Police Official Arrested
BAGHDAD, Mon.: Ali Khalid, the Director-General of Police was arrested yesterday following an unsuccessful pre-dawn attempt…
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Police Fear Crime Upsurge
SYDNEY, Mon: Police expect there will be more tommy-gun hold-ups in Sydney following the theft of sub machine guns and a…
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After 37 yews in the NSW police force, most of which time was spent in service along the Murray, and rising from the…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: Police patrols are searching a wide area in North-Eastern Victoria in their efforts to recapture the three…
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SYDNEY, Tues: A Polish migrant charged with the murder of an army private at Moorebank military camp on January…
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BRISBANE, Tues.: The Republic of China successfully challenged in the Supreme Court the power of the United States to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dugan and Mears in Cells Again After Two Months’ Freedom Strong Police Guard in Dock Sydney
EIGHT detectives and a number of uniformed police closely guarded Darcy Dugan, 29, and William Mears, 27, when they appeared before Mr. Debenham, S.M., at Central Court They had been captured this morning after two months at…
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Albury police are on the alert for the three Ballarat gaol escapees, James Betterton, Brian Norris and Alan Smith…
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MELBOURNE, Wed: Three members of the RAAF, aged 19, 23 and 24, have been arrested by police and charged with having stolen…
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SYDNEY, Wed.—A 78-year-old farmer was seriously wounded when shot in the side and back on his farm at…
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AUCKLAND, Wed.: Police are searching the Whakatane district for a man believed to be armed and carrying a large supply of…
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A fracas at a concert, and dance at Cornishtown school on December 7 last had its sequel at Rutherglen Court when two Chiltern…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Charged with the attempted murder of his mother, a man is alleged to have told police, “Christ…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: A woman who took police sergeant Into her house and boarded him for six months such him for…
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SINGAPORE, Thurs: Nine Malaya, accused of abetting the murder of the Governor of Sarawak (Mr. George…
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DENILIQUIN, Friday: Three convicts who escaped last Saturday from Ballarat Gaol were recaptured at pistol…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.: In the City Court this morning Frederick William Harrison, 27, of Eildon Court. St. Kilda, and Norman…
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MELBOURNE, Fri: A jury in the Criminal Court today acquitted former boxing champion Harry Summers, 35, of Hoddle st,…
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SYDNEY. Friday : A highly-organised gang dealing in blackmarket bottled beer is fleeing for cover with the…
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TWENTY-SIX Japanese war criminal suspects held in Sugamo prison in Tokio have been charged with the murder of Australian servicemen…
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