Ten Years' Gaol for Aboriginal
LISMORE, Thursday—In the Supreme Court Donald Ritchie 28 aboriginal, of Maclean, was sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude for the…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd. S.m.)
INDECENT BEHAVIOUR. — Georgius Papaderakes, 55, seaman, was fined £2/10/ for having behaved indecently in Newcomen-street…
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SYDNEY.—Frank Hannon O'Reilly (44), chemist, at the Central Court today was charged with having corruptly attempted to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Courts Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd Sm) Remanded
william Robert A[?]arews, 29, salesman, was remanded to July 4 on three charges. Ball was not applied for. The charges were: Having stolen…
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MELBOURNE.— Antonio Agostini (41), waiter, was sentenced today to imprisonment for six years with hard labor for the manslaughter of his wife, Linda Agostini…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—John Francis Reed, 18, was found guilty of unlawfully wounding Kathleen Molly Jean Fleming, a Salvation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Seeking "Hot-Plate" Drivers
SYDNEY.—Specially trained police are searching for "hot plate" drivers. The Superintendent of Traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Support for Anzac House Appeal
Support for the Miss Sydney competition in aid of the Anzac House Appeal was promised at a meeting of police, in the Newcastle…
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SYDNEY, The deaths of three women in Sydney have been investigated by police during the past 24 hours…
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SYDNEY.—The long drawn out dispute between engineers and plumbers as to their respective work at a Sydney dockyard was…
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SYDNEY.—An application to continue an ex parte Injunction granted by Mr. Justice Roper, on Tuesday, restraining…
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LONDON, June 30. A.A.P.—A message from Algiers says a military court sentenced to death Colonel Justin Mangin, former chief of the…
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OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.— Bothwell Leward Davidson, 42, shopkeeper, who pleaded "Guilty" of having behaved offensively in the supper room of the…
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A change of the meeting date for police reservists was announced by Inspector McLeay. Instead of meeting every alternate Monday night…
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NEW YORK.—The shooting of Detective Joseph Micclo. who died in hospital, started one of the most sensational gun battles…
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Police are anxious to recover an American soldier's wallet containing more than £50 and personal papers, which was on a ledge…
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SYDNEY.—Ewin Elmore, 24, soldier, was charged at the Central Court today with the murder yesterday of John Peter Phillips…
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SYDNEY.—Each of two long-sentence prisoners who escaped from Long Bay on May 25 was sentenced at the Quarter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Courts Police Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd) Stealing Charges
Wilfred Lionel Dixon, 30, mechanic, was fined £7 on a charge of having stolen two gallons of motor oil, valued at £1 1s 2d. from Klosters Pty. Ltd.,…
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"I think you could claim to have had the respect of the community at one time, but not over the past nine years. Your recent…
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