai. Widespread Search for Man. Sydney
Gelignite is believed to have been used to blow up a house at Menai, near Sutherland, to-day, shortly after police had called at the premises to…
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NEWCASTLE Wednesday.—On October 3 Joseph Thomas Jones left suitcase containing clothing in a bus at Carrington Joseph…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Barber Sentenced For Receiving
SYDNEY Wednesday—Thomas Simpson, alias Thomas Francis Jacobs, of Coogee, was sentenced in the Quarter Sessions to 1[?]…
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NEWCASTLE Wednesday. — Amos McTaggart (39) labourer, was sentenced in the police court to-day to a month’s imprisonment…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Special Court Held at Doctor’s Bedside Two Men Charged With intent To Murder
SYDNEY Thursday—After two men had been charged with intent to murder, a special court was held St the bedside of Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones, who was lying critically ill in St. Vincent’s Hospital with a bullet wound in his right lung…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pleaded Guilty To Assault
NEWCASTLE, Friday. — Sid Elias, of Cooke’s Hill, was fined £5 with £4/6/6 costs, in the Summons Court to-day, for…
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At the Central Police Court, Sydney, yesterday, Clifford Tasman Thompson (32), engineer, and Lesley Dunn (38), a clerk, were remanded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nine-year-old on Murder Charge
A 9-year-old boy, Geoffrey Charles Clay, of Nprth Carlton, was committed for trial yesterday by the Melbourne coroner on a charge of…
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