Police Raid on Dice Game: 18 Men Fined
When police under Sergeant H. Larkin raided a house in Fourth Street, Adamstown, on the evening of March 15, men were…
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Courts & crime, 1946
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Jury Sent From Court New Information at Murder Trial
SYDNEY, Monday.—Because "certain information had been received by the authorities," the trial of William Robert Bathgate, 47, farmer, of…
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"In view of the prevalence of thefts from ships, the Bench would be failing in its duty if a sentence were not imposed it this case," said…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Arrested at Narrabeen yesterday after absconding from the Gosford Farm Home for Boys, a 10-year-old youth has been…
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TAXI DRIVER REMANDED.—Stuart Harold Eastbrook, 34, taxi-driver, was remanded to April 26, on £10 ball, on a charge of having had in his custody,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A deaf mute, Michael Courtney Bergeyne Allen, charged with the murder of Francis Ameins Smith, 21, of the R.A.A.F.,…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Absence of a material witness for the defence meant the indefinite adjournment of the trial of Frederick George Poland,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The "Australian Sun Bather" is to be the subject of a police report to the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley)…
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NEW YORK, March 18.—Because of the fear that some of the more irresponsible anti-British elements in the community may get out of hand,…
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DARWIN.—The Darwin Milltary Court would not be stampeded by public opinion, declared Lieut-Colonel Arnold Brown…
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LOS ANGELES, March 18.—Three officers of the American cargo ship Wallace R. Farrington, said to-day that they had spent a week in the…
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A man was described by Detective V. B. Woodward in Maitland Quarter Sessions this afternoon as a dangerous criminal who…
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A man said in Maitland Quarter Sessions today that he had kept a .35 calibre automatic pistol to protect himself from a savage dog which wandered in the bush near his home at East Maitland…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Thomas Oliver Murphy, 35, cabinetmaker, charged at Central Court with having assaulted his sister, Rose…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A charge against Kenneth Donald Holliday, 23, journalist, of having stolen £125 was dismissed by Mr. Ryan, S.M.,…
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"CONFIRMED INEBRIATE."—"He has been well treated, but is a confirmed inebriate," said the Magistrate, when the police withdrew a change of…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—After seven days' trial a Criminal Court jury to-night found Lau Chi, 26, Cheong Tuk Lim, 23, and Lee Kam…
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Three claims were heard by Judge Perdriau at the sitting of the Workers' Compensation Commission in Newcastle. ADJOURNED TO SYDNEY.—After the…
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Richard Victor, 35, mine deputy, of Rawson-street Extended, Aberdare, appeared before Judge Nield at the Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—At the conclusion of evidence in the case at the City Police Court in which George Ernest Cowan, 24, a quarter,…
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