Foster Sent to Gaol
SYDNEY, Friday.—Thomas Edward Foster, 32, was to-day sentenced at the Quarter Sessions to five years' gaol for the manslaughter of his…
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Courts & crime, 1942
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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
PART-HEARD.—Complaints had been made to the Police that several churches in Newcastle had been broken into recently, it was slated in the case in…
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SYDNEY: Mr. Justice Davidson commenced his summing up at the murder trial in the Central Criminal Court to-day just…
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MELBOURNE: Allocations that an 18-year-old girl and two young AIF men had planned to lure an American soldier to the City…
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An attempt was made during the night to break into James Brown's store, in Maitland-road, Mayfield…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—Percy Reginald Byren, 44, railway fettler, took arsenic poison three-quarters of an hour before he was to have…
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LONDON, Friday (AAP): A court-martial is trying 30 French men and women for aiding British airmen who were shot down over…
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From F. R. PETERSON: The trial by Court-martial of Pte. Ed-ward Joseph Leonski, 24, a United States soldier, on three…
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MELBOURNE: In the opinion of the Medical Board, Pte. Edward J. Leonski, 24, of the U.S. Army, was sane when it examined him and was sane, but under the influence of alcohol, at the times the alleged offences were committed…
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Inspector J. C. McCormack, formerly attached to the sydney metropolitan district took up duties at Newcastle to-day,…
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CHUNGKING, July 12.—The initial raids by the United States Army Air Force on Japanese-occupied cities were only the beginning of a mighty…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Courts Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. Sm) Insulting Words
For the use of insulting words to Sergeant H. Larkin, in Hunter Street, on July 11, John Leonard Priestnall, 42, wharflaborer, was fined £3, in…
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SYDNEY:Alfred Henry Singleton, 24, laborer, appeared before Mr. Mahony, SM, at the Central Court to-day, charged with…
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MELBOURNE: Clinical examination of yellow clay found on private Edward Leonski's tent, shoes and bed showed it was identical with that taken from the area where Miss Gladys Hosking's body was found, the Police Analyst…
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OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Sequel to a fight in Hanbury-street, Mayfield, on Friday was the appearance of Thomas Darcy Mason, 33, steel-worker,…
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LONDON, Mon. (Our Special Representative).—Gandhi's move for British withdrawal from India does not at present appear…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Alfred Henry Singleton, 24, who escaped from the cells at Newtown police station in sensational circumstances on June…
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LONDON, July 13.—A message from Vichy states that gendarmes and German police met a hall of grenades when they raided a…
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SYDNEY: An application was made by Ironworkers' Association to Judge O'Mara in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day to…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.— Private Edward J. Leonski, 24, of the U.S. Army, who is charged with the murder of…
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