Jealousy Motive for Murder Allegation by Crown
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—When Roy Kable, 32, hawker, appealed in the Central Criminal Court on a charge of having murdered his wife, the…
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Courts & crime, 1944
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2,000,000 Killed in German Murder Factory
LONDON, Wednesday: More than 2,000,000 people, men, women and children of 22 nationalities died in the German murder factory at Lublin (Poland). World correspondents have just visited the factory for the first time and they…
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SYDNEY.—Truth and Sportsman Ltd. and Joseph Mark Surtees, publisher of Truth," were today called before the State Full…
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SYDNEY. — "I am not here as a morals court, but to protect young women from this type of man." said Mr. Justice Herron,…
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Officer-in-charge of Wallsend police subdivision for 18 months. Sergeant T H. Wright, recently promoted to first-class rank, has been transferred…
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SYDNEY. — Richard William Underwood 30. tram conductor, charged with the murder of Dorothy Jean Davies at Woollahra…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Sentence of death was passed on Roy Kable, 32, for the murder of his wife, Irene Margaret Kable…
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Who owns ticket No. 333 in the watch raffle Newcastle Police conducted for the Anzac House appeal?…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fair Rents Court (Before Mr. E. R. Harvey, S.m.)
RENT REDUCED.—Errol Vivian Boggs occupant of a house in Waratah owned by Alfred Edward Stewart, Waratah, applied to have the fair rental of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →COST £5666 to Rebuild Court Hears Case for Fuel Plant
Cost of pulling down the substitute fuel plant at Hudson-street, Hamilton, and rebuilding it on another site would cost about £5666, Frank…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—At the Central Criminal Court. Leslie George Sharpe, 23, soldier, was sent to gaol for 18 months for an indecent…
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SYDNEY. — A soldier was rested early today and charged with manslaughter following the death of a woman in a traffic…
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LONDON. — For stealing £125O worth of torch batteries and cases and other goods from the Halford Cycle Co. Ltd., Charles…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—At Central Court, Richard William Underwood, 30, tram conductor, who appeared in military uniform, was charged with…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Hearing of the libel suit by Constable N. W. Grigg against the Commissioner of Police (Mr. MacKay), Consolidated Press…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court Indecent Behavior (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, SM)
For having behaved in an indecent manner in Bruce Street, Cook's Hill, on September 1. Thomas John McEnearney, 23, laborer, was fined £2…
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COBAR, Sunday.—Following the recovery this afternoon of the body of Charles Malouf, 32, manager of Bulla station, from the staging of…
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Throughout this morning detectives and uniformed police combed the both between Adamstown and Kotara stations in their search for a man wanted in connection with the shooting of Mrs. Marjorie Ella Rotheram, 42, at Belmont on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.—Alter finding a man in a fiat at Hamilton about midnight an August 25, a constable chased him for over a quarter of a…
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"Defendant surrendered himself at Hamilton Police Station at 6.30 this morning. The police had searched for him for some…
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