'Frisco Police 'Teased' Fan Dancer
SAN FRANCISCO, Wednesday: Twice arrested for indecency in 24 hours, fan dancer Sally Rand gave a "semi-strip tease" act, wearing…
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Courts & crime, 1946
2,563 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 59 of 129
Cemetery Murder Detectives Take Clothing From House In Sydney
SYDNEY.—Inquiries into the murder of Joan Norma Norris. 11. of Newtown, developed today, when detectives visited a house…
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"This young man appears to be drifting badly. He is definitely of the vagrant type and a month in gaol might do him some good," said…
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Following a raid on a house in Broadmeadow, she told her husband he had "dingoed it" by running away and leaving the…
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William Townsend Withnell, miner at Stanford Main colliery, applied yesterday to the Workers Compensation Commission in New…
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"WILL TAKE RISK."—When Walter Murphy, 22, labourer, appeared for sentence on a charge of vagrancy at Newcastle, the Magistrate said he thought…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →15 Years' Gaol for Jewish Terrorists
JERUSALEM, June 27. A.A.P.—Thirty members of Irgun Zvai Leumi (Jewish terrorist organisation) found guilty of charges of carrying…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—During the past two days detectives investigating the murder of Joan Norma Ginn, 11, of Newtown, have concentrated…
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BOSTON, Thursday. Eighteen-year-old Helen Stavron bared her breasts to an all-male jury today to show scars which, she said, were the cigarette-branded initials of an army flier…
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Fourteen undefended petitions were heard by Mr. Justice Bonney at the Matrimonial Causes Court, Newcastle. CLIFFORD v. CLIFFORD…
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Colonel and Captain Durant, who were arrested in Chicago on charges associated with the disappearance of the Hesse Darmstadt Crown jewels, valued at £375,000. The picture was taken when the Colonel and his wife were in Paris, on their way to…
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SYDNEY: Following telephone calls from a man who allegedly admitted having murdered Joan Norma Norm, 11,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blonde Smuggled Gun Into Gaol: Police Allegation
NEW YORK, Friday. — Blonde pretty Louise Iacouzzi is being held on 10,000 dollars bail in New York under suspicion of having smuggled…
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Donald Leslie Mittendorf, 19, labourer, was committed in Newcastle Police Court yesterday for trial on a charge of having assaulted a woman…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Convicted of armed robbery, Allan Harry Boyce Anderson, 24, motor-driver of Redfern, was sentenced to 10 years'…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£400 Ring Theft in Sydney Smash-Grab Raid
SYDNEY, Friday.—In full view of hundreds of shoppers this afternoon, a man smashed the window of a jeweller's shop at Newtown, grabbed…
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SYDNEY.—The police are still awaiting the report of the Government microbiologist on clothing seized in a house at Glene on Thursday…
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LONDON, June 28.—Smilingly entering the dock to answer a murder charge, a 31-year-old ship's baker, Thomas Hendren, smiled as he left…
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BERLIN, Friday. — Just to make quite sure how he stands an American Army captain has ordered his own court-martial in…
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NEW YORK, Friday: Three Kentucky tenants highly praise their landlord, Morris Davis, who has gone to gaol for contempt of court for…
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