Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. E. J. Gibson, S.m.) Insulted Constable
Douglass Williams, 20, painter and docker, was fined £2 for having used insulting words to Constable Ferrier in Downie-st., wickham, yesterday…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Man Is Charged With Taronga Park Killing
SYDNEY: James Michael Murray (30), laborer, was charged before Mr. Hawkins, S.M. in Central Court today with the murder of Mrs. Avice Victoria Gasking (57), at Taronga Park on Thursday…
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Charged with having driven a utility truck in Hunter St., Newcastle, on June 11 while under the influence of liquor, William…
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A man walked into Newcastle police station yesterday afternoon and said he had murdered Mrs. Avice Gasking in Sydney on Thursday. The man was taken to Sydney…
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REMANDED.—Brynolf Viggo Holmstrom, 18, seaman, was remanded to June 21 on charges of having unlawfully assaulted Reginald Gordon…
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KATOOMBA, Sunday.—A 19-year-old youth has been charged with an assault on a middle-aged, married woman…
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SYDNEY: Tall, powerfully-built Percy Charles Neville (32), laborer, was charged at Central Court today with the murder of Francis John Beaumont Allard (40). He was remanded until June…
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SYDNEY.—Aubrey Herbert Davies (42), who escaped from Broken Hill gaol on Saturday night, left a note on his bunk…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Bernard Fabian Greentree, 26, of Killarney, near Windsor, was charged at Windsor police station with…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—In Central Police Court yesterday morning, James Michael Murray, 30, labourer, was charged with the murder…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Detectives intercepted a car near Camden early this morning and detained a man in connection with the murder…
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AUCKLAND, Sunday.—Five prisoners who escaped from prison camp on Friday have all been recaptured…
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An unusual "trial" was conducted at Shoal Bay, Port Stephens, last night when the Liberal Youth…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Percy Charles Neville, 39, labourer, was charged in the Central Police Court to-day with the murder of Francis…
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BROKEN HILL, Monday.— Police late to-day recaptured a man who escaped from a cell on Saturday night and left a note saying…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Husbands had no more right to assault their wives than to assault other people, Mr. Hodgson, S.M., said in Central…
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DISCHARGED.—The police had no evidence to offer when William Henry Cook, 36, loco driver, was charge, with having driven a utility truck…
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Joseph Henry Davis, 48, lorry, driver, was fined £8 for having driven a truck in Donald St., Hamilton, on May 22 while under the influence…
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SYDNEY.—A chemist who stole 300 grains of cocaine which he administered to himself, was today sentenced to…
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CANBERRA, Wednesday.—A former Prices Branch investigator, Dr. Jack Rowlands Atcherley, 58, of Canberra, was sentenced by Mr…
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