Police Chief Cleared
PERTH, Mon.: Following a Royal Commission Into allegations of maladministration in the WA police force, Judge…
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£1000 Bail for Man on Murder Charge
SYDNEY, Mon.: Norman Wilfred McNamara, 26, rabbit skinner, of Baltimore st, Belfields, was remanded until…
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A 16-YEAR-OLD Gunnedah girl, Dawn Gloria Facer, was remanded for sentence until Wednesday morning by Mr. Justin Clancy to-day after having pleaded guilty to…
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John George Haigh, 39- year-old company director, of the Onslow Court Hotel Kensington, London, who…
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ADELAIDE, Tues.: - Following an argument at a Victorian Forestry Commission camp near the border, Daniel Smith, 30, of North…
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LONDON, Tues.: It is officially announced that the Northwest Frontier Police have unearthed a plot to asassinate…
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NICE, Tues: Police armed with sub-machine guns. are on guard at the Cannes Hospital, to which Natasha Wromsky, a 22-year-old…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday : The Brisbane City Council today gave authority to lay complaints against any person who…
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MUNICH, Wed: A U.S. Military Commission has sentenced Mrs Elfriede Z[?]erlik, 50, a Sudetan German, to three years’…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: In two Criminal Court cases today, three accused men alleged they had been bashed by the police…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: A Log of claims for salary increases for all ranks in the Victorian police force were lodged with…
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“YOU’VE given me a pretty stiff term. What about the girl and the child—what are they going to live on while I’m in gaol?” Thomas Harry Hoberg asked Judge Ber[?]e in ana emotional outburst from…
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Mr. E. M. Debenham presided over the Court of Petty Sessions, Mathoura, last week. The following cases were dealt…
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SIDNEY, Thurs.: Found not guilty of a charge of murdering his rival, Eugene John Cleary, 46, plumber, of Bega, was…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: After an argument over money, a 63-years old laborer allegedly cut his wife’s throat and then his…
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A labourer Alexander John Wood, 55, appeared before Messrs. F. V. Holden and J. Cronin. J’s.P. at the Court of…
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THE A.J.C.’s hearing of the Barita appeals took a surprise turn late to-day when the chairman (Mr. A. G. Potter) announced that the part-lessee (Mr. J. H. Robinson) would be charged with…
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About 16.30 p.m. on Thursday a utility truck, the property of the Grain Elevator Board, was taken from where it was…
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THE tough little town of Evarts yesterday lost its fifth police chief since August when a Harlan circuit court jury found Isachar Combs, 28, guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Combs and a patrolman, Lewis…
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STORY of a midnight marriage with a man 26 years her senior while she was half drunk was told in Quarter Sessions to-day by Joan Gertrude Vera McCarthy, 17, of Redfern. The man she married, George Williams, 43, wharflaborer, was sentenced to 12 months’ gaol on a charge of marrying a girl under 21 without the written consent of her parents…
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