Police Promotion
Senior Constable Swadling, of Hay, has been advised of his promotion to be officer-in-charge of the Urana Station. Constable Swadling has now…
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Out of Gaol and in Again!
MELBOURNE, Thurs.: After serving; two years at Long Bay Gaol, Sydney, for housebreaking, Edward Claude Rankin, [?]…
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TWO men were to-day sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, and a third to three years for a “brutal and unprovoked” assault on a wharf timekeeper…
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Willis Grey Kelly, 31, an American, of no fixed address, was fined £5, in default 14 days' imprisonment, at Wodonga Court of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Family Tragedy Averted by Police Discovery Inquest Today into Boy’s Death
INVESTIGATIONS by C.I.B. poisons expert, Det.-Sgt. J. Gordon, into the death at Deniliquin of four-year-old Ernest Edward Watts, led police to believe that only by chance was a tragedy involving six other children and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comic Court Chosen to Defeat Carbon Copy in Craiglee Melbourne
COMIC COURT and Carbon Copy have their [?] clash when they meet in the [?] Stakes at Flemington on Saturday. Comic Court has one up on his [?] and with an [?] of luck, will make it two up. Racegoers are in for a treat…
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LITHGOW, Fri.: Seven men have been charged with allegedly stealing large quantities of building materials consigned to the…
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BERLIN, Sun.; Three British soldiers who fled from a Russian gaol on Thursday night were sentenced yesterday to forfeiture…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Twenty-five five years old Theodoras Martians Josephns van Hoot, a Dutchman whose deportation was…
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FRANKFURT, Sunday.—Denazification tribunal at Fritzlar, Hesse, yesterday classified Prince Josias of Waldeck-Pyrmont, former SS…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Deny Soviet-zone Police Heavily Armed
LONDON, Sun.: The Berlin Radio quoted by Reuter’s last night denied foreign Press re ports that the Russians had…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Union Official’s Attack on Arbitration Court Sydney
“THE Arbitration Court is 10 times worse than when the Labor Party took-office,” the secretary of the Sheetmetal Workers’ Union (Mr. T. Wright) said to-day…
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SYDNEY, Monday.: Pleading guilty to a charge of having obtained a £5 bribe in his capacity as a Commonwealth officer, a…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: A 65-year-old woman was charged at Burwood Court today with the murder of a girl whom police said died after…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Search For Engineer MELBOURNE
POLICE are making state-wide searches in Victoria and South Australia for Bernard William Hams worth, 44, engineer, who intended making a Pacific cruise with a man a nd woman who were shipwrecked for 3½ weeks on Curtis Island…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court to Determine Calwell’s Powers
SYDNEY, Mon.: The question of the validity of the Immigration Act, 1949, and the War-time Refugee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deportee Sent to Gaol
MELBOURNE, Tues.: Pending deportation, Bengt Torild Jonsson, 31, of Gurner St., St Kilda, was sentenced to three months…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: A General Sessions jury today acquitted four young men on a charge of having stolen wedding gifts…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Seek Missing Boys Girls
SYDNEY, Tues.: Police to-night are searching Sydney for three Dubbe boys who are seeking the thrills of city life…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wangaratta News Items Wangarata, Wednesday Sentenced For Larceny
At the Supreme Court, before Mr Justice Dean, Charles Alexander Kendall, 42, and Reginald Clark, both of Hawthorn, were…
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