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Courts & crime, 1946

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No Sporting Transports Without Police Protection Assaults on Conductors

Singleton Argus · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 2

Unless police protection is provided for tram men on trams and buses destined for sporting fixtures tomorrow, the men will refuse to work…

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Court Costs Aid. Public Solicitor for Petty Sessions. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 2

Amendment of the Legal Assistance Act to provire for the appearance of the public solicitor in the Courts of Petty Sessions would be announced…

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Anzac Day Marred by Drunken Brawls Ex-Servicemen Had Too Much Liquor, Police Say

Maitland Mercury · Friday 26 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY Friday.—The amount of liquor available at servicemen’s reunions and in hotels was to blame for the unusually large number of brawls that marred Anzac Day in Sydney, according to the police…

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Long Court Delay Criticised

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 27 April 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sat.—A police application to remand the three men charged with the murder of Myles Henry (“Face”) McKeown…

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Stealing Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Mon. — Hyram Price (39). fisherman, was charged in the police court today with having on April 5…

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Charged Grand Larceny

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, April 29.—William Benjamin has been arrested and charged with grand larceny. He allegedly admitted swindling…

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Police Fire on Workers

Singleton Argus · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 2

Two persons were killed and three wounded when police fired on a group of workers en route to Teheran airfield, before the arrival…

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West Maitland Court

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 2

Claude Arthur Drain. 29, quarry, man. pleaded guilty at West Maitland Court to day to having behaved in an offensive manner…

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Loud Speakers Not Popular in England Church Rector Charged

Singleton Argus · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 1

Canon Fisher Ferguson, rector of Carlton, Nottinghamshire (Eng.) was to appear before the Nottingham magistrates to answer a summons for…

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Farewell To Police Inspector Hale

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 2

Inspector P. G. Hale, who has commenced leave prior to his retirement from the police force, was farewelled at the West…

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District Court Cases Adjourned

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 3

By consent, the four cases listed for hearing at the East Maitland District Court to-day were adjourned to the next…

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Kiosk Murder Trial In Sydney Accused Challenges Seventeen Jur[?]ors

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Monday.—A plea of “Not Guilty” was entered by Douglas Ronald Morris (26), journalist, when his trial on a charge of murdering Mrs. Jeanette Wicks in a York Street tobacco kiosk on January 2 last, began at the…

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Police Fire On Workers At Teheran (A.A.P. Service)

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 April 1946 · page 1

TEHERAN April 29.—Two persons were killed and three wounded when the police fired on a group of workers en route to the Teheran airfield before the arrival of the political commission from Azerbaijan, headed by the Premier, Pishevari. The workers were going to…

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"Kiosk" Murder

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 1

Public interest in the "Kiosk" murder trial was more pronounced this morning when the hearing entered on its second day. Queues…

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Court Packed at Murder Trial Witness Admits He Told Lies At Inquest

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Tuesday.—Public interest in the kiosk murder trial was more pronounced this morning when the hearing entered on the second day. Queues began to form outside the Central Criminal…

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Kiosk Murder Trial. Second Day's Hearing. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 2

Public interest in the kiosk murder trial was more pronounced this morning, when the hearing entered on the second day. Queues began to form…

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Probable Reaction On Finding Body Prosecutor’s Query At Murder Trial

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday—What would be the attitude of a normal man when he found the murdered body of a woman with whom he had been friendly? was a quay posed by the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. R. R. Kidston, K.C.) at the…

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Extermination of Millions Concentration Camp Chief in Nuremberg Court

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 2

The man who admits ordering the killing of two and a half million people gave evidence at the war crimes trials recently…

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Parties Ordered Into Industrial Court Commission Intervenes In The Meat Strike

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 April 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY Tuesday.—Intervening in the meat strike, the State Industrial Commission to-day ordered the parties to present themselves before the Commission at 10 a.m. to-morrow…

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Alleged Wheat Theft

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 May 1946 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. — In the Police Court to-day Thomas George Ross Griffiths (28), butcher, was charged with stealing…

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