Murder Trial Opens Without Body
BATHURST, Monday.—The trial was unusual because the body of William Henry Layers had not been found, said the Crown Prosecutor…
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Courts & crime, 1947
2,634 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 17 of 132
Man Arrested at Gunpoint on Jewel Theft Charge
SYDNEY, Monday.—Within a few hours of an armed hold-up in a city jeweller's shop in which £8500 worth of jewellery was snatched from the counter, police arrested a young man at revolver…
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After hearing evidence yesterday at an inquest in the Cessnock Court-house on Edward Vincent Whelan and Noel Maxwell, the District…
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MELBOURNE: Whether the man detained in a house in York Street, Sale, last night by detectives searching for the murderer of Harry Napper, 58, and his daughter, Phyllis, 20, had tried to drown himself, is being inquired into…
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MURWILLUMBAH, Monday.—Police refused to intervene when asked to eject 30 members of the domestic staff of the Tweed River…
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VENICE, Feb. 17. A.A.P.—Police searched Press representatives and civilians for weapons as they entered the court for the resumed trial of burly, bald Marshal Kesselring before a British…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Senior Detective Donelly and Detective Mooney to-day arrested James Henry Napper, 24, of…
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VAGRANCY.—For vagrancy at Hamilton, Samuel John Abel, 52, labourer, and William Ernest Sara, 47, labourer, were each sentenced to 14 days'…
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GREENVILLE (South Carolina), Feb. 18. A.A.P.—An armed mob of 35 white men lynched a negro whom they had seized from gaol after they…
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SYDNEY: At Parramatta Court today, the mother of three children, Mrs. Doris May Davis (27), was charged with maliciously…
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Sergeant J. Reed, 53, Allandale-road, Cessnock, had his collarbone fractured yesterday and received probable fractured ribs…
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BATHURST, Tuesday.—At the resumed trial of Frederick Lincoln McDermott, 38. labourer, for the murder of William Henry Lavers, near…
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PERTH, Wednesday.—Leonard Charles Jackson, 48, a business man of Kalgoorlie, was sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Walker when the…
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SALE, Wednesday.—James Henry Napper, 24, share farmer, of Sale, was to-day remanded to appear in Melbourne next Wednesday on…
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SYDNEY: Following the recapture of two men who escaped from escort in Redfern. police last night arrested another man and charged him at…
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REMANDED.—Kevin Keith Taylor, 20, clerk, was remanded to Monday, on £20 ball, on a charge of having been found at Williamtown aerodrome with…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.âTwo prisoners who escaped from, custody to-day as they were being taken into Redfern Police Station were recaptured by police to-night at Macdonaldtown Railway…
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SYDNEY: Police guarded every exit at Central Court today when two men were charged with having escaped from police custody at Redfern yesterday. Twenty policemen were in the…
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BRISBANE, Wednesday.—A C.I.B. man ban been sent into western Queensland to follow up what is believed to be the first real clue in the…
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SYDNEY: Giving evidence in Parramatta Court today in the resumed hearing of the case in which 21-year-old airman, Sydney David John McLeod, is charged with rape, Mrs. Hazel Eileen Jones, of Moxham Road, Northmead, said…
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