Charged Too Much for Fruit
SINGLETON, Wednesday. — Eric Madden, of John-st., Singleton was fined £3, with £2/10/ court costs and £1/1/ witnesses…
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Courts & crime, 1947
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Albania Charged With Mining Corfu Channel
LAKE SUCCESS (New York), February 19.—Sir Alexander Cardigan opened in the United Nations Security Council Britain’s case against Albania on charges of Mining the Corfu Channel and requested that the Council keep watch over the case until it is settled…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Men Escape From Police Incident at Redfern
Two men who were to have appeared at Redfern Police Court to-day on charges of breaking and entering, escaped…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Strong opposition to the claim by several unions for penalty rates for week-end work was expressed on behalf of employers in the Arbitration Court yesterday…
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The two men who escaped from a police van at on Wednesday were recaptured on Wednesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court Sitting Was Brief
Yesterday's sitting of the local court was the briefest for a very long time. Everything was completed inside five minutes, most of…
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SINGLETON, Friday. — Court sitting at Singleton yesterday was the shortest on record for many months. It lasted exactly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →15 Killed When Police Fire on Villagers
BALURGHAT (North Bengal), February 21.—Police firing on villagers armed with spears, bows and arrows, brickbats, and lathis killed 15 people and wounded several others. The police arrived in four lorries to arrest six persons,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court House Hotel New Refrigeration Installed
Mr. M. J. Quinn, proprietor of the Court House Hotel, has completed the installation of a cellar refrigeration system which will ensure an even…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Conflicting Statements to Police. Darlinghurst Shooting Victim Dies. Sydney
George Thomas Coghlan (39), died in hospital to-day from a wound received when shot in Barcom Avenue, Darllnghurst, on Monday night. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Federal Court Local Traders Fined for Over-charging
At Scone Court House on Tuesday morning last, Mr. R. C. Atkinson, P.M., occupied the Bench at a sitting of the Special Federal Court, when a number of local business people faced charges arising out of investigations by officers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Suspension or Cancellation of Hotel License Recommended Adjournment Granted in Licensing Court
Local licensing Inspector (Sgt. Dwyer) yesterday recommended to the local licensing court that the license of the Terminus…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Woman Charged With Murder
SYDNEY: A woman has been arrested and charged with the murder of Thomas George Coghlan, 39, who was shot in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Search Harbour for Two Men
SYDNEY, Saturday. — Water police are searching the harbour off Garden Island following a report that two men were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Showground Melee at Newcastle Crowd Of 400 Involved In Struggle Between Police And Rioters
NEWCASTLE, Saturday—Developing from a dispute between the manager of a liquor booth and two men a disturbance at Newcastle show ground late yesterday afternoon involved nearly 400 men, women and children…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dead Man Identified by Fingerprints Aged Victim of Murder Known to Hunter Valley Police
Fingerprints were used by the C.I.B. to identify an elderly swagman whose brutally-murdered body was found on the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.— Silla Agnes Stratford (37), m again refused tall when remanded at the Central Cour to-day until March 12 on a…
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SYDNEY, Monday—Allan Hugh William (39) a tram driver collapsed groaning in from of [?] dock at the central court to-day…
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Horace Dare, 26, labourer, was fined £2 at West Maitland Court to-day for having used Insulting words to Sergeant M. Spelman…
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NEWCASTLE: The death occurred in the Maitland Hospital on Saturday of Mr. G. (Jeffrey, [?] Smith-street, Merewether He was…
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