Police Patrol
THE MILITARY POLICE, seen in Vienna, represent the four-Power police patrol. From left, they are: Russian, American, British and French…
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Courts & crime, 1946
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 37 of 129
Woman on Murder Charge
SYDNEY, Monday.—A woman was charged at Balmain Police Station this afternoon with murder, following the death of Beryl Lange, 20,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.Detectives fired five shots at Edgecliff early this morning in an attempt to apprehend three men seen carrying two large…
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SHANGHAI, April 22. A.A.P.—Major-General Masataka Kaburagi, former Chief of Staff of the Japanese 34th Army, and four subordinate…
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Joachim and Theodore were the names given at Newcastle Police Court of two seamen charged with maliciously damaging a plate glass…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Charged with having murdered Beryl Una Lang, at Balmain yesterday, Phyllis May Evans, 38, was to-day remanded at…
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LONDON, April 23. A.A.P.—Police and dealers are puzzled about the purpose of the thieves who broke into Colonel Astor's Hever Castle…
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James L. O'Brien, 22, laborer. who was convicted yesterday at Newcastle Police Court, on a charge of s[?]eaing a suit of clothes, an overcoat…
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LONDON, Wednesday: The 3000 mutineers in San Vittore Gaol, in Milan (Italy), who are pledged to resist to the death,…
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DID NOT APPEAR.—Joachim and Theodore, two seamen, aged 22 and 33 respectively, who were charged with having maliciously damaged a…
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MILAN, April 23. A.A.P.—Efforts by Cardinal Schuster to mediate in the gaol mutiny failed in the face of wild claims from the 2500 prisoners who are led by dangerous Fascist bandits armed with bombs, explosives and small…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Hero Craved Excitement Fined for Stealing "Herald" Service
LONDON, April 23.—A. 30-year-old clerk, Albert Andrews, who escaped from a German prison camp in the war, craved so much…
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NEW YORK, Tuesday.—Alfred de Marigny, self-styled count, who was acquited of the murder of his father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, Canadian mining magnate,…
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RABAUL, Tuesday.—For the murder of four Chinese prisoners-of-war on New Britain, in April, 1943, a Japanese soldier and a Formosan…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Menzies) to-day criticised Labour's "scandalous" attempt to influence…
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SYDNEY.—Certain passages in "We Were the Rats," a book written by Lawson Glassop, of Newcastle, on the experiences of the A.l.F. in Tobruk were obscene, Mr. Farrington, S.M., decided in Central Court today, and fined Angus…
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SYDNEY: Detectives investigating the death of Robert Bell, 64, old-age pensioner, of Redfern Street, Redfern, who died…
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Copper piping weighing 1504lb. cut in short lengths, was heaped at a side door of the hall used for Teralba Police Court yesterday. It was…
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SENT TO GAOL.—James Lawrence O'Brien, 22, labourer, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment for having stolen a suit at clothes, an overcoat and…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the Newtown Police Court to-day, three men-William Charles Thompson. 21, plasterer, his brother, Roy Sydney…
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