High Court Reserves O’keefe Case Judgment
MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — The Full High Court reserved judgment In the case in which Mrs. Annie Mass O’Keefe is…
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Courts & crime, 1949
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N.S.W. Police Still Seeking Missing Bank Official
CANBERRA, Wednesday — N.S.W. police were still trying to find the missing bank clerk, Ainslie St. Aubyn Kingsford, the Prime Minister, Mr. J. B. Chifley, stated in the House of Representatives…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—The State Full Court to-day upheld the appeal by the New South Wales branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League against…
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LONDON, March 3.—A doctor and his wife, and another married couple and their 18-year-old son, are now the subject of an intensive search by detectives investigating the discovery this week in a Sussex factory of what are…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Along the back of the steeplechase grass at Randwick this morning, Skip Court was restricted to a sharp two furlongs sprint in 25 seconds. Caruso was hard held throughout half a mile in 25¼…
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Saying that he felt there was a reasonable doubt and the defendant was entitled to the benefit of it, the Magistrate (Mr.F.R. Wood, S.M.) dismissed a cattle stealing charge aganist Alphon[?] William cagney,32, [?] at Cessnock Court on…
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George Garland, 45, of Ravensworth, appeared on Wednesday before Mr. B. A. Woods in Singleton Court of Petty…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.— A young accountant, who was suspended by a Melbourne engineering firm several weeks ago. Is…
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Sydney police discovered to-day that the young man who committed suicide in the Regent Street police Station, last night, was…
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Scotland Yard detectives, after consultation with a police scientist last night, decided they know the murderer of the five missing persons—…
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A Supreme Court jury in Sydney returned a verdict in favour of George Bass Macindoe, whose brother had sued…
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Mr. R. C. Gibson, general president of the Primary Producers’ Union told delegates to yesterday’s meeting of [?]ower Hunter…
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What are believed to be pieces of human bones, were sifted by police from dirt in a Kensington basement yesterday? as Scotland Yard stepped up its inquiries into the sensational acid bath murder cases…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— Murdocks, Ltd., of Sydney, were fined a total of £180 in Glebe Prices Court to-day for having offered…
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Police revealed to-day that a young man who committed suicide in the Regent Police Station last night was disqualified for life last year by the…
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Sydney police revealed today that a young man who committed suicide in Regent Street police station last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Confession of Guilt “Insincere” Amazing Spectacle In Sofia Court
LONDON, March 5. — The spectacle of a defence counsel disagreeing with a contention by the prosecution that a confession of guilt by an accused Minister Was “insincere” marked the closing stages of the trial in Sofia of…
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LITHGOW, Monday.—A 17-year-old girl was remanded until March 17 in the Lithgow Children’s Court to-day on a charge…
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For having behaved in an offensive manner on Maitland Show Ground on Saturday, Patrick Joseph McBrierty, 31,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Solicitor Welcomed To Court
Mr. Robert H. Stilton, who was admitted to practice as a solicitor on Friday last, was introduced by Mr. W. T. Norrle to…
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