Police Raid Fashionable Opium Den
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 3
PARIS, January 22.—The story of a French Countess’s opium den in the Bois de Boulogne, furnished in Oriental fashion and linked with drug sellers in Marseilles, was disposed by the police when they announced the closing of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Fire on Students at Calcutta
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 3
CALCUTTA, January 22.—After repeated use of tear gas and bamboo stick charges had failed to stop students demonstrating in favor of Indo-China nationalist, the police opened five yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Opera Composer Going Before Court
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 2
Richard Strauss, the famous composer of the opera "Der Rosenkavalier," who is now an Austrian citizen, will appear before the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nine Months’ Gaol For Theft
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 5
NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—Convicted in Newcastle Police Court to-day of having stolen £43 from Leonard Moy on December 5…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brutal Guards Sentenced
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 5
BERLIN, Jan. 23. — Fifteen guards from the notorious Flossenburg concentration camp have been sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavily Fined for Assault
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 5
KURRI KURRI: Robert Francis Banks, of Millfield-street, Splon Kop, Pelaw Main, proceeded against Neville Smith, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier Hanged for Murder
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1947 · page 1
BERLIN, Jan. 23.—The first British soldier to be executed [?]verseas since the end of the war is an RASC driver, F. J. Upson,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scone Police Court
The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2
Mr. M. J. D. Austin, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Scone Police Court on Wednesday last. Police v. Stanley, Dodds, who pleaded guilty to a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Theft
Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 4
SYDNEY, Friday.—Charged with having stolen £1314/0/1 from the Australian Workers’ Union between January, 1941, and December, 1944…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Charged With Stabbing
Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1
SYDNEY, Friday.—Grace Mary Rou[?] 22, was demanded at Newtown Court until February 14, on a charge of having maliciously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Contractors Charged with Conspiracy
Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 3
WASHINGTON, January 24.—A Federal Grand Jury, has indicted a former member of Congress and three war contractors on charges of conspiring to defraud the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault at Kurri Man Heavily Fined
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 7
At Kurri Police Court yesterday, before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P. M., Robert Francis Banks, of Millfield…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Contractors Charged. Alleged Conspiracy. Washington
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1
The Attorney-General, Mr. Clark, has announced that the Federal Grand Jury has indicted ex-Representative Andrew May, Democrat (Kentucky)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Licensing Court
The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2
In the Licensing Court, there was no public objection to an application by Thomas Woodhead Hudson for the transfer of the license…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Constables to Receive Rise
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2
Under a new award announced this week, police constables receive a rise of £50 a year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Order Removal Of Referendum Posters
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 7
Yesterday, referendum posters in hotels were ordered to be removed by the police…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Traffic Regulations Help the Police—and Yourselves
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2
During the war years motor traffic regulations were relaxed. There was a shortage of police officers and a lesser number of vehicles on the road…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder in Arnhem Land Sordid Story Told by Patrol Officer
Singleton Argus · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1
The cold-blooded murder of an aboriginal and the stabbing of another has been reported to the police by Mr. Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Open Eire When Hindus And Moslems Clash
Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 1
CALCUTTA, January 24—Several deaths are included in the mounting lists of casualties reported as a result of the latest outbreak of rioting and communal disturbances in the Bombay and Calcutta areas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Trouble in Bombay Police Rushed to Dispel Rioting
Singleton Argus · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 5
Troops in battle kit were sent to key points in Bombay yesterday to help police maintain order when communal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →