Youth Charged with Murder. Melbourne Inquest. Melbourne
The inquest was opened to-day into the deaths of Roy Andrew Pugh (22), labourer, of Collingwood, and Harry Edgar Nicholls (43), taxi driver, of…
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Courts & crime, 1944
1,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 49 of 51
Charged With Having Cigarettes in Possession
At Cessnock Police Court last Tuesday afternoon, Norman Brown, taxi driver, was charged with having 519…
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Ronald Herbert Sidebottom (22) appeared at the Police Court this morning on a charge of having stolen £20 from a home in Curlewis. Defendant…
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"It seems extremely difficult for a husband to convince his wife the is speaking the truth." "When I obeyed my wife and came…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Essay Winners
Local prize winners in the New South Wales Police Department essay competition, open to students at all schools…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Short Road Opened to Vienna Marshal Malinovsky's Assault
Marshal Malinovsky's assault on both sides of Budapest has burst open the short road to Vienna, says Renter's Moscow correspondent. Red Army columns moving towards Budapest from…
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MELBOURNE Monday.—Darrell Ainslie Sutton (19), seaman, of Stockton, NSW, was charged to-day with having murdered Iris…
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Ronald Eastwood, 19, stevedore, was committed for trial at Melbourne on a charge of murdering I Harry Edgar NichoLs, 43, taxi-driver,…
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A lad was charged at Cessnock Police Court this morning with stealing a number of pigeons. Sergeant Booth said on about…
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NEWCASTLE Tuesday—Leonard Charles Ward (33), shunter, was charged in the Police Court to-day with having in a-house at…
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MOREE Tuesday.—The inquest was opened to-day into the death of Joan Minnie Jenkins, 20 years old waitress, who was found with…
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NEWCASTLE Tuesday—When revising the Jury Roll to day, Mr., Carr-Boyd, SM, said the question had been raised as to police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Terrible Toll of Nazi Forces Grim Horrors of Final Assault on Budapest Australian Associated Press
LONDON, December 11.—Under a lowering pall of smoke, Budapest experiencing the last grim horrors of the final assault, says a Moscow correspondent. Marshal Malinovsky’s units are seven miles from the capital…
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SYDNEY Wed — Nancy O’ Neill, 36, was remanded until December 18 when charged in the city Court with having between…
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A truck being driven towards Sydney was stopped by police outside Lithgow on December 1, and 93 dozen bottles of beer, 5…
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A tomahawk, sulky spring, and shinging hammer were produced in court at Moree to-day, when the Coroner (Mr. Doyle J resumed the…
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“It’s hard to discriminate, for all did great work and I would like to thank all of them. Sergt. W. J. J. Wright of the West…
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NEWCASTLE, Thursday. — For theft of two watches, Ernest Robert Heap (24), labourer, was in the police court to-day,…
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MELBOURNE Thursday — Roy[?] Marley, 35, of Richmond, was acquitted at the Criminal Court on a charge of having murdered…
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Thomas Martin Dowe, 28, textile worker, of St. Peters, was committed for trial by the Mores Coroner to-day on a charge of…
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