Theft Charge Is Dismissed
In the Newcastle Police Court today Reginald H. Stevens, 32, ironworker, was charged with having stolen £2 from William E. Turner…
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Courts & crime, 1945
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Car Stealing Epidemic In Sydney
SYDNEY: Car thieves in Sydney are more active than ever—650 cars and 66 motor cycles have been stolen since January. There have been more than 50 arrests for car stealing and stripping…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Rex Llewellyn Flanagan, 29, of Fitzrony, has been charged with having wounded Detective John Matthews with…
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The Superintendent of Police (Mr. S. McCarthy) has been notified of his transfer to Sydney. He will become superintendent in charge at…
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Police from Newcastle returned home last night after having spent several days and nights in a fruitless search for four doctors and a…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—George McHenry. 55, labourer, of Sutton Place, Carlton, who was struck by a police car while running for a bus…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Arbitration Court has been interfering in the affairs of the trade-union movement," said the General President…
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SYDNEY: The public was entitled to know what a Minister was prepared to say, argued Mr. Barwick, K.C., today on behalf of the "Sydney Morning Herald" and F. M. Cutlack, who have been charged with contempt of court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charged with Plane Theft Non-Flier, But Got Off Ground
AUCKLAND, Monday.—As a sequel to the destruction of a Union Airways Lockheed Lodestar monoplane, Frederick Demchy, 19,…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—Robert Davis, pastoralist, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered an aboriginal named…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
GRAVEST SUSPICION."—"I entertain the gravest suspicion, but I am unable to go beyond that," said the Magistrate, dismissing the information in a…
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A case of considerable interest to hotel licensees and the travelling public was heard at Newcastle Police Court…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Beryl Lillian Cunningham, of Waterloo, stated in the City Coroner's Court to-day that her brohtre had told…
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George White, 55, of Fairfax Road. Speers Point, was killed when he was struck, it is alleged, by a motor lorry in Main Road, Speers Point, last…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Strikers at Bunnerong and Pyrmont powerhouses resumed work at 11 o'clock to-night. The strike lasted 11 days. An official of the Sydney County…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—In the Probate Court to-day, on echo was heard of the Baerami tragedy of November 22, 1943, when George Abel Harris…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shot by U.S. TROOPS Chief of Italian Secret Police ("Herald" Service.)
NEW YORK, May 21.—Italy's Public Enemy No. 1, and head of the Fascist Secret Police, Major Mario Caritas, was shot to death in his…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—John Frederick Hayes, 31, labourer, was sentenced to three and a half years' gaol for punching a plain-clothes…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the last two months two policemen had been murdered by people illegally carrying firearms, said Judge Berne, in…
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FOUR MONTHS' GAOL.—Jack Penman, 31, labourer, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment, on a charge of having stolen a fold watch, a…
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