50 Years’ Gaol for Girl
CHICAGO, Fri.: Four negro girls—aged 14 to 19—received gaol sentences yesterday murdering: a 16 year old negro…
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Murder of P.o.w. Alleged Against Japs
CANBERRA, Fri.: The Minister for the Army (Mr. Francis) said today that the trials of Japanese war…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: The Prime Minister announced today that a successor to Mr Justice Reed, present head of the Security Service,…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: The Minister far Lands (Mr Sheahan) has been served with a writ in equity challenging the validity…
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A Criminal Court jury tonight acquitted four men on a charge of haying murdered Mervyn Lance Batten, 31, wharf laborer, at the door of his home in Gold St., Collingwood, on March 2, but convicted two of the men on an alternative count of manslaughter…
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SYDNEY, Sunday : Police in NSW and Victoria are searching for three escapees from the Berrima Gaol…
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LONG BEACH (Cal.), Sun.: Three high school students— a boy and two girls—who modelled their behaviour on…
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Police at West Wyalong on Saturday arrested a man and charged him with having broken into the general store of Graham…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Three policemen said last night that a man whom they arrested in a house in Provincial Rd. Lindfield, had…
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SYDNEY, Son.: Police so far have been unsuccessful in their efforts to trace a man known as “Dr. Darling,” who disappeared…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: The three escapees from Berrima gaol were seen near Trangie today. Police have narrowed their…
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ADELAIDE, Tues.: In the Criminal Court today Andrew John Hoff, 56, was sentenced to four years’ hard labor on a charge of…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: The Chief Commissioner of Police (Mr B[?]can) was today served with a copy of the order made…
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A desperate dash for freedom by three young criminals who escaped from Berrima gaol on Sunday had its sequel in their arrest at gun-point at 4 a.m. today, six miles from Broken Hill. Still wearing their prison…
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A 23-year-old man, who is charged with the murder of a baby, had told police he “must have lost his rocker,” the Coroner (Mr A. R. Kersley) was informed at Liverpool Court today…
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BROKEN HILL, Wed.: The Berrima gaol escapees were charged today with escaping from lawful custody and stealing a motor lorry…
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LONDON, Wed.: Twenty six people convicted at Susice, near Pilsen, of high treason and spying for the United States have,…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Judge Curlewis at Quarter Sessions today, sentenced a South African can journalist to three years’…
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NEWCASTLE, Wed.: The naked body of a dead woman with a belt tied tightly round her throat was found on an…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: The Chief Commissioner of Police, Mr. A. M. Duncan, said today that the search for the wife and two…
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