Gaol Escapee for Trial
SYDNEY, Wed: In the Central police court to-day. Edward Crofton Barnes. 26, laborer, was committed for trial on a charge of…
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N.G. Timber Leases Case £12,000 Paid Garden, Prosecutor Alleges Ex-M.H.R. Before Court SYDNEY
Allegations that john Smith (“Jock”) Garden, ex-M.H.R., said he was “a goner” if a probe was made into the sale of New Guinea timber leases were made in the Special Federal…
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A 12 months’ sentence to be served at Pentridge was announced in Beechworth Court this week when David Thomas McCauley,…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Robert John Murray, 31, postman, was alleged in the Coro[?]er’s Court to-day to have admitted killing…
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DUBLIN, Thurs: Chief Superintendent Sean Gantly, of the Dublin police, was shot dead in a gun battle yesterday with two…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs: Swift action by wireless patrol police tonight forestalled thirsty thieves who had removed a 27-gallon…
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SYDNEY, Thurs. — The NSW Commissioner of Police (Mr William John Mackay—shown above) collapsed and died to-night. Mr…
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RECIFE (Brazil), Fri. — Nine Norwegians described as “Quislings” by the Norse authorities made a spectacular break for…
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DUBLIN, Fri.—An inquest revealed that the bullet which killed Chief Superintendent Sean Gantly in yesterday’s hunt for…
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GUNNEDAH, Fri.; Police have seized all stocks of medicine at Gunnedah hospital following the death of Mrs Patricia Irene May…
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SYDNEY Fri.: The funeral of the Commissioner of Police (Mr W. J. Mackay), who. died suddenly at his home at Edgecliff last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Sobs Bitterly In Coroner’s Court SYDNEY
A man charged with the murder of a woman in what is known as the body in the trunk case, sobbed bitterly in the Coroner’s Court to-day when the death of his parents was mentioned…
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NEW YORK, Sun.: Allen Licht, 38, of Brussells, alleged to be a member of an international diamond smuggling ring, was arrested…
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On Saturday morning Constable Bradley, of Wodonga Police, arrested a man and charged him with having stolen a bag…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Declaring that she had been abducted in a car while asleep a 21-year-old nurse staggered into…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Arrested near Waterfall today after an intense manhunt, a 21 year old railway employe, George Paul Bechtold,…
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John Macdonald, 39-year-old Scotsman, who had no fixed place of abode, was before Wodonga Court yesterday morning on a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drought Belief Grants to Cereal Growers Farmer Sentenced
At Balranald Court of Petty Sessions on December 18, 1947, Angus Graham McLennan, of Swan Bill, who pleaded guilty before Mr. E. J. Etherton, S. M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Choosing New Police Chief
SYDNEY, Tues: State Cabinet at its meeting on Wednesday is expected to consider the appointment of a successor to the late W…
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After many years’ service in the Albury district, the well known fawn colored police patrol utility has been replaced by a new…
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