Police Still Baffled by Murder
SYDNEY. — Police still have found no motive for the murder of Joan Minnie Jenkins, 20-year-old waitress at the Royal Hotel,…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd. S.m.)
INDECENT LANGUAGE.—George Kailikini, 33, seaman, was fined £5 for having used indecent language in the public bar of the Criterion Hotel,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—When Clarence Sydney McNulty was arrested last year the Police Commissioner (Mr. MacKay) was so anxious to get…
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SYDNEY. — Because Maisie Maud Hogg, a member of the AWAS. refused to sit on the front lawn at her home at Bexley on June…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In the Courts Police Court Remand to Maitland (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, SM)
Richard Johnson Mears. 34. laborer. was charged with having broken and entered Ruby Winifred Moxey's name at Kangaroo Street. Raymond Terrace,…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Judgment was reserved by the High Court of Australia on an application by colliery proprietors of the Maitland and North-Western New South Wales coalfields for a writ of prohibition against an award…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The number of courts-martial for A.W.C. offences in New South Wales showed that many men called up for military…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The General President of the Miners' Federation (Mr. Wells) had in his letter to Mr. Curtin misrepresented…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
REMANDED.âRichard Johnson Mears. 34, labourer, was remanded to West Maitland Court next Monday on a charge…
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SYDNEY.—A lad of 15 years was charged at the Children's Court today with the attempted murder of an American. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Courts Police Court Goods in Custody Charge (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M.)
A plea of not guilty was made by Robert Gordon harvey, 22, wharf laborer, when he was charged with having knowlingly had i a room in Queen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →O'dwyer Appeals to Supreme Court Disqualification by V.R.C.
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A writ was issued out of the Supreme Court against Richard Turnbull, Chairman of the V.R.C., as…
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WHARF LABOURER FINED.—Convicted of knowingly having had in a room at Queens-street, Cook's Hill, on August 16, two lengths of dress material and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Courts Police Court (Before Mr. E. R. Harvey. S.m.) Indecent Behavior
Colin vincent Gallagher. 25. laborer. was fine £2 or four days' imprisonment for having behaved in an indecent manner…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A 15-year-old boy fired a shot at an American and then attempted to rob him, police alleged in the Children's Court…
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SYDNEY.—Richard William Underwood, 30, tram conductor, was charged at Central Court this morning with the murder of…
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BENEFIT OF DOUBT.—"I will give him the benefit of the doubt," said he Magistrate to Mr. N. T. Cragg, who appeared for Mervyn William Smith,…
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TAMWORTH, Friday.—Mr. G. G. Fergusson, former Superintendent of the Northern Police District, died to-day, aged 57. Ill-health compelled his…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Premier (Mr. McKell) has approved a new wage scale for police cadets, providing an increase of 10/ a week. The…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Justice Cantor gave judgment in the Industrial Commission on award applications for Maitland and Newcastle…
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