Police Prevent Willie Jones From Fighting
AUCKLAND, Wednesday.—Police to-day refused permission for the scheduled fight between the American negro, Willie Jones, and the New…
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Courts & crime, 1947
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Kurri Police Court
At Kurri Kurri Police Court, before Messrs. W. O. Pickering and P. Johnson, J.'sP., Harold Henderson, 47, and James Kean, 41, plended "Guilty" to a charge…
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REMANDED.—Raymond Andrew Fitzgerald, 32, railway porter, was remanded to April 10 on £10 ball, on a charge of having stolen, at Hamilton, between…
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Motorist Fined.—Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having driven a motor vehicle in a negligent manner at the intersection of Bulwer and High Streets,…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—An affidavit produced min the Court of Criminal Appeal to-day claimed that Frederick Lincoln McDermott, 38, labourer,…
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Meat Industry employees at a largely attended mass meeting at Newcastle Trades Hall last night decided against working to-morrow morning. Their decision—…
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SYDNEY: A painter was charged at Central Court today with having stolen 18 tons of brass rods belonging to the…
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LONDON, Saturday: There will be no death sentence for the men charged with killing Matteotti, the Italian anti-Fascist leader 23…
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SAN FRANCISCO, Friday: Experts think that brooding 17-year-old Buelah Overell may be under the hypnotic influence of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Admitted Social Sin, Forgave Theft Of Bible "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, April 4.—A thief entered the Community Church, Park-avenue, and stole a leather-bound pulpit Bible weighing…
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One effect of the further amendment of the wage-pegging regulations will he to make the Arbitration Court stand in as whipping…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Organise Wide Search for Taxi Bandits: Adamstown Theft
Every detective available is engaged in the search for the armed bandits who held up and robbed a taxi-driver, Cecil John Hann, of Waratah, early yesterday morning…
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NUREMBURG, Monday: Herbert Backe, Nazi Pood and Agriculture Minister from 1942 until the end of the war, has committed suicide in a Nuremburg prison…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Says Heiress On Murder Charge Semi-Hypnotised "Herald" Service
LOS ANGELES, April 6.—Louise Overell, the 17-year-old heiress, who is charged with the murder of her parents, is in state of…
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LONDON, April 6.—Currency smugglers from Britain, and contraband smugglers into Britain, are providing serious problem for…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—The President of the A.C.T.U. (Mr. Clarey, M.L.C.) told the A.L.P. Easter conference that the A.C.T.U…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Say Man Broke Into House To Commit Rape
SYDNEY: On a charge of having broken into a house at Revesby this morning with intent to commit rape. Brace Colin…
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LONDON, April 7.—England's latest line in high-class burglaries is the work of a costly carpet gang. There is art in the game the way…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Betting Bag Theft: Wish Punters Had My Money, Says Bookmaker
SYDNEY: A.J.C. Paddock bookmaker, A. H. Paradine, whose bag containing £904 was stolen from his car yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Stabbed To Death, Say Police
SYDNEY, Monday.—William Devlin Crombie, 39, draughtsman, of Redmyre-road, Strathfield, died, allegedly from a stab wound, in a…
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