Youth Acquitted on Assault Charge
SYDNEY, Wed. : A Quarter Sessions jury today acquitted 19-year-old youth of a charge of indecently assaulting a…
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Youths charged with offences against girls
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wed.: Three schoolgirls In the Holt Valley Magistrateâs Court today admitted having sometimes…
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Major General S. H. Porter, the newly-appointed Chief Commissioner of Police, who will succeed Mr Duncan when he retires…
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In the Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. M. W. Cooper J.P., on July 13th, Sydney William Coonan, of Macauley Street, Hay,…
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WEWAK, Thurs.: Eight Komdavip natives were sentenced to death today for the wilful murder of a native constable at…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: Police late tonight were searching for a 36-year-old man for questioning about the murder of an 80-year-old shopkeeper near Bathurst today…
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Communist journalist [?]ex Chiplin is led away by the police after Mr. Justice Owen had said : âTake that man from the courtâ during Wednesdayâs session of the Royal Commission on Espionage In Melbourne. Chiplin had shouted: âThatâs…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: A Chinese seaman had split the heads of two fellow Chinese crew members with a shipâs axe, it was alleged in Chinese Police Court today. The seaman, Mak Hung,…
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An Albury man was found not guilty on barges of obstructing a public road and driving a vehicle, with no headlights,…
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Proprietor of the âPeter Panâ cafe, Holbrook, was fined £3 and ordered to pay £3/15/ costs in Holbrook Court yesterday…
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BRISBANE, Thurs.: A Ukrainian migrant charged with the wilful murder of his wife collapsed in the Criminal Court today and had to be assisted from the court. The migrant, Hyrhorij…
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CHRISTCHURCH, Fri.: Police in the Christchurch Magistratesâ Court today read an alleged statement by a 16-year-old schoolgirl describing how she and another girl battered a woman to…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Police are scouring the Blue Mountains area for a man they wish to question in connection with the murder of an…
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SYDNEY, Fri.: Mr. Justice Taylor, president of the Industrial Commission, today inserted a variation in the carpenters, joiners and bricklayersâ award to permit overtime shifts at Hume Weir…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Homicide detectives last night charged John Henry Baldwin, 38, of St. Arnaud, with the murder of his wife, Mrs. Beryl Baldwin, 40, hotel domestic, at St. Arnaud on…
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SYDNEY, Sun.: Two CIB homicide detectives are still in Baradine investigating the mysterious death of a Baradine timber…
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MELBOURNE, Sun.: Sydney homicide detectives will fly to Melbourne tomorrow to interview a men detained by Russell street police at a room to o Little Collins street residential today…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: Leonard James Elliott, 28, laborer, of Sutherland, N.S.W., was charged in the Melbourne city watchhouse this afternoon with the murder of Arthur Shirlaw, 80, near Bathurst, N.S.W., on Thursday…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: A Maitland Gaol warder has been dismissed by the Prisons Department for trafficking with a prisoner…
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Police believe sheep stealers who have been operating extensively in the Riverina during the past year are making a huge…
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