Attack on U.S. Serviceman. Youths Sent to Gaol. Sydney
George Frederick Mcllveen (19), of the R.A.A.F., and William Underwood (16) were severely castigated by Judge Markell at the Quarter Sessions to-day…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Alleged Confession of Murder
GRENFELL Monday.—Thomas Mertin Dows (27) had made a written statement that he had killed Joan Minis Jenkine (20)…
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Declaring that General Eisenhower has completed preparations for a general offensive, the German newsagency's commentator, Guenther Weber, says a battle involving 5,000,000 men will flare up on the western…
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Police in Grenfell yesterday arrested a man and charged him with the murder of Joan Minnie Jenkins, 20, at the Royal Hotel in Moree on…
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SYDNEY, Monday — Although NSW evidence has been completed the Arbitration Court will probably sit in Newcastle, to hear…
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WAGGA WAGGA Tuesday—Mrs. Elise Hoare has been arrested by the police on a charge of murdering her husband Victor…
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Mrs. Elsie Hoare has been arrested by the police on a charge of having murdered her husband, Victor Hoare (50), who was shot dead yesterday at…
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NEWCASTLE Tuesday. — Roy Cyril Holmes (16), labourer, for whom Mr. P. Murray, of Maitland, appeared, pleaded guilty in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cessnock Police Court. To-day's Sitting. (Before Mr. A. E. Hodgson, Pm.,). Drove Vehicle Without Light
Edward Toner pleaded guilty to having driven a horse drawn vehicle without a lighted lamp. He was fined £2, with 5/6 costs…
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MELBOURNE Wed.—Thomas Henry Kirwin (55), and his son, Henry Thomas Kirwin, were charged with having murdered…
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Thomas Henry Kirwin, 55, and his son, Henry Thomas Kirwin, were charged at Melbourne to-day with having murdered Francis Frederick…
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American troops advancing from the south in a drive towards the Saar Basin are now only two miles from the forlress city of Metz, reports a correspondent at the United States Third Army headquarters. Pouilly, two and a half miles south from Metz,…
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SYDNEY Wednesday.— when the Sydney sittings of the High Court opener Sir Owen Dixon was welcomed bank to the Bench…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Directors Criticised For Putting Police on Stockowners Deputation To P. P. Board Voices Opinions On Permit Position Likelihood of Anomaly Being Overcome
Members of a deputation appointed from a meeting of the local branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council yesterday criticised directors of Denman-Singleton Pastures Protection Board for their action in instructing the police to see that the…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Having pleaded guilty in the Quarter Sessions to-day to receiving a portion of goods, valued at £500,…
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LONDON Nov. 16—In the little Dutch town of Heusden. on the Maas river, the Germans deliberately. murdered 135-men,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Out Assault On Budapest Red Lender Throws In More Troops And Tanks Australian Associated Press
LONDON Nov. 17—Marshal Malmovsky is about to give his full attention to an all-out assault on Budapest. This is agreed between the Moscow correspondents. Reuter’s Moscow representative said front line…
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William Leonard Burston (22), laber, and who is a discharged soldier; Michael Micheal (19), soldier, and William Leacey (20), laborer,…
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CESSNOCK Tuesday — David Todd was charged at the Cessnock Court to-day with having, on or about June 18, 1944, at…
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At the Cessnock Police Court this morning, before Mr. A. E. Hodgson, P.M., David Todd was charged with…
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