Police Contradict Man’s Alibi
MELBOURNE, Mon: A laborer’s alibi that he was with a woman friend in Melbourne at the time the Crown alleges be attempted…
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Persian police uncover plot to wreck giant oil refinery at Abadan
LONDON, Mon.: Persian police and security chiefs hove uncovered what is believed to be a vast Communist plot to wreck the Anglo-Iranian Company’s giant oil refinery at Abadan, reports…
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MELBOURNE. Tues.: A Criminal Court jury today found a labourer guilty of the attempted murder and attempted rape of…
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BRISBANE; Tues.: Two men were charged in the police court today with the murder of Albert [?] 29, of Melbourne,…
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CAPETOWN. Tues.: Police road repeated baton charges against ex-servicemen who pelted the police with lighted torches during a mass…
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The president of the ACTU, Mr Monk, today attacked the action of the Federal Government in ordering security police raid union offices. He told the Emergency Committee of the…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: A 36-year-old clerk was charged at Central Court today with the murder of William John Lee, aged 38, who was shot at Ziegleld’s cabaret at 3.20 a.m. on Tuesday…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: A 32-year-old laborer was sentenced to 15 years’ gaol in the Criminal Court today for the…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: Security police swooped on the Coronation Press, printers and publishers in Corrs lane, city, late this afternoon, and seized a quantify of papers and leaflets…
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ADELAIDE, Wed.: When the trial was resumed today of five medical students on charges of the manslaughter of John Gregory…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: Two Women of a party which attended the Ziegfeld Cabaret on Monday night were charged in the Central Police Court today with having murdered William John Lee, 38, former boxer, who…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs: A young man was sentenced in General Sessions today to six months’ imprisonment on a charge of…
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SYDNEY, Thurs: A man sat up alt night with a shotgun after his wife’s lover had made an attack on his life, the Crown…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: A young Australian woman violinist, who worked with the underground behind the Iron Curtain, and aided the escape of 15 political refugees, arrived in…
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BELFAST, Thurs.: Police today searched buildings lining the route of the Royal procession tomorrow to ensure that…
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Messrs C. H. and R. Johnson, executors in the estate of the late W. M. Johnson, applied for permission to increase, rent of premises…
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ROME, Thurs: The wife of an Italian accused of adultery slabbed the petitioner to death while the case was being heard in the court…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: Immediate action to be taken by the Public Solicitor (Mr Hawkins) may result in the release of a man now serving a life sentence for a murder committed 15 years ago…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court of Petty Sessions Thursday, May 31, 1951
At the Corowa Court of Petty Sessions yesterday before Mr. W. C. Amery, P.M., Francis Charles Bundy (Globe Hotel, Corowa) was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Students to Be Sentenced on
ADELAIDE, Fri.: Sentences will be passed on the four [?] students found guilty of manslaughter in the…
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