Court Dismisses Charge Against Okawa
TOKYO, April 9. A.A.P.—The International War Crimes Tribunal to-day dismissed the indictment against the wartime propagandist Dr…
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Courts & crime, 1947
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Hospital Dispute at Taree for Court
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A dispute at the Manning District Hospital at Tarce, involving trainee nurses, had been referred to the Court, the…
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NEW YORK, Wednesday.— The Security Council, at Britain's request, has sent the dispute with Albania about mining the Corfu…
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MELBOURNE: The Full Arbitration Court could not deal with the Metal Trades dispute referred to it by the Minister for Labor (Mr. Holloway) until work was resumed in the industry, the Acting Chief Judge (Judge…
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HOLLYWOOD, April 10. A.A.P.— The crooner Frank Sinatra has been arrested and charged with having assaulted Lee Mortimer, film…
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STRUCK OUT.—The Information was struck out when Thomas Robert Coughtrie, 35, accountant, was charged with having assaulted Percy James…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. E. I. Cocks. S.m.) Unlicensed Wine
About 9.55 p.m. on March 1, Howard Frederick Kellchear night porter employed at the the Terminus Hotel. Scott Street. Newcastle sold a bottle of wine for 4s…
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Newcastle Police Boys' Club has received word that the Queensland Junior Soccer Association will send a representative team to Newcastle…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A jury at Central Criminal Court to-day found Jean Ethel Wright, 31, of Strathfield, not guilty of having murdered her…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—In the Central Court to-day, Sergeant Leonard John Jones said that a woman who used insulting words to police…
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Stating that he was one of the men wanted in connection with an armed hold-up of a taxi-driver at Highfields on Sunday morning, a man gave…
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SYDNEY.—An application by the parents of Mrs. Audrey Elva Cable, who was poisoned by her husband, ex-Constable William…
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SYDNEY: Alleged to have been bitten off 16 months ago, portion of a man's nose was an exhibit in a case at Central Court today. Harold William Vernon Lester, 31…
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An allegation that he was concerned in the armed hold, up of a taxi-driver was made against Robert Johnstone,…
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DISCHARGED.—Robert Gordon Harvey, wharf labourer, of Railway-street, Cook's hill, won pleaded "Not guilty" to a charge at having stolen a car…
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TRIESTE, April 11. A.A.P.—An Allied Military Court sentenced to death Marie Pasquinelli, 34, a school teacher, for the assassination of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The parents of Mrs. Audrey Cable, who was poisoned by her husband, applied to the Equity Court to-day for custody of…
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The Deputy Registrar of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court has summoned the parties in the strike by butchers employed by Cessnock…
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SYDNEY.—Fifty police and 50 civilians, together with police dogs, are combing the rugged country in the Fuller's Bridge area…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M. Indecent Language
For using indecent language in Fern St. Islington. George William Keith Beavan. 38. blacksmith, was fined £2. On a charge of using indecent language…
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