Police Pay Rise Brings Recruits
SYDNEY, Monday.—Since the rise in police pay, daily applications to join the force had more than doubled, and since recruiting…
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Courts & crime, 1947
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MacArthur Challenged; Bitter War Court Argument
TOKYO, Jan. 27. A.A.P.—A bitter half-hour argument between the President of the Japanese War Crimes Tribunal (Sir William Webb) and the U.S. attorney for the defence (Mr. David Smith) followed…
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The dramatic dawn rescue by police of two youths who had jumped the cliff-top fence at King Edward Park on January 12 on to a projecting ledge below was described at the Newcastle Police Court today…
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REMANDED.—Charged with having failed to stop after an accident and with having failed to report an accident. Robert Lawrence Carroll, 25, shunter,…
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SYDNEY: A man charged at Kogarah on Saturday with the attempted murder of his wife, collapsed and died in…
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JERUSALEM, Tuesday.—A Jewish warder was killed and 13 convicts were injured when fighting broke out again yesterday between Arabs and…
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The Commissioner of Police (Mr. MacKay) left Newcastle by air yesterday for Tamworth. Mr. MacKay, who arrived here on…
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LONDON, Jan. 28. A.A.P.—Police arrested Lady Elizabeth Victoria Noon, 30-year-old English wife of Sir Firozkhan Noon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gas Plant Brickmen to Go to Court
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Bricklayers and carpenters employed at gas works in Sydney decided at a mass meeting to-day to ask the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — The Acting Chief Judge of the Federal Arbitration Court (Judge Drake-Brockman) told the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Germans Sentenced to Death
DACHAU, Jan. 20. A.A.P.—An American military court has sentenced to death by hanging three Germans who admitted they shot five…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wallsend Police Court (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, S.M.)
Cecil Kendrick Gray pleaded guilty to having driven an unregistered motor cycle, which also was not Insured, on Sandgate Road on October 28. On the first charge…
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Three youths, against whom there was a total of 46 charges of breaking, entering and stealing, were committed for trial at the Quarter…
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BETTING CHARGE.—A remand to February 28 was granted when William John Jones 40, storeman, was charged with having been in the public bar of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Charged at Kogarah Court on Saturday with the attempted murder of his wife, Austin Rhoden, 32, boilermaker's assistant,…
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"All the resources of the Police Department will be placed at the disposal of the 150th Anniversary Committee to help make the…
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LONDON, Wednesday: Scotland Yard considers that an extraordinary chapter of accidents caused a doctor and a woman to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Boys Back from Camp
A party of 23 Newcastle boys returned to Newcastle this week from a week's visit to the Camp MacKay, at Kurrajong…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Mrs. Florence Ethel Livesey attended the Supreme Court to-day to give evidence before the Deputy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Divorce Action Defended in Newcastle Court
William Strang Giles Cleary, clerk, of Stockton, petitioned before Mr. Acting Justice Nield in the Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday for a…
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