Police Shoot Four German Soldiers
LONDON, April 24.—German military police shot four German soldiers on the spot after a riot in a Brussels cinema which was showing a faked…
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Courts & crime, 1942
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Public Excluded From Court
SYDNEY, Friday.—The public was not permitted to be present at Redfern Police Court to-day, when the hearing of the ease in which six…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaoled for Theft of Bicycle
A special staff of police was engaged in tracing stolen bicycles in Newcastle, said the Police Prosecutor (Sergeant W. G. Wallace)…
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SYDNEY. — Clifford William Gower (52), charged with shooting with intent to murder, was remanded at Parramatta Court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kurds Murder American Woman
WASHINGTON. Sunday (AAP): Kurd rebels shot dead Mrs. Lea Burdett, an American, in a remote part of Northern Iran on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Canberra Police Search for Motorist
CANBERRA, Sunday.—Canberra police are still searching for a motorist who struck an eight-year-old cyclist, Desmond Wilson, in Currie…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Told of Old Man's Disappearance
SYDNEY: A months after his master. William Harold Parkhill (64), bachelor, had disappeared from the little cottage in which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Shoplifting Charge
Ivy Sarah Buxton, 82, home duties. pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing eight paris of socks, one pair of stockings. three paris of children's bloomers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Proper Hun, Says Magistrate
SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Collins, S.M., told Hans Flamish, a German, at Liverpool Court to-day, that he was a real German, with a proper…
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SHOPLIFTER FINED.—Ivy Sarah Buxton, 52, domestic duties, pleaded "Guilty" to having stolen, at Newcastle, on April 24, eight pairs of socks,…
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LITHGOW, Monday.—Joseph Cook, 51, a shiftman, was remanded on three charges at Lithgow Court to-day. The charges were that he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Request for More Police
This association protested when the Commissioner of Police instituted pill-boxes instead of the regular district police. We said…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Inquire Into Coal Yard Derailment
Cessnock police to-day investigated the derailment in the early morning of two coal trucks in the Kalingo Colliery yard. They said…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Court To-day (Before Judge Nield) Quarter Sessions Man Discuarged
Alfred Henry Piper, 46, barber, of Wyong, was charged with having assaulted a girl aged 10 years and two months, with an act of indecency, at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Acquitted on Stealing Charge
SYDNEY: George Ryan (37). painter, was acquitted in Quarter Sessions this afternoon on the charge of having stolen £99…
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FINED ON TWO CHAROES.âPhillip McGee. 30, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to having used Insulting words to Thee Rafty, at Theo's Milk Bar,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Murder Charge Follows Fire In Cafe
SYDNEY: "In the moonlight. I heard two women and a man fighting and arguing. I heard a noise as if blows had been struck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Want Purse Owner
Mayfield police are anxious to find the owner of a small leather purse containing over £3 worth of income tax stamps. This has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Boys' Club Skipping Contest
A skipping contest for the schoolboy championship of the Boy's Club will be decided to-morrow night. The contest will be over one minute and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In Court To-day Quarter Sessions (Before Judge [?]eld) Judge Warns Youth
A warning that another appearance before him would result in his being declared an habitual criminal was given yesterday afternoon bu Judge Nield to…
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