Seamen Praised by Magistrate
SYDNEY: When Thomas Rice, seaman, appeared at the Wales Police Court on a charge of desertion, he said his desertion was…
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Courts & crime, 1942
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Three Years' Gaol for Accountant
SYDNEY, Friday.—Henry James Parsons, 38, who pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of having stolen, over the past eight years, £6468 from his…
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SYDNEY: Theodore Charles Trautwein, former MLC, who had been sent to gaol by Mr. Justin; Lukin for contempt of court and…
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INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—Patrick Kellaher, 49, labourer, pleaded "Guilty" to having behaved indecently in Thorn-street, Newcastle, on Thursday night…
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MELBOURNE: Detectives are hopeful of an early conclusion to their investigations of the murder of Driver Arthur Roy Willis (44),…
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By breaking the window In the laundry, and the front window or the house. thieves entered the residence of Mr. Percival at…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The movements of Albert Roy Willis, 44, a member of the Home Forces, who was murdered on the…
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WASHINGTON, Sunday (AAP): Charges concerning the Standard Oil Trust's relationship with German and Japanese industry have been made by the assistant Attorney-General (Mr. Thurman Arnold)…
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SYDNEY: In a judgment delivered in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, Judge O'Mara said that members of the Amalgamated…
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GAME OF CHANCE.—In connection with a carnival at Islington Park on April 10. Matthew Kilmartin, 52, showman, and Albert Bogden, 29, clerk,…
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SYDNEY: In the Central Criminal Court to-day the hearing of two charges of rape against each of six men was resumed. Accused…
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BUNDABERG, Monday.—John Francis Barnes, M.L.A., for Bundaberg, who was arrested on Saturday night on a charge of having…
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William Rawle. of Sunderland Street. Mayfield. has informed the police that during his absence somebody entered his bedroom and…
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Diving fully clothed into the harbour last night to recover a wallet which he said he had dropped from the wharf, a man paddled around…
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RAILWAYMAN ASSAULTED.—"The new railway by-laws prohibit the entrance to railway property of anyone under the influence of liquor," said…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Stating that the fines imposed for stealing goods from wharves did not seem to have any deterrent effect. Mr Reed,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Charged with having stolen £75 from Miss Olive Haddock, Jack Williams. 48, with nine aliases and a long record of…
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LONDON, June 3.—Rev. Harry Clapham, a Lambeth vicar, was found guilty on 20 charges relating to misuse of money connected with parish…
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WITHDRAWN.—The information was withdrawn in the adjourned cases in which James Clayton, Gordon-avenue, Hamilton, Thomas Holmes, Union-street,…
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LONDON, June 3.—The Chief of the Gestapo (Herr Himmler) has decreed that women will replace policemen in Germany who are fit for…
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