Assault Begun Japs Who Refuse to Surrender(From Frank Dexter Manila)
[?] defenders of Intr[?] the old walked city of Munita, having refused to [?] a direct assault by the Americans on their positions has begun…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Courts & crime, 1945
923 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 47
More Police for Pillaging Duty Sydney
As part or the plan to combat ship pillaging, arrangements have been made to release from the services 24 former police officers to augment the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Papers Marked “Deceased” SYDNEY
When Donald Day. who was fatally shot several weeks ago, was named as the defendant in a special Federal court today. Mr Atkinson. S.M.. marked…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldier And Young Woman To Die Murder of a Taxi-drives. London
Appeals against the death sentence [?] on Karl Gustav Rulten and Elizabeth Mariana Jones, were dismissed today, They had been [?] of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Iwo Jima Assault Seen As Prelude To Landing On Japan Tokio Paper Warns of Coming Storm Marines Making Good Progress On Island GUAM
Admiral Nimitz announced today that the marines’ drive across the southern section of Iwo Jima was isolating the enemy strongpoint of Suri Bachi on the island’s southern extremity…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charged with Murder. Sydney
Athol John Lennox, aged 30. was charged at the Central Police Court today with the murder or William Charles Brady at Darlinghurst on February 7. Lennox was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Taxi Deaths Young Man Charged with Murder Melbourne
Twenty-year-old Ronald Eastwood stood his trial on two charges of murder today in the Criminal Court. A taxi-driver, Harry Nicholls, aged 4[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Circus Officials Sentenced Hartford (Connecticut), Wed
Judge Shea, of the Supreme Court, imposed heavy sentences on three officials of Ringling Bros’ circus and also three circus men for involuntary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Youth Charged with Robbing Bank Teller. Kempsey
A 17-year-old youth was charged at the Children’s Court today with having on January 27. while armed with a revolver, assaulted Leslie John Fraser and robbed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Life Sentence for Double Murder Auckland
Martin Eyles. waterside worker, was sentenced to life imprisonment after his conviction in the Napier Supreme Court today on a charge of murdering Charles Swain…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Cases Congestion in Sydney. Sydney
Sydney courts are choked with cases. This month, so for, 384 cases listed have had to be postponed, and last month 300 cases did not reach a hearing. The official reason for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Corowa Police Court Income Tax PROSECllTlONS
At the Corowa public court on Monday last, before Mr R M Stewart P.M. the following cases were dealt with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged to Be Forged Clothing Ration Cards; 9 Charged Sydney
According to police evidence a shopkeeper told Detective Sergeant Gordon Jack he had paid £100 for about 100 forged clothing ration…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Retirement of Sgt. Mair Popular Police Office to Leave Henty Shortly
In accordance with the regulations appertaining in the Police Department of N.S.W., the members are obliged to retire on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →5-Day Working Week Refusal by Arbitration Court Melbourne
The Full Court of the Arbitration Court to-day dismissed an application by the Australasian Meat Industries Employees' Union for a five-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dealer Sent to Gaol Sydney
Gertrude Woolley, aged 42, licensed hawker and second-hand dealer, of Darlington, was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions today to six months…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To Remain In Gaol Till He Dies ADELAIDE. Friday
Harold Perrival Stilt, aged 32, laborer. Adelaide, was ordered imprisonment with hard labor for the term of his natural life in the Criminal…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Japanese Murder 3000 Filipinos Men, Women and Children Massacred in Manila (From Frank Dexter on Manila)
While American troops were cleaving buildings dominating the walled city of Manila, preparatory to the final assault on this fortress, the Japanese were beginning the wholesale slaughter of Filipino civilians within the city…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Balranald Police Court Italians and Income Tax
In the Court of Petty Sessions at Balranald on 22nd February; 1945, before Mr. U. M. Stewart, Police Magistrate, a number of Italian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japanese Murder Priests MANILA
Before the Americans captured In-tramuros he old walled city of Manila, the Japanese ordered 130 priests to enter their church’s air-raid…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →