Maltese Charged with Reason
LONDON April 23.âNine Maltese British subjects, including a Franciscan Monk. were brought by air from Italy last Thursday,…
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Courts & crime, 1946
1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 77
Armed Assault on N.z. Zoo
WELLINGTON .(NZ) Tuesday. —Horses, goats and even one of the keepers at Wellington Zoo were singled out as targets by…
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SHANGHAI April 23.—Chu Min Yi, puppet Foreign Minister in the Japanese sponsored Nanking Government has been sentenced to death for treason. Madame Wang Ching Wei, wife of the puppet…
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SHANGHAI April 22.—Major. General Masataka Kaburagi, former Chief of Staff of the Japanese 34th Army, and four subordinate…
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NEW YORK April 23.— Anna Callahan, elderly spinster, was sentenced to five years gaol for embezzling 149,000 dollars from…
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MILAN April 23.—A fierce gun battle at San Vittore gaol is still raging between the mutinous inmates and the police and regular troops who are besieging the prison. One person was killed and 24 are thus far reported…
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BATAVIA April 24. — Indonesian Republican forces in the hills of, western Java are reported to be closing in on the…
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BOMBAY, April 23. — About 50 policemen went on strike at Munshiganl In Bengal. They are demanding monthly basic pay…
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LONDON April. 24.—Three thousand rioting prisoners in the San Vittore gaol, at Milan, who have sworn to resist to the death, last night threatened to blow their way out of the built-scarred prison by using explosives against the tank…
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SYDNEY Thurs.—Elsie Stewart (21) was remanded at, the Central Court until May 2 on charge of stealing £458/17/6…
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NEWCASTLE.— “Although the Legislature decrees that it be done.[ do not think it a fit and proper thing to send a man to…
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BATAVIA April 25—It is now. considered certain that 16 Dutchmen, whom the Indonesians arrested last…
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SINGLETON. Thursday.—Mr. Albert Carter, ex-Sergeant of the N.S.W Police Force died at Ashfield Convalescent Home. at…
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PITTSBURGH April 25.—Mrs. William Thompson was granted a divorce from her sergeant husband, who fathered the quadruplets…
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NUREMBERG April 25.—Former member of the Gestapo and leader of the bomb plot against Hitler in July, 1944, Dr. Hans Gisevius, branded Goering as father of the Gestapo and originator the system of poIitical murder…
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At the Police Court, before a local Bench, Cecil Stanley Miller (68), drover, was fined 10/- for drunkenness and £3 for indecent behaviour…
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NEWCASTLE Friday. — Pleading guilty in the police court today to two charges of theft, Garnet Paul Joseph Callaghan (31),…
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SHANGHAI April 26.— Major Chozo Watsuo, who arranged a sham court for the execution of 14 American…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Thomas Cox (27) was sentenced to six months’ hard labour at Redfern Police Court today for…
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JERUSALEM April 26—A [?] explosion was heard when 40 armed Jews attacked a police station between Tel Avis and…
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