More Trouble in Bombay Police Rushed to Dispel Rioting
Troops in battle kit were sent to key points in Bombay yesterday to help police maintain order when communal…
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Courts & crime, 1947
1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 58
Woman Acquitted Of Murder
NEW ALBANY (Indiana), Jan. 24.—A jury acquitted Mrs. Goldie Sutton, 43, of a charge of murder in the first degree by shooting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Magistrate Wore Shorts In Court
Canberra's Special Police Magistrate (Mr J. T. Goodwin) appeared ed in Canberra Poiice Court in army shorts while police officers sweltered…
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LONDON, Jan. 27.—The Yugoslav Government tent a telegram to the Security Council charging Greece with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£125 Film Theft From Footpath
Three cans of 16 millimetre film were stolen from the footpath near police headquarters in Phillip Street. Sydney, yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hair Snipper Caught Charged with Assaulting a Female
A man was detected in the Embassy Theatre. Katoomba, snipping hair from girls sitting in front of him…
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SYDNEY: Two hundred and seven persons were charged with drunkenness in Central Police Court yesterday. There were 200…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Years’ Gaol For Espionage
OTTAWA, Jan. 28. — In the County Court Judge McDougall sentenced Dr. Henry Harris, a Toronto optometrist,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bus Driver Charged Did Not Give Way
Kennedy Stephenson was charged at Cessnock Police Court this morning with failing to give way to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pay Rise Brings Police Recruits
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A police officer stated that since the rise in police pay, daily applications to join the force had more than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Murder Charge Against Former Minister of N.S.W.
LONDON, January 28.—A bank clerk told the West London police court, when the hearing of the charges of murder against former N.S.W. Minister, Thomas John Ley, and Lawrence John Smith, was resumed, that certain sums of money were withdrawn from Ley’s account in the Midland Bank during N ovember and December…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ultimatum to Kidnappers Terrorist Outrages in Palestine. Judge Kidnapped While Presiding at Court. JERUSALEM
The High Commissioner, General Cunningham, summoned Mrs. Golda Myerson, of the Jewish executive, and Israel Lokach, Mayor of Tel-Aviv, and gave them an ultimatum than unless Major Collins and Judge Windham, who had been kidnapped, are returned…
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Remanded at Kogarah police court on Monday on a charge of having wounded his wife with intent to murder her, Austin Arnold Rhoden,z…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Protest Against “Ghastly” Murder
BELGRADE, January 31.—The Foretign Office announced that a Note has been sent to Britain protesting against the “ghastly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →5600 Traders Charged With Prices Breaches
Assistant-Prices Commissioner (Mr. Williamson) said in Canberra that 5600 traders had been charged with breaches of prices regulations…
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WASHINGTON—(Associated Press)— Public Health Service has reported there were nearly twice as many suicides as homicides…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man On Attempted Murder Charge Found Dead in Cell
Austin Arnold Rhoden, who was charged on Satur-day with having wounded his wife with intent to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Naval Escapees Caught at Ravensworth Capture By Muswellbrook Police
Two of the five men who escaped from Balmoral (Sydney) Naval Detention Camp on Monday afternoon were recaptured…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Were Glad to See Their Captors Naval Ratings. Recaptured by Muswellbrook Police
Two of the five R.N. ratings who escaped from the naval gaol at Balmoral (Sydney) early in the week were re-captured near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local and General News Police to Be Asked to Keep Cyclists Off Footpaths
It was reported to this week's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce that no reply had yet been received from the police relative to…
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