“Court Governs Australia” Referendum Discussed By Mr. James, M.H.R.
“The High Court of Australia governments Australia ” said Mr. Rowley James, MHR, in the course of an address on the forthcoming…
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Courts & crime, 1946
1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 77
Sequel to Clothes Stealing Case
The sequel to a ruse two weeks ago when a man gained possession of a suit of clothes and a sum of money belonging to Mr. Trevor Murray on…
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A London wife's infidelity was no excuse for murder was the ruling given by the Court of Criminal Appeal…
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Arising out of the death of Miss Astrid Wagstaff and injury to her sister on Saturday, when a car crashed into a stationary lorry on…
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At the Central Police Court to-day, William John Holloway (26), chef, and John Ottaway Temple (24), taxi driver, were remanded until May 9,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — A police cordon has been thrown around the Como area and nearly 200 police are systematically probing rugged country in the district for tbe man, who, in 30 minutes last flight, held up two men and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Politics Should Be No Bar To Judiciary Mr. Menzies Defends High Court Judges
CANBERRA, Thursday—Assuming that a man had great technical skill and balanced judgment, political activity should not be a bar to his appointment as a High Court Judge, said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Menzies)…
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Mr. E. A. Hodgson, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Scone Police Court on Wednesday last. Police v. Hubert James Jones, who pleaded guilty to stealing, on or about…
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MILAN, April 11.—An Allied Tribunal sentenced to death Col. Paolo Turco. former commandant a prisoner of war camp, who…
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Charged with having on April. 10 assaulted Detective Sergeant D. G. Sutherland in the execution of his duty, used indecent…
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John Thomas Lawson, 19, labourer, was charged at West Maitland Court with having at West Maitland, on April 10, stolen a…
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"It is in the highest degree anomalous that, in a community which shuts away lepers and typhoid carriers and other sources of physical…
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Pound guilty on 11 charges of having trafficked in Allied Works Council refrigerators, John Clyde Jones (45) was at Melbourne…
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At the Police Court, yesterday, Kenneth Malcolm Smith was sentenced to one month's imprisonment on a charge of stealing £3 in…
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SYDNEY: Friday.—The police this morning arrested a man and charged him with vagrancy. He will be placed in a line-up…
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At the Police Court yesterday, Sergeant E. S. Fairlamb proceeded against Vincent Henry Martin, licencee of the Shamrock Hotel,…
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OTTAWA, April 13. — Emma Wolkin, giving evidence before being sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment on…
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A police auction sale of unclaimed goods, will be held at West Maitland Police. Station on Saturday, May 4, at 10 a.m. Goods…
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CANBERRA Sat.—The Chief Justice of Queensland (Sir William Webb), who has been appointed to the High Court Bench,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Horrors of Nazi Prison Camps 65,000 Died At Mauthausen Himmler’s Deputy Charged With Long List of Crimes (A.A.P. Service)
NUREMBERG April 13.—At the war criminal trials yesterday, goring a statement, Franz Ziereis, commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp, who was shot while attempting to escape when the United States troops liberated the camp, said that 65,000…
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