Two Murder Charges
CAIRNS, Thursday.—William Leslie Fitzgerald, 29, was charged in the Police Court to-day with the murder of two women and the…
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Courts & crime, 1946
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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd. S.m.)
OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—Samuel Finney, 26, seaman, was fined 20/ for having behaved offensively in the city on Wednesday. It was stated by police…
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SINGAPORE, Feb.7. 7 A.A.P.—Although he was found guilty with six others of cruelty which caused the death of two British prisoners…
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NEW YORK, Thursday. — A woman who asked over a radio "problem answering" programme whether she should divulge the name of an unwed girl friend whom she saw kill her unwanted child has set a problem for a New York County Grand Jury…
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TOWNSVILLE, Thursday.—Several shots were fired at a party of police chasing two suspects near Mt. St. John Zoo this afternoon…
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NUREMBURG, Feb. 8. A.A.P.—Thirteen German youths, member of the "Christian Pathfinders," have been sent to prison by a military…
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WASHINGTON, Friday. — Running short of money, William Patterson (22), serving a two-year sentence for burglary, turned his cell in the…
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ACTED MILITARY POLICEMAN.—Under the guise of a military police. man, Dudley Percy Charles Redman, 22, farm hand, whom military police…
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SYDNEY: Anastacia made the dead-heat in the Colling-wood Handicap at Randwick today with the favorite Royal…
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SYDNEY: Police are still unable to establish a motive for the savage attack on a 23-year-old Wollongong telephonist Joan Aitken, yesterday. About 2 o'clock yesterday morn…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Detectives arrested two men in Randwick while they were attempting to dismantle a car. The men were subsequently…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Mrs. Amelia Dow, 57, of Red Hill, Brisbane, was arrested on Saturday night and charged with the murder…
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ROME, Feb. 10. A.A.P.—Erneito Gottardi, 43, former Fascist official, who participated in the execution of a British lieutenant, Clive…
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Five charges of breaking, entering and stealing, and one of setting fire to the Swansea Surf Club's dance hall and storeroom at Blacksmiths,…
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SYDNEY. — Stopwork meeting of employees of Enoch Taylor & Co. Pty. Ltd., book manufacturers, today protested against the dismissal…
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WEEK-END MEETING.—The lines imposed for getting offences on Saturday. [?] on women given the privilege of a closed court,…
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The following police officers have been notified of their transfer: Constable L. D. Pike, from Newcastle to Gosford; Constable T. F…
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WOLLONGONG, Monday.—At the Quarter Sessions to-day, Lionel Francis Patrick Jennings, 23, clipper, was sentenced to three years'…
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LONDON, Feb. 11. A.A.P.—The Egyptian police raided the offices of the Wafdist newspaper. "Al Misri" and "Wafd Al Misri," and…
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