Minister’s Plea For Soldier Sent To Gaol MELBOURNE
The Federal Minister for Labor (Mr Bolloway) today look the witness-stand in the the Criminal Court to plead for a 23-year-old AIF soldiers who had pleaded…
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Police Seeking Two Motorists SYDNEY
Police are seeking two motorists concerned in two accidents, one fatal, who may not be aware of the happenings Late on Tuesday night. Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Force Leave and Superannuation. Sydney
A bill to bring the police regulations Into line with the Public Service Act in respect to extended leave and superannuation was read a second time in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Traffic Prosecutions
At the Corowa Police Court on Monday last, before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., the following cases, were dealt with L. G. Taylor, Brimin,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charge of Assault
She charge of assault against Williams to which the defendant had pleaded guilty, was then taken. Constable Bonnette said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Breaking and Stealing From Bar Publican and Soldiers Acquitted
In the Court of Quarter Sessions, yesterday, a story was told concerning three men, another publican; and two soldiers who, it was alleged, had gone to the Caledonian Hotel late one Saturday night in July, broke the bar door…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Breaches of Regulations Aliens Fined Before Special Court SYDNEY
Fines ranging from £2 to £10 were imposed at the Special Federal Court today on six members of the Civil Aliens Corps for breach of National Security (Allens…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charged With Murder of Baby Wellington, (Nz)
Herbert Alfred Adams was charged union with murder of the female baby of Nita Constance Butt, on October 17. A remand for a fortnight was granted…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Laval Sentenced to Death in Absence London. Oct. 20
Pierre Laval, according to the French radio, has been sentenced to [?]ath in his absence by a court-martial at Marseilles for having had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Young Woman Strangled to Death Youth Charged With Murder SYDNEY
Dorothy Winifred Shorley, aged 20. Lithcow street, Lidtgow, was found dead in a park al 5 o’clock this morning. She had been strangled. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Says Soldier’s Gaol Term Excessive SYDNEY
The [?] member of the Australian War Advisory Council (Mr W. [?] and Mr Les Haylcen, labor member for Parkes, said tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Italian Charged with Murder Prisoners in Camp Melee
The Hay Court House this morning was the scene of a military Court, held under the Prisoner of War Regulations, whereat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Youth Charged With Murder of Girl LITHGOW
Hundreds of sympathisers attended the funeral [?] afternoon of Doris Winifred Shopway, aged 20. Lithogow st., Lithgow who was found strangled in Lithgow Park…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Charged With Slaying Young Woman WINGHAM
Elizabeth Hoskings. aged 46. an [?] was remanded today on a charge of manslaughter of Mrs Du[?]cie Soong Yu. aged 25, of Sydney. It was alleged that at a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →COURT - Martial Imposes Heavy Sentences Perth
A United Slates Navy court-martial has imposed gaol sentences of 12 years and five years, with hard labor on two members of the U.S. Now for their part…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Liquor Worth £600 Mentioned In Court LISMORE
Two men had bought 300 bottles of liquor for £600 with the intention of re-selling it on the black market for £1000, it was alleged in the Police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Dairy Farmer Before Court Several Charges Preferred
Several charges were preferred against William Charles Trevascus, ages 40, dairy fanner, of Table Top, at Albury Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Withdrawal of Police From Country Emphatic Protest in Assembly Sydney
Speaking in the Legislative Assembly, Mr. R. S. Vincent (C. P. Raleigh) protested emphatically against the withdrawal of police from country…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Pictorial Defamation Of Character” Character” Court Told About Portrait SYDNEY
The Equity Court today was asked to declare that the winning Archibald Prize painting. “Joshua Smith.” by William Dobell is not a portrait…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Two Italian P.O.W. Charged With Murder SYDNEY
Two Italian prisoners of war were before a military court at Hay today charged with the murder of a fellow prisoner on July 10. Salvatore Cusi[?]no and…
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