Big Increase in Gaol Terms
BRISBANE, Tuesday. — Sentences on three men of seven years’ gaol imposed on conviction at Rockhampton for…
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Courts & crime, 1947
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American Soldiers Charged With Atomic Thefts
Two United States Army sergeants have been arrested and charged with having stolen secret documents from the New Mexico atomic testing station…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday, — The New South Wale Criminal Investigation Branch has converted an RAAF ambulance into a moblie…
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The N.S.W. Criminal Investigation Branch has converted a R.A.A.F. ambulance into a mobile laboratory for scientific investigations at the scene…
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SIDNEY, Tuesday. — The State President of the RSL (Mr. Ken, Bolton) said to-day that the RSL would protest to the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.— The Premier (Mr. McGirr) said that he supported police action in declaring that clubs must not sell liquor after 6 p.m. [?] week days and not at all on Sundays…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—Percy William Weston, 63, tipstaff, had to he assisted from the police station cells to Campale court room to-day when…
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A tipstaff to Mr. Justice Clancy, of the New South Wales Supreme Court, was charged last night with murder…
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In the Fremantle Police Court, a youth who had posed as Lord Montgomery's private secretary, was remanded by Mr. Wallwork, S.M. for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →King's Cousin in Trouble Charged with Passing Bad Cheques in Washington
Lady Iris Mountbatten, who is a cousin of King George, was arrested yesterday on a fugitive warrant charging her with…
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Voteran [?] Coomunist leader General Mac Tee-fung…
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LONDON, July 17—The Hon. Lydia Noel-Buxton, 24, daughter of Lord Noel-Buxton, was sentenced to 18 months’ gaol on…
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The theft of tools and a small quantity of telephone equipment has been reported to the West Maitland police. The articles…
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WASHINGTON, July 17. — Dr. Edward Barsky, chairman of the joint anti-Fascist refuges committee, was sentenced to six…
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Erection of a garage and workshop at the Police Station, and a garage at the Sergeant's residence were included in the tender of Mr…
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Secretary of the Police Association (Mr. F. C. Laut) yesterday said he believed that Mr. Cookson, Stipendiary Magistrate, would find the…
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SINGAPORE, July 18 (A.A.P., Benter).— Detective Cecil Byrne, of the Sydney C.I.B., in the Singapore First District Court Inde[?] George…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Emperor Hereto Is Still Japanese Idol Needs Bodyguard Against “Assault Of Devotion”
OSAKA, Japan (Associated Press), — The crowd stiffens and coils like a riptide, then breaks suddenly around a gleaming maroon limousine. Once again white-helmeted American military police dash forward—to rescue the Emperor…
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A warning that civilians must not [?] with members of the provost crops [?] they were in the execution of their…
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John Woolcott Forbes, who was released from Long Bay gaol yesterday, will go back to work immediately…
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