Two Months' Gaol for Illegal Petrol
SYDNEY.—A taxi driver had refused to say where he got 44 gallons of petrol because "there were too many others in it,"…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Second Charge of Murder
MELBOURNE—Ferdinand James Kennett (35), of Central Avenue, Footscray, a fibrous plaster worker appeared in the City Court…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Inquiries into the appearance of two Sydney racehorses, at the Tumut race meeting late last year resulted in…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Why an extraordinary conference of the Police Association should be called when a war was on, and Labour…
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SENT TO GAOL.—"I do not know what to do with a man like this," said the Magistrate. "You have a bad record." The defendant, Ernest Kelly, 38, who…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The statement made at the police conference on Monday that police were on the verge of revolt was the…
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WARWICK (Qld.), Wednesday.—The District Court-martial at the conclusion of evidence this afternoon, acquitted Staff-Sergeant J. Cardigan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
£20 FINE.—Ronald Tanner, 31, labourer, was fined £20 for being on land off Barry-street, Waratah, for betting. Evidence was taken last Monday,…
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SYDNEY.—On two charges ol having been knowingly concerned in the illegal transportation of racehorses. Richard Peter Cruise,…
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LONDON, Thursday. — An extraordinary story of a young man who posed as an Army captain and said that Hess, the Nazi leader had escaped, was told at Bow Street Police Court to-day…
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GOSFORD Friday.—Arising out of the number of absconders dealt with at Gosford Police Court, Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., after the…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—How a baby was killed, allegedly by a blow from an axe, after a party at Footscray was told at the Coroner's Court…
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SENT TO GAOL.—Patrick Joseph Maher, 30, radio mechanic, was charged with at Newcastle on November 19 having falsely held out that as a…
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SYDNDY, Friday.—Strong representations made to the Federal Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) to-day by representatives of the Northern…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Leo Bernard Cullen, former licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Liverpool-street. Sydney, who is serving a gaol sentence…
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SYDNEY.—On a charge of contravening the National Security (Prices) Regulations on or about January 14 by selling a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Courts Newcastle Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Curr-Boyd, Sm) Indecent Language
Frank Parkes, 57, was mind £2 or four days imprisonment, for using indecent language in Scott Street on January 15…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Adjournments were granted at the Special Federal court when Harry Barnes, Vice-president of the Master Butchers'…
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For having offered to supply meals at a rate higher than the maximum rate fixed, on August 20, State Fish Foods Pty. Ltd.,…
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INDECENT BEHAVIOUR.—John McFadden, 38. labourer, was fined £2 for indecent behaviour. INDECENT LANGUAGE.—Frank…
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