Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
BEGGED ALMS—Andrew Johnston, 40, labourer, was sentenced to two months imprisonment for having begged aims in Scott-street. For having used…
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Courts & crime, 1945
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Hostile Witness in Murder Case
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Redmond Nolan) was given permission in the Criminal Court to treat as a hostile…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An Italian, Simeoni Chetenti, 39, was remanded at Central Court until August 16 on a charge of having…
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A quantity of engineering tools was stolen from Sorbys' Ltd. on Tuesday night. The thief entered, through a roof window and lowered himself…
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Sergeant John Robertson, who retired from the service of the Police Department in 1923, spends most of his time at Blackheath, but is an…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The United States Army authorities have secured the services of Detective Constable T. Baty, Head of the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Justice Williams, in the High Court to-day, held that the Liquid Fuel Control Board has not the power to…
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A remand to August 17 was granted at Newcastle Police Court today in the charges against Maurice Curby, 26, motor driver, and Cedric…
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BATHURST, Thursday.—Four prisoners working on the farm adjoining Bathurst Gaol broke away from then guards late this afternoon. Three…
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ASSAULT CHARGE.—Malcolm Bruce Coleman, 24, labourer, was committed for trial at Newcastle Sessions on August 20, on £60 ball, on a charge…
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The disappearance of goods from the railway has reached the dimensions of a public scandal. I feel I would be failing in my duty if I…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Atom Bomb Climax to Big Two-day Assault
NEW YORK, August 9. A.A.P.—The second atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki at noon to-day was the climax in a vicious two-day air and sea assault on Japan that is still going on. While Allied battleships and cruisers in Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet…
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FORBES. — William Robert Bathgate, 47, farmer, was charged today with the murder of Luigi Orilga, 38, Italian, and Mrs. Ethel May Wells, 48, at Forbes on October 9, 1935. He was remanded to August 23…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Suggestions that a murder suspect had been threatened by police with torture to make him confess were denied…
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SYDNEY: The High Court today by a 3 to 2 majority upheld a judgment of the State Full Court in favor of Dr. George Bell, of Macquarie…
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AUCKLAND.—Standley Reid, 41, laborer, who is charged with the murder of Mrs. Lila Hammond, with whom he was boarding, was…
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BELGRADE, August 10. A.A.P.— A Military Court sentenced 18 supporters of General Hikhailovitch to terms varying from one to 20 years…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—While hearing a case in Burwood Court to-day, Mr. Hawkins, S.M., collapsed from a severe heart attack. His condition…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Only her age saved a woman from a gaol sentence at Parramatta Court. Her treatment of cattle was described as "inhuman…
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FURTHER REMAND.—Owing to the serious illness in hospital of Cedric Romaro, 37, clerk, who, with Maurice Curby, 28, motor driver, had been…
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