Daring Assault on Formosa and Okinawa
A Pearl Harbour communique issued by Admiral Nimitz states that Pacific Fleet carrier planes, in a daring punishing two-day…
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Courts & crime, 1945
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Shooting of Dr. Jones Four Men Charged
SYDNEY Tuesday.—Four men were, charged at the Central police court, with having attempted to murder Dr Reginald Stuart…
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SYDNEY Wed.—The police have made no progress in their search for the murderer of Maurice Joseph Haunigan in a shop in…
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Constable Rupert Keith Alexander Bodel, 41, was found guilty at Central Court yesterday on a charge of having stolen a wallet from Thomas Baker, a…
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Fines and costs totalling £61/12were imposed at the Muswellbrook Police Court yesterday. One man was fined £20 for street betting,…
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Giving evidence in the case in Sydney in which George Edger, 26, clerk, is charged with having inflicted grievous bodily harm on Clarence…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Detectives have now establish that the murderer of Maurice Joseph Hannigan was in the shop in King…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Small Debts Court
In the Small Debts Court yesterday, the case in which Leslie King (represented by Mr. E. W. Doust) sued Norman Eric Milton (represented by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shooting of Dr. Jones Dramatic Story in Court
Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones, of Bellevue Hill, told a dramatic story in Sydney Central Police Court on Wednesday of events on the night of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Final Assault for Budapest on Full-scale Russian Offensive in South Poland Australian Associated Press
LONDON, January 12.—The final assault for Budapest is on. Crack Russian storming parties were preceded by tanks on Friday rolling abreast down the city’s bread streets in long columns. Old men, women and children are moving out of liberated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Five Rail Men Charged Alleged Theft Of Beer
NEWCASTLE Mon —The nearing was continued in the police court to-day of the charge against William Claude Fren[?] (44)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Constable Shot at Blayney Man Charged with Murder
Constable Eric George Bailey, 38, of Blayney police, was shot three times in the stomach at point-blank range outside the Exchange Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Air Strike “Softens” Mandalay Preliminary To Ground Assault
COLOMBO, January 14.—Mandalay was “softened up” in a devastating raid made yesterday by the biggest concentration of heavy bombers yet assembled in that theatre as a preliminary to the 14th Army’s assault on the city…
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SYDNEY Monday.—Detectives are Inclining to the view that Les He Henry Cunningham, who committed suicide after a gun duel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Recaptured German Prisoners Two Ate Police Tomatoes
Two recaptured German prisoners, who escaped from a prisoner of war camp for officers in the Goulburn Valley, satisfied their hunger by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gun Duel Between Soldier and Police Two Detectives Shot
An hour's gun duel between Stephen Henry C[?]nningham (24), a.w.l. soldier, and police at Redfern on Saturday ended in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Husband Charged With Assault
Horace Charles McDonald pleaded guilty, at Cessnock Police Court this morning, to a charge of assaulting his wife, Gladys McDonald…
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LONDON Jan, 15—An American can court in Aachen has sentenced a member of the Nazi Party, Arthur, Brauer, Germany’s…
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Assault charges against Roy Fogg, Clyde King and Isaac Jackson were adjourned at Cessnock Police Court this morning to Tuesday next…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scone Police Court Pastures Protection Board Cases
Mr. J. McElnoy, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Scone Police Court on Wednesday last, when the Upper Hunter Pastures Protection Board proceeded against an occupier of land for failing to destroy rabbits. Another person in charge of stock was…
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