Get Police Report on Cessnock Allegations
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley). replying again to allegations by Rev. Alan Walker that gambling was going on…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Police Allegation Shot After Two-up Argument
SYDNEY. — Allegations that William Joseph McCarthy had been shot following a brawl at a two-up school on…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Validity of sections 14 and 16 of the Manpower National Security Regulations was challenged…
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WOMAN FINED.—In addition to being fined £2 for having behaved offensively in Hunter-street on Monday. Hilda Holland, 28, domestic, was…
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CAR STEALING CHARGE Victor Syron, 18, laborer, John C. O'Brien, 18, RAAF. Ronald M. Grant, 18, laborer, were charged with stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Krivoi Rog Falls to Red Assault: Town a Shambles
LONDON, Tuesday. — Russian troops yesterday captured the great iron ore town of Krivoi Rog (Dnieper Bend) which the Germans razed with dynamite and fire as they were driven out. A graphic Reuter message from Moscow says the centre of the town was…
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SYDNEY.âAllegations of cruelty against a police sergeant and a constable were made when three sons, their 62-year-old father and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Grants Bail to Seamen
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Bail was granted by Mr. Justice O'Bryan in the Practice Court to two British seamen, who appealed against their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Reserves Decision Unions' Claim on B.H.P. Company
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission to-day reserved judgment on the claims by the Federated…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Two British seamen to-day secured their discharge from gaol, where they had been since January 6 after they had…
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BALLARAT, Wednesday.—When James Gleeson, 75, made his 257th appearance in Ballarat Police Court to-day on a charge of being drunk…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—After an absence of 3½ hours, a jury at the Criminal Court to-day found Ferdinand C. Kennett, 35,…
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FOR TRIAL.—Three men and two juveniles were committed for trial at Newcastle Sessions so April 24 on a charge of having stolen a car valued…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday.—Sensational evidence is expected at the trial of RCAF Aircraftman Wayne Lonergan, 26, on a charge of murdering his wealthy wife. Mrs. Patricia Lonergan's body…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Government did not propose to interfere with the power of the Arbitration Court and State industrial…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Arthur Lawrence Perkins, 45, had visited clergymen, telling them he had just been released from gaol and asking…
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FOR TRIAL.—Ronald Maxwell Grant, 18, labourer, and a youth under in were committed for trial at Newcastle Sessions on April 24 on a charge of…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday.—In addition to a sentence of three years' imprisonment imposed at the Adelaide Criminal Court for having…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Sentence of eight years' hard labour was given Joseph Dawson, 40, Adelaide's No. 1 gunman, by Mr. Justice Mayo…
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Two men who refused to take an cath under the Defence Act were each sentenced to three months imprisonment by Mr. C. G…
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