Tokio Court Rejects Jap Objections
TOKIO, May 17 A.A.P.—The War Crimes Tribunal rejected all the defence motions attacking the Court's jurisdiction and seeking the…
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Courts & crime, 1946
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Would Not Make Order Humiliate Court, Says Judge
SYDNEY, Friday.—He would not humiliate the Court by making an order which could not be enforced, said Judge O'Mara in the…
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Film star, Constance Bennett, who was fined 50 dollars or five days' goal recently for having driven 50 miles an hour in a…
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After an arrest was made by detectives at the week end a quantity of stolen property was recovered. In several instances the owners did not…
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When police saw 194 bottles of beer in a partly-furnished room in Tudor Street, Hamilton, on February 8, they had doubts whether the occupier, David Pooley, had come by the liquor honestly, and arrested…
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SYDNEY: The Premier (Mr. McKell) said today that he did not doubt the truthfulness of reports presented to him by police…
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Three men who were involved in a struggle with a police constable in Hunter Street on Saturday night, pleaded guilty to charges of assault…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
FOR TRIAL.—Ronald Wilson, 21, labourer, was committed for trial at News castle Sessions on May 27 on a charge of having broken into the home [?]…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The famous police dog, Zoe, who had helped raise thousands of pounds in public appeals, died in her kennel at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol Wedding For Murderer After 30 Years "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, May 20.—A convicted murderer, who escaped from a Florida prison and had been a fugitive for more than 30 years was,…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Thirteen members of the engineroom staff of the British freighter Ocean Vigil appeared at the City Court to-day…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—Police alleged to-day at the Coroner's Court that a surgical instrument was found in the abdomen of a woman two…
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SYDNEY: Organisations such as the Police Boys' Club, which fostered gambling and did not provide for religious training, were a threat to other Youth Groups, a speaker alleged at the Presbyterian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Meat Carters Not Under Butchers' Award, Says Court
A case of interest to butchers and carters-whether the M.I. E.U. award relating to starting times covered men engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Court Seeks Hotel Quota "Man Had 194 Bottles of Beer"
Directing that evidence be obtained of the consignments of bottled beer to the Town Hall Hotel. Wanatah, during the period, the Magistrate…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A doctor and his wife were charged at Central Court to-day with having unlawfully used an instrument on a married…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gypsy Woman Fined £30 For Stealing
Annie Sterio, 40, the Gypsy who blessed a roll of £1 notes and with her nimble fingers extracted three of them, was fined £30 or 60 days'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
CONSTABLE ASSAULTED.—For having assaulted Constable R. S. Kerr in the execution of his duty. William Wilkins, 21, an English seaman was fined £10…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The police report on the recent meeting at the Sydney Town Hall organised by the Citizens' Rights Committee has been…
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LONDON, May 21. A.A.P.—Mrs. Ella Staunton, 30. was murdered in her manicure salon in Liverpool last night while two detectives were…
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