Challenge by Parrot Led Man to Court
LISMORE, Wednesday.—A chance remark by a parrot, "Did you want a fight?" resulted in a man being fined at Lismore Police Court on a…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 132
Woman Friend of Mussolini Sentenced to Gaol
PARIS, Jan. 30. A.A.P.—Magda Fontanges, 37, a former friend of Mussolini, has been sentenced to 15 years' hard labour for intelligence…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—At the Burwood Police Court to-day, on 18-year-old girl was committed for trial on a charge of housebreaking…
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GOSFORD.—Charged with having assaulted Barbara Spears with intent to commit rape. Robert Carew, 29, and Norman Stanton, 32, laborers,…
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DISCHARGED.—When Jack Saunders, 23 fettler, was charged with having assaulted Thelma Florence Saunders, at Hexham, on January 15, Mrs. Saunders…
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An important contribution to New castle's 150th anniversary celebrations would be made by the New South Wales police, the Mayor (Ald…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A man shot by police who were investigating an alleged attempt to blow the safe at the Balwyn Theatre on…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Melbourne's "Chinatown" has been subjected to an intense search by a large squad of detectives and police…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Make Little Use of Safety Aids; U.s. Airlines Charged
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. A.A.P.—Commercial airlines made little or no use of radar and bad weather landing aids, although they were available for them at several naval aerodromes, according to…
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LAPAZ (Bolivia), Jan. 30. A.A.P.—The newspaper, "La Razon," says that at least 10 police were killed and 50 injured when striking…
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LONDON, Jan. 30. A.A.P.—Two policemen led Rev. W. St. Clair Taylor, the General Director of the National Union…
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SYDNEY: Fines totalling £185 were imposed at the Special Federal Court today on wholesale and retail butchers convicted of breaches of the National Security Regulations. Addressing one defendant, Mr…
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.—Police investigating the mutilation and murder of Elizabeth Short, an attractive 22-year-old brunette, have…
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MELBOURNE: While no arrest lias yet been made for the murder of the Chinese bosun, Yung Shing (53), in a sedan car in Flinders Street Extension and the shooting of the driver, Albert Sidney Pack, a half-caste Chinese,…
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The appointment of an additional magistrate at Newcastle was being considered, said the Minister for Justice (Mr. Downing), in a reply to a…
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BUNDABERG, Friday.—Detectives are investigating the theft of a heavy safe containing £1000 from the premises of Bert Palm, motor…
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NOWRA: "The Bible you have for swearing in witnesses needs replacing in the near future and I will send you another one in…
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When Jerry Colyvas, proprietor of The Astoria restaurant in Hunter Street, found two men in a lavatory on the premises on Thursday night…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Chinese seamen from the British liner, Sarpedon, who were gaoled after charges at Central Court, on November 11,…
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REMANDED.—Charged with having driven a car in Hunter-street on August 24, while under the influence of liquor, driven dangerously, and having caused…
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