Two Charged With Jewellery Theft
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two men alleged to have stolen a valuable diamond ring were arrested in less than half an hour…
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Courts & crime, 1946
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Doctor Charged with Murder
MACKAY. — Dr. Charles Dight Barlow was today committed for trial at the Circuit Court on April 8 on a charge of murdering Mrs. A. Doris…
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LONDON, Feb. 12. A.A.P.—Henry Joseph White, who was detained in London in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Charles…
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Children had broken into Mayfield West Public School last Friday night and again on Sunday, the Headmaster (Mr. D, Millar) reported…
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Three charges of stealing a variety of goods were made against Samuel H. Hepburn at Newcastle Police Court today…
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DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when Michael George McNamara, 45, electric ram driver, on remand, was charged with having…
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The following police officers have been notified of their transfer—Sergeant S. Handcock, from Deepwater to Hamilton: Constable R. H…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Fire Into Crowd At Alexandria
LONDON, Feb. 12. A.A.P.—Two students were reported to have been killed by a police volley into a crowd of demonstrators at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Says Man Admitted Robbing Shops
A man who, the police said, had admitted he had committed several robberies in the Belmont district, was charged at Belmont…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Full Bench of the Industrial Commission to-day directed the issuing of an interim order to restrain T.J. Bond,…
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Margaret May Miller, 66, of the Hotel Carlton, Newcastle, was fatally injured when struck by a car at the corner of Scott and Telford…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →4 KILLED, 30 Injured in Calcutta Riots Police Fire On Mobs, Use Tear Gas
CALCUTTA, Feb. 12. A.A.P.—Four persons were killed and 17 wounded up till noon to-day in clashes between the police and Moslerm mobs in the Bhowanipore area, southern Calcutta. The fighting began last night when demonstrations…
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Bruce Woolaston, 22, soldier, was charged before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd S.M., at Newcastle Police Court yesterday afternoon, with having…
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SCENE OUTSIDE the Coroner's Court in Sydney yesterday when Mr. Anderson, solicitor for deceased's relatives, met Mr. L. Britton, brother of Mrs. Jeannette Wicks victim of the kiosk tragedy…
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ALLEGED THEFT.—On three charges of theft, Samuel Hallows Hepburn, 20, seaman, was remanded to Monday. The charges were that at Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Oppose Warning Sign
Erection of a warning sign at the Market-street railway overhead bridge was unnecessary, Greater Newcastle Council was informed last night by…
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BATONS AND SHIELDS as weapons for the British police in Palestine. A mobile picket parades in readiness for action against the rioters in the Holy Land. These men form the "spearhead" of the attack during disorders…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A few hours before the battered body of Mrs. Jeanette Wicks, 48, was found in her kiosk in York-street, City, on January 2, a girl on a stairway above heard a female voice call out "Oh!" three times,…
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SYDNEY: In conversation with him the accused, Douglas Ronald Morris, said he owed the woman murdered in the tobacco kiosk £103 "and a few odd shillings," said Detective-Sgt. Hind, at the resumed inquest today…
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WOLLONGONG, Thursday.—Hedley Arthur Bell, lorry driver, of Kogarah, was sentenced in Wollongong Quarter Sessions to 18 months' gaol…
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