Police Follow Blood Trails From Wreck
MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Police followed blood trails for more than 400 yards from a wrecked car last night and arrested three men. The…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Police Plebiscite In June Or July
SYDNEY: The plebiscite by the N.S.W. Police Association on the proposal to affiliate with the Trades and Labor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£3000 Swindle Is Alleged By Police
SYDNEY: With one of the cleverest swindles for years, a confidence man has fleeced at least seven people in N.S.W. of more than £3000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Street Fight
Constable Irwin told the court he saw three men fighting in Wolfe-st., Newcastle, on Friday night. The men were arrested and charged…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A man aged 33, was sentenced in Liverpool Children's Court to-day to three months' hard labour for ill-treating…
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SINGAPORE, April 19.—Forty two men were arrested by auxiliary police in a raid before dawn to-day on labourers' quarters in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Be Tried For Murder Of Step-Father
MELBOURNE, Monday.—John Donnelly, 19, of Ferntree Gully, to-day was committed for trial for the murder of his step-father, John…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED.—Jack Campbell Dick inson, 21, labourer, was remanded to April 28, on £150 bail, on 11 charges of breaking and entering and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Miners Strike As Lewis Awaits Court Sentence
NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): Angry miners stopped work in a number of pits tonight in protest against the conviction for contempt of court of their President (John L. Lewis). More than 3500 men on night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke S.m.) Damage in Cafe
Convicted of having on April 12 maliciously damaged a plateglass window in the Treasury Cafe, Hunter-st., Ronald Shaw (37), traveller…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Author Fined £100, Sentenced To 3 Months
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Robert Shaw Close, author of "Love Me Sailor," was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and fined…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A Criminal Court jury to-day found a 15-year-old boy not guilty of a charge of murder and also of an…
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LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.).—For the first time in centuries, a British judge did not wear the black cap today when he sentenced a man for murder. In place of the long formula…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Upholds Negro Voting Rights
WASHINGTON, April 20. A.A.P.—The Supreme Court ruled that the States cannot legally keep negroes from voting in the primary…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
BROKE A WINDOW.—For having maliciously damaged a plateglass window at the Treasury Cafe, Ronald Shaw, 37, traveller, was fined £2…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Sentenced To Death
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Neville James Murphy, 25, of Canterbury-road, Canterbury, was found guilty in Central Criminal Court to-day of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John L. Lewis Faces Gaol Sentence
NEW YORK, April 21. A.A.P.—The threat of imprisonment still hangs over the President of the United Mineworkers' Union (Mr…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A 40-year-old accountant was committed for trial in Parramatta Court to-day on a charge of having stolen £2304…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Police For Holiday Traffic
The police were making special arrangements to control vehicular traffic on the highways about Newcastle in the Anzac week-end, the…
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An old model motor-cycle, found abandoned in Hunter-street about four years ago, is to be offered at the police sale on May 8…
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