Hotel Outrage Called Murder Of Innocents
JERUSALEM, Tues. (A.A.P.) — The blowing up of the Semiramis Hotel was a "dastardly and wanton murder of…
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Courts & crime, 1948
2,001 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 101
Japs To Die For Murder Of Ps.O.W
TOKYO, Jan. 6.—Sentence of death has been passed by the United States Eighth Army Commission on six guards from the…
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SYDNEY: Detectives are confident of making an early arrest of the three bandits who staged an armed hold-up at the Hotel Arcadia, Pitt-st., last night…
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FINLED FOR THEFT.—John Patrick Kinnane, 31. labourer, was fined £10 for having stolen 10 blocks of chocolate, valued at 8/9, at Newcastle on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Remanded
John Wellington Stedman, 46, laborer. was remanded to Jan. 9 on a charge of breaking, entering and stealing a diamond ring and a…
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SYDNEY: The New South Wales president of the R.S.L. (Mr. Ken Bolton) will broadcast…
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MELBOURNE.—Imposing the maximum sentence of life imprisonment on Cyril Linden Ackerley, 60, of Simpson-st…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Utah Claims Nevada "Stealing" Its Snow
SALT LAKE CITY, Wed. (O.S.R.): The Chamber of Commerce aims to sue the State of Nevada, if Nevada doesn't stop swiping snow from the sky. Nevadans have been perforating clouds bound for Utah…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—John Patrick Lafferty, 33, labourer, was bound over on a £50 bond for a year at Central Court to-day, where…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →U.k. Paratroopers Charged in Cypress
LONDON, January 7. A.A.P.—Cyprus police have arrested 21 paratroopers of the Sixth Airborne Division and charged them with…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—James Milne McDonald, 19, a shipping clerk, appeared in the Central Court to-day, on 40 charges of…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The General Secretary of the Service Station Association of New South Wales (Mr. Gregory) said to-day…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Detectives to-night were still searching for three gunmen who staged a hold-up at the Hotel Arcadia, after…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Judge Berne, of the District Court, has been appointed Acting Supreme Court Judge in the divorce…
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ASSAULTED SHIPMATE.—Fihla Dube. 24 was fined £5 for having unlawfully assaulted Edward Kisten Johns. Both are members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Insulted Policeman
Constable Robertson told the court that while he was arresting a woman for drunkenness in Scott St. last night Paul Healy, 24, airman…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder Followed Kiss Court Told: Woy Woy Case
SYDNEY.—A postman who, it was alleged, quarrelled with a man who had caught him kissing his wife, later returned with a pea-rifle and shot the husband, it was said in Central Court…
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BRISBANE, Thursday.—Isabella Ellen Mary Burton, 34, a widow, was to-day sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment for…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Martin James Walsh, hire car proprietor, of Dec Why, alleged in Central Court to-day that a prices officer…
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SYDNEY.—On a charge of having stolen a car, valued at £127, the property of Elizabeth Ellen Walsh, Noel Smithy 25, Prices officer, and Henry Nathaniel Stratton, 34, dealer, were committed for…
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