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Courts & crime, 1946

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Theft Charge At Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 1

NEWCASTLE Monday.— Ronald Louis Pears (19) seaman, pleaded guilty in the Police Court to-day to [?] of £5 in money…

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Murder of Australian Soldiers Accused Japs Ordered to Stand in Silence

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 2

Five Japanese officers accused of murdering Australian soldiers were ordered to stand in silence for their victims at Ambon…

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Collieries Staffs’ Association Considers High Court Decision

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 2

A meeting of the State Council of the Australian Collieries Staffs Association, held at Miss Edwards’ rooms, High-st., on…

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Safe-stealing Charge

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 4

KEMPSEY Tuesday — A man and two youths have been arrested following the the of a safe from the garage of A. Gibson and…

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Refused Bail on Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY Tuesday — Ball was refused when Edward James White (55), a labourer, was remanded at the Central police…

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Police Sergeant Retiring

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

First class Sergeant William J, McPLerson, formerly of Maitland, but who has been at Lismore since 1935, has commenced…

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Police Officials Resign

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

Five well-known Sydney detectives force. resigned from the N.S.W. police force. Two detective sergeants attached to the C.L.B. have also…

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Egypt and the Police , Conference

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

CAIRO Jan 8 —The Premier, Notashy Pasha, informed the Chamber of Deputies that he had Instructed Badaway Pasha,…

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Judges and Police Officials Dismissed. Berlin

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

The Allied komandantura lias announced the dismissal of two Berlin Superior Court Judges and two high police officials because of their Nazi…

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Fingerprint Photo Sent by Radio Revolutionising Police Work Australian Associated Press

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 3

LONDON, January 8.—For the first time a photograph of fingerprints! has been successfully transmitted from the British police force to a police forces aboard by radio. Scotland and Yard sent it through…

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Young Man Charged Murder Of Mrs. Jean Wicks

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY Wednesday.— Douglas Ronald Morris(26), a journalist was charged at the Central Police court to-day with having murdered Mrs. Jean Wicks a York-st tobacco kiosk proprietrees on january 2…

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Man Charged with Kiosk Murder Remanded Without Bail

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 2

Douglas Ronald Morris (26), journalist, was charged at the Central Police Court, Sydney, today, with having murdered Mrs…

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Terrorists Sentenced To Death

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

BERLIN Jan 9.— A Red Army court martial sentenced to death 11 members of a gang which terrorised the…

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Terrorist Gang Sentenced To Death

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 2

A Red Army court at Berlin sentenced to death 11 members of a gang which terrorised the neighbourhood of Eberswalde, wearing Russian…

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Swam River Twice to Evade Police

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 1

A youth swam the Macleay River twice in an effort to evade arrest on cattle-stealing charges. The river is 100 yards wide, and he was fully…

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Police Force Resignations Premier Calls For Report

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY Wednesday.— The premier (Mr. McKell) said he had called for a comprehensive report on the circumstances…

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Resignations From Police Force

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Thursday.—The Premier (Mr. McKell), who is head of the State police force, said resignations from the NSW police…

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U.s. Military Court Tries [?] General

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1946 · page 3

Lieut.-General Tomoyuki Yamashita ([?] left), supreme commander of the Japanese forces in the [?]illippine, who was convicted by a U.S. military court on [?]arges that he was responsible for the atrocities committed a [?] Allied nationals…

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An Unprovoked Assault Police Searching for Assailant

Singleton Argus · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 4

Police are searching for a man who made a vicious, unprovoked assault on a couple in Port Macquarie on Saturday night…

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Murder Conference

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 6

Takauwa decided to kill the survivors. He called a conference and discussed the method. Captain Watanabe, Sergeant-Majors Tiuji…

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