Police Fail to Find Killers SYDNEY
The ever-growing list of unsolved major crimes In NSW has been added to as the result of the failure of the police to And the killers of William…
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Defendants Escorted by Soldiers into Court PERTH
Another adjournment was granted In Perth court today when four persons were charged with conspiring together to assist the armed forces of Japan. Mr G. Darcy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Old Man Assaulted Man Posed As Police Sergeant
At the Corowa Police Court on Tuesday last, Clarence John Mara who was charged with having unlawfully assaulted William Stollard at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Aircraftman Sentenced to Death LONDON, May 1
Aircraftman Gordon Frederick Comm[?]ns, aged 28, has been sentenced to death at the Old Bailey. He had been charged with the murder of four women. Comm[?]ns was…
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Tile PM (Mr I. Williains) took a lenient view of an offence admitted by three soldiers in the Wodonga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol and Whipping For Man MELBOURNE
Seven years’ Imprisonment, and a whipping of 15 strokes of the birch, were ordered by Mr Justice Q’Bryan in the Criminal Court today for Leslie Stephens,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death Sentences on Stokers High Court Proceedings. Sydney
In the High Court today. Dr Frank Louat declared that in proceedings before court martial which had found two stokers of the Royal Australian Navy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Government Charged With SYDNEY
Speaking on the second reading of the Local Government Amendment Rill In the Legislative Assembly today, the Leader of the Opposition…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victim of Brutal Assault SYDNEY
Victim of a brutal assault and suffering from shocking head injuries, Hoftinan, aged 56, a chef, was last night on a vacant allotment…
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Wallace William Behrens, who is undergoing a sentence of two years' imprisonment, in the District Court today was sentenced to an additional 12…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Germans Murder 72 Dutch London, May 5
The German-controlled Hilversum radio announces that 12 Dutch people have been shot following a court martial on charges of favouring the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Say Hotel Hours 10 A.M. " to 6 P.M. SYDNEY
A denial that he had given instructions that liquor could be sold after hours to workers engaged in essential industries on days other than Sundays, was given by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Make Big Haul Visit to Workmen’s Camp Near Darwin Advanced Allied Base
Thousands of pounds worth of furniture and other goods from homes were seized by the military police when they visited civil workmen’s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →15 Year Old AIF Member Court-martialled SYDNEY
A court-martial has ordered Private Reginald Austin McGrath, a 15-year-old member of the AIF, lo pay £6 / for petrol consumed when he went for a two-day ride…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →School Teacher's Gaol Term Increased SYDNEY
[?] the appeal by the Crown [?] against the [?] of the [?] of [?] months imposed on [?] the [?] today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wants To Go To Gaol "Won't Pay Fine,"' says Albury Youth
"I'll take, the lime out," said Arthur Janes Holden. of Day street, Albury, at the local police court yesterday, after Mr I. Beavers,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nazi Police Chief to Control Occupied France London, May 8
A Zurich report states that He[?]rich, Nazi police chief, is now in Pa[?]is. He has been in charge of the [?] brigades in the occupied countries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One-legged Man on Murder Charge SYDNEY
Bernard Francis Faber, a one-legged charged in Balmain court today with the murder of Mary Magdalene Hasset, aged 49, who died in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Another Brownout Murder Woman Strangled to Death MELBOURNE
On a fight of 11 stone steps leading from Spring st., city, to the front door of Mo[?]gaide H[?] a residential, Mrs Pan[?]ne Thompson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Took Blame and Went to Gaol SYDNEY
Colin Keith Gasnier, aged 22, who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at the Quarter Sessions today for house-breaking, successfully…
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