Husband-wife on Court Bench
BURNIE, Tuesday : For the first time in the history of the Hobart police court a man and his wife were an the bench today. The…
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WOOD-STEALING Assault on Landholder
At Monday's meeting of the Carrathool Shire Council, a telegram was received from the lands Department concerning…
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Two men appeared at the Court of Petty Sessions today before Mr. M. J. Cronin J.P., to answer a charge of sheep stealing…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: A 28 years old invalid pensioner, Lawis Charles Ellis, was charged at Central Court today. with…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: Two men were committed for trial by the City Coroner (Mr Austin) today for the murder of the gangster,…
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SYDNEY, Fri.—Two Macquarie Street specialists, who had examined Matthew Torpey, had found him to be of unsound mind, it was…
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NEW YORK, Fri.: Irving [?] the ninth of a group of 12 leading American Communists charged with advocating the overthrow of…
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A man who was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for shooting Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones in November, 1944, has been, released from Long Bay Gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Police Clear Path for Oliviers
SYDNEY, Fri.—A squad of 25 policemen had to clear a path through thousands of women and girls who thronged…
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A Macquarie Street doctor, George Stanley Thompson, 66, of Coogee, and Gene Valentino Van Gercken, 23, student, were charged in the Central Police Court today with the murder of Van…
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A YOUNG man and his wife were arrested in their Herne Bay flat just before midnight last night and charged with the murder of the baby boy found in Belmore road…
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FISTS and boots were used in wild melees in many Rugby League games yesterday. Players were ordered from the field in first grade matches and the police had to protect players and referee Bishop from a mob at Hurstville oval…
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At the Tocumwal court last week Edna Mae Sperring was charged with having on July 19 stolen a [?]5 bank note the property of Mrs. Linda…
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SYDNEY, Mon.—Following a recent conference of Australian security chiefs in Canberra, a check by the Commonwealth…
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SYDNEY, Mon: Victor [?] Kempson, 46, carrier, of Raglan st., South Melbourne, was found not guilty at…
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GEELONG, Tues.: Eugene Francis Fitzpatrick, 37, of Como Parade, Mentone, medical practitioner, was remanded until August 3 by…
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Some excitement has been caused here during the past week or so at rumors of proceedings pending for alleged sheep stealing. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Late News “Mystery Organisation Within Victorian Police” MELBOURNE
A request that the Chief Secretary’ Department make investigations into what he termed a mystery…
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REPORTS from Egypt indicate that murders are being committed daily in the streets in the streets in Egypt and that the police are making little active effort to prevent them, says “The Times” diplomatic…
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LONDON, Thurs.: Forty flying squad police fought a desperate battle with a gang armed with crowbars, bottles and…
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