Wickham Woman Not Guilty Of Murder
SYDNEY.—After a retirement of only a few minutes a Central Criminal Court jury late yesterday afternoon returned a verdict of not guilty…
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Courts & crime, 1946
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Police Boys' Club for Cessnock
A block of land in Main Street. Cessnock, which has been selected as a site for the Cessnock Police Boys' Club, will be inspected tomorrow by…
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At Cessnock Court today charges of negligent driving, assaulting a constable and driving a vehicle under the influence of liquor against Richard…
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Kenneth A. Beech, 19. laborer, pleaded guilty at Newcastle Police Court to stealing a bicycle valued at £10, the property of Bernard J…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man who advertised a cottage which did not exist as being "To Let" over the last Christmas holiday period, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
NO EVIDENCE.—Because there had been a conviction in another matter arising out of the same incident, the police had no evidence to offer when…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—A jury to-day found Mrs. Amelia Dow guilty of murder Acting Judge Matthews imposed a life sentence…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Assault On Ticket Examiner Cost Man £54
An assault on a railway ticket examiner, while the train was going through Tick Hole Tunnel at Cardiff, on March 19, cost…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Allege Man Stole Hotel Safe
Detectives alleged at Newcastle Police Court today that three men who intended to steal a safe were found in a bedroom at the Lass…
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DARWIN, Tuesday.—Describing his Kempei Tai (Japanese Geseapo) unit in Timor as an exemplary police force, which had never beaten…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →M.L.C. "Non-Suited," Had Court Exhibits Returned
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A member of the Legislative Council had to have stolen clothes, exhibits at the Central Court, restored to him so that he…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Charged With Rape
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Arrested outside a Newtown church after his wedding ceremony, Leslie Gordon Beard, 21, soldier, was charged…
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GAOL FOR THEFT.—Sentence of two months' imprisonment was imposed on Kenneth Adrian Beech, 19, labourer, for having stolen, at Hamilton on March 16,…
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SYDNEY.—Hundreds of thousands of pounds of irreplaceable Air Force equipment has been stolen in recent months…
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NEW YORK, March 27.—The dismal howling of dogs heard late last night in a sparsely populated neighbourhood in Brooklyn puzzled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sailor "Dropped Anchor" In Police Car
Losing his bearings in the strange sea of Hunter Street early this morning, Alan Hunt, 19, a stoker from H.M.A.S. Bataan, steered himself into a police car parked outside the Police Station, and was about to weigh anchor when the police came aboard and took him into the "brig."…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt) gave notice in the House of Representatives to-day of his intention to…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Strikers from Tooth's brewery agreed to-day at a mass meeting to the unions involved in the dispute applying jointly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Order Naval Workers Back Department Asks Court
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—An application by the Navy Department to have 80 members of the Ironworkers' Federation ordered back to work came…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Peculiar," Says Judge Buyers, Agent and Owner in Court
He had not previously encountered such a peculiar position, either as counsel or judge. Judge Nield said at Cessnock District Court, when…
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