Women Pack Court When Man Tried for Teen-ager's Murder
BRISBANE.—A big crowd, mainly women, queued up at the Supreme Court this morning for the second day's hearing of the Brown murder trial…
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Courts & crime, 1947
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Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m
REMANDED.—Jack Altchinson, 41, traveller, was remanded to March 24 on a charge of having driven a car in Everton-street, Hamilton, while he was…
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DARWIN, Monday—Before Judge Wells, Andrew Wells, 43, labourer, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for having shot John…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Boys' Soccer
The Soccer football section of Newcastle Police Boys' Club will hold a meeting on March 12. The club expects a return visit…
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ADELAIDE, Monday. — The decomposed bodies of eight babies, some believed to have been dead for nine months, were found by police on…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The police recruitment age was lowered to-day by State Cabinet from 21 to 10. The decision was reached on the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A chase from Katoomba to Gladesville, during which six shots were fired by police, resulted in the arrest of three youths…
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BRISBANE, Monday. — Notes which the police alleged Reginald Wingfield Brown, 49, accountant, had claimed he had recorded of…
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SYDNEY: A railway man told the Supreme Court to-day that a printed circular had given him the impression that union subscriptions were being increased to finance a trip by his State President to New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Economic Staff To Assist The Arbitration Court An Australian economic staff or council, to investigate and advise, is advocated in this article. One section would undertake economic study and planning, while the other would be attached to the Arbitration Court for the sifting, digesting, and summarising of the detail evidence submitted
FOR some time past, thinkers in many countries have noted national and international inability to coordinate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mother Gave Son to Police for Rape, Murder
MALDEN (Massachusetts), Tuesday: A mother solved the rape-slaying of an ll-year-old schoolgirl by handing over her 17-year-old son to the police. The youth, Robert Coombes, im-…
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OTTAWA, Tuesday: David Gordon Lunan, who is already serving a five year term, for espionage, was sentenced to one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Charged With Wounding Wife
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Mrs. Isobel Williamson, 35, of Barkly-street, Richmond, was shot and seriously wounded while walking along…
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REMANDED.—Francis Andrew Burg, 23, carpenter, Was remanded to April 8 on charges of having driven a car in Maitland-road, Islington, on February…
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Patrolling Parry Street in the vicinity of No. 1 Sports Ground on the evening of February 24, Detective-Constable C. B…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd) Negligent Driving Charge
Robert E. Ryman, Ridge Street, Merewether, who, police alleged, drove his motor car across the intersection of Auckland with Hunter Street at 50 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Truck Took Babe to Hospital
SYDENY, Tuesday. — Carrying a premature baby wrapped in cotton wool, a police utility truck travelled…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Court Upholds Padre's Appeal
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—An appeal by Padre P. H. Hodge, Secretary of the Society for the Defence of Native Rights, against a conviction…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Loved Cripple, Slew Husband, Court Told
LONDON, Tuesday: Because 34-year-old Rosina Ann Cornock developed a passion for a crippled man, she murdered her husband in a bath, the Crown alleged at her trial. Mrs. Cornock pleaded not guilty…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.— In the City Court to-day John Saunders Parker, 45, of Glen Iris, former General Secretary of the Australian…
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