Murder Charge on "Bridge" Case
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Harold Roy Francis, 32, storeman and packer, was charged in the City Court today with the murder…
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Police Sergeant Told Court Man "Perfect Pest"
When a police sergeant objected to remarks made by a man in the bar of a Thirroul hotel, he was told, by the man…
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Herbert Charles Matthews, of Mount Kembla, was rushed by Illawarra ambulance to the Wollongong Hospital early yesterday…
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Thefts from two cars during blackouts on Monday night have been reported to Wollongong detectives. One of the cars is owned…
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A 20 year old youth who told police he had been running for a Sydney S.P. bookie from whom he stole £11 and was now not game to go back to that area, appeared at the Wollongong Court on…
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BRISBANE, Monday.— A woman and a man who had allegedly plotted "to get rid of her husband, were…
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A 19-year-old youth, who had been an inmate of the Gosford Boys Home was fined a total of £20 and. ordered to pay £9/2/-…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court Gives Owner Possession of Flat
A returned soldier, Thomas Noble, of Wentworth Street, Port Kembla, was given two months in which to leave his…
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A sitting of Kiama Court of Petty Sessions was held on Wednesday last before Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M. Edward Austin, of R.A.N., pleaded…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Chief of the C.I.B (Supt. C. J. Delaney) said today police were concerned at the marked increase in the…
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LOS NEGROS, Wednesday (A.A.P. Reuter).—The former Chief of Staff of the Japanese Second South Seas Expedition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →'Mistook Police Sergeant for Bookmaker's Clerk'
A Thirroul man who claimed he had mistaken a police sergeant for a bookmaker's clerk, pleaded not guilty at the Bulli Court on Friday to a charge of behaving in an offensive manner."…
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A fisherman was warned in Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday that he ran a risk of losing his licence if he…
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Glass cutters were used to gain entrance to two lock-up shops in Nowra on Wednesday night. Watches and rings valued at…
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PRAGUE, Thursday (A.A.P.).—Hungarian "war-mongers" will be sent to prison for 15 years and their property confiscated…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.âMr. Justice Dwyer sentenced Stanley Hannah, 27, haulage contractor, of Thompson Street, Gladesville…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Athol William Kennedy, 29, labourer, was committed for trial today by the City Coroner (Mr. Bott)…
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A man who arrived late in Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday told Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Prosecutor Criticises Motor Car Dealers
Motor car dealers, although they say they will transfer registration of vehicles, invariably fail to do so, declared the…
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A police car, which chased another vehicle along Prince's Highway, Unanderra, had reached 52 m.p.h., Wollongong…
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