Fists Flew As Police Burst in
SYDNEY, Thurs.—Racing 200 miles from Sydney last night to a country town, a police squad raided an alleged gaming place and…
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Courts & crime, 1947
1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 58
Minister Defends 40 Week Bill “Court Has Approved Princip[?]
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The fed that the Feder[?] Court in October last had approved the principle of a standard 40-hour working week was emphasised by the Stats Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr. Hamilton Knight)…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Further delay has occurred in the hearing of the 40-hour week application before the Federal Arbitration Court. There is dissension among the Judges on whether this…
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MELBOURNE, Friday Chan Kwan (31), one of the two Chinese charged with the murder of Yueng Shing, and the wounding of Alfred Sydney Pack (46) in a taxi on January 29, was found hanged in his cell at Pentridge gaol…
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Chan Kwan (31), one of two Chinese charged with the murder of Yam Yeong Shing and the wounding of Albert Sydney Pack…
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DARWIN: Eric William Jackson, ganger, was sentenced to three months’ gaol at Darwin for having assaulted Jack Brumby,…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.—Kevin John Sallgari, 21, presser’s assistant, appeared in court charged with the murder of Alice Kathleen O’Neill,…
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Witness: I was walking up the street with my girl friend, reading a book. Br. Bivens: What…
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Horrors of the Burma-Thailand railway, the inhuman and savage treatment of Australian and Allied prisoners of war, combined to make an absorbingly interesting yet terrifying statement given by Lieut.-Col. C. R. E. Jennings, in an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sale of Motor Car. Case in Small Debts Court
In the Small Debts Court on Wednesday, Victor Miller sued Vincent Henry Martin for the payment of £30, alleged to be due for the purchase of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Licence of Belford Wine Shop Transferred Application Before Local Court
There was no objection yesterday to transfer of the licence of Bellford wine shop, only routine factors' being dealt with by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →80 Applications for a House. House Shortage Mentioned in Court
It was stated by a defendant in a case for recovery of possession of a cottage that one local house agent had remarked that 80 people…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Racing Sidelights Good Idea Should Win Engaged in Denham Court HandiCap
Almost unheard of at Randwick is an eight event programme, but that is just the number of races to be decided at headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Appeal in Grenfell Murder Case
Frederick Lincoln McDermott, 38, has appealed against his conviction and sentence of death for the murder of William Henry Layers, garage…
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Victor William Lye, 22, labourer, was charged at West Maitland court yesterday afternoon with having, at Farley, on or…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—In his address to the jury, Mr. T. McLaughlin put forward the theory that killing of Bronia Mary Armstrong was the work of two men. Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown, 49, accountant, is charged with the…
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William Robert Hartsorn was convicted on a charge of S.P. betting and fined £20 by Mr. H. Sargeson, P.M. at cesnock police Court this morning…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown, 49, accountant, was sentenced in the Supreme Court yesterday to life…
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SYDNEY, Wed. — The Full Court of Criminal Appeal to-day unanimously dismissed the appeal by former policeman,…
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LONDON, March 11.—The trial Rudolf Hoess, 47, former commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, on the charge…
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