Card Cheating Charge A.I.F. Officer Before Court-martial
SYDNEY, Friday.—At a General Court-martial, Lieut. John Manners Nunan, A.I.F., pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge of having behaved in…
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Courts & crime, 1945
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More Police Wanted for Wharves
CANBERRA, Sunday.—Outlining means to check cargo pillaging, the report of the special Cabinet sub-committee will be presented to…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—"A most dispicable crime" was the description applied by Mr. Ryan, S.M., to the offence of tin A.W.L. soldier whom…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A soldier was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at Balmain Court for having stolen a Thompson…
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WOMAN BOUND.—A sentence of two months' imprisonment for Cora Elizabeth Stone, 49, home duties, was suspended on her entering into a £10…
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LONDON, April 30.—The man behind the brilliant plan which took the British Second Army across the Rhine and into northern…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Thomas Martin Dowe, 28, textile worker, married, of Frederick-street, St. Peters, pleaded "Not guilty" in the Central…
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Vera May Welbourn, of 83 Lindsay-street, Hamilton, proceeded against Muriel Scully, of 87 Lindsay-street, Hamilton, claiming £200 for…
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CHARGE AGAINST SOLDIER.—"I have as a witness a handwriting expert who is at present engaged with the Moree warder trial," the Police…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Nicola Greco, 27, of East Sydney, was sentenced to three months' gaol by Mr. Sollings, S.M., in the Special Federal…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Because the members of the jury were released last night in error and allowed to disperse, a murder trial begun…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Another abase of their feud brought the Ship Joiners' Union and the Building Workers' Industrial Union…
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A public holiday will be proclaimed by the Acing Premier (Mr. Baddeley) immediately the end of the European war is announced. Mr. Baddeley, announcing this…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the trial of Thomas Martin Dowe at the Central Criminal Court to-day, Mr. G. R. W. McDonald (for Dowe) said…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Wednesday.—A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury at the trial at Wellington of Noel Ingram Brooks, a 13-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
SOLD ADULTERATED MILK.—An analysis of samples of milk taken from a shop in Patrick-street. Merewether, on March 20, revealed the equivalent of…
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Superintendent of Police (Mr. S. McCarthy) has been promoted to the rank of superintendent first-class, and Inspectors L. R. McLeay and…
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Two defendants who were charged with stealing an 800-gallon tank from Barnsley told Mr. I. Beavers, S.M.. at Teralba Court yesterday,…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The last words of Margaret Holmes, who was found dying in a pool of blood in East Sydney on the morning of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Staff-Sergeant Arthur Heino Mark, 34, of Preston, Victoria, a radio engineer in civil life, was before a District…
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