Newcastle Court (Before Mr. E. J. Gibson, S.m.)
NO ACTION.—No action was taken when Catherine Ellen Risden, 72, home duties, was charged with having broken a bond entered into on March…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Woman Charged With Murder
TOWNSVILLE. —Bare-footed and dressed in a sleeveless yellow jumper, a heavily built housewife, Pearl Garneau Delf…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Sydney detectives visited Warimoo, near Springwood, in the Blue Mountains, to-night to investigate a report that…
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SYDNEY.—Arrested today, a man was charged at Penrith Police Station with attempting to rape a 78-year-old woman…
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LAUREL (Mississippi), March 7. A.A.P.—Willie McGee, a young negro, has been sentenced for the third time to die in the electric…
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SYDNEY: With the Chief Justice (Sir Frederick Jordan) dissenting, the Full Court refused today to grant a new trial to two men who murdered a jockey…
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AUCKLAND, Sunday.—Mrs. Pansy Louise Frances Haskell, 49, was found guilty by a jury yesterday of the murder of Mrs. Gladys…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Police Find Hidden Arms
PARIS, March 7. A.A.P.—The discovery of five tons of arms in a lorry hidden in a garage on the outskirts of Paris and the detention…
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Police Boys' Club team won the City and Suburban A grade major premiership for the first time when it defeated Mayfield on Saturday…
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TOWNSVILLE, Monday.—Pearl Garneau Delfs, 60, was charged at Townsville Police Court to-day with the murder of her husband,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Six casks of sausage skins valued at nearly £2000 have been reported stolen from Waterside Cold Stores Pty…
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BRISBANE: Two hundred pickets were moved by police from the gates of the Shell Company's main Brisbane depot today. Storemen and packers who refused yesterday to join the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Sentence of death imposed on two men for the murder of a jockey was allowed to stand when the men, in the State…
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MELBOURNE: The Federal Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt, K.C.) became momentarily ill while addressing the Full High Court in the banking case today. It is the ninth day of his…
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REMANDED.—Charged with having behaved offensively in Denison-street, Hamilton, on March 5, Frank Cavanagh Peters, 37, labourer, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.m.) Stole Beer Glasses
After drinking trree glasses of beer at the Centennial Hotel, Newcastle, yesterday, Frederick Brooks, 25, laborer, placed the glasses inside his…
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ROME, Wed. (A.A.P.) — Charges against Monsignor Eduarado Prettner Cippico include forgery, dealing in foreign…
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Newcastle Police and Citizens' Boys' Club is having difficulty cramming its 4797 regularly attending members into its…
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SYDNEY: Three policemen were injured, two seriously, when a patrol car and a tram smashed head-on in…
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WASHINGTON March 9. A.A.P.—The Supreme Court ruled that religious training in public school buildings was…
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