Only One Gave Police Aid, Witness Says
When Sergeant G. H. Boyd, of Belmont, called on a crowd of spectators at an accident to help him arrest Robert James Dobson, 33…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Fire Damage To Records Delays Court Hearing
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Damage to records during the fire which gutted part of Rawson Chambers, Sydney, last Tuesday, delayed the…
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GAOL FOR THEFT.—Edward McIntosh, 44, rigger, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for having stolen, at Newcastle, on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, 8.M.) Traffic Breaches
Failure to heed a signal to stop on May 29 cost Edward Hayes, McMichiel-st., Maryville, 14s 6d with 5s 6d costs. Hayes claimed that he…
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A walking stick, broken into three pieces, a piece of glass and a bottle of gin were exhibits at Newcastle Court yesterday, when…
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Spectators at a "brawl" between Sergeant Boyd, of Belmont, and another man, following a motor accident on the Pacific Highway,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED.—Allen Alfred Kermond, 41, driver, was remanded to October 12, on £20 bail, on a charge of having stolen four coils of wire,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hollywood Police To Smash Drug Ring "Herald" Service and A.A.P.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.—A full-drug scale clean-up of Hollywood drug addicts, including smashing the ring which supplies the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prague Police Warn Benes Mourners
LONDON, September 5. A.A.P. —Mourners for Dr. Benes were warned to keep moving by Prague police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Joke Was Costly
Maurice Alexander Woods, 30, shunter, who deflated a police motor cycle tyre in Elizabeth-st., Tighe's Hill, on Sept. 4 for a joke was fined £2…
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SYDNEY: A 35-year-old man who, the Crown said, had shown cunning in luring a nine-year-old girl into the bush at Hillsborough near Newcastle on May 28 was sentenced in the Central Criminal Court today to six years' imprisonment. He was Richard Albert Ford,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Matthew Torpey, 54, railway linesman, was found not guilty, on the ground of insanity, of the murder of his wife,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Outpaced By Stolen Car
SYDNEY, Monday—A powerful car, which police believe was stolen for use in committing a major crime, eluded patrol cars in…
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BERLIN, Tues (A.A.P.): German police in the Russian sector of Berlin yesterday broke into the City Council building and took away, in handcuffs, a number of policemen from the Western sector…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seamen's Pay Claim Rejected By Court
SYDNEY: Claims by the Seamen's Union for extra pay which led to a threatened tie-up of shipping throughout Australia recently were rejected today by Mr. Hamilton Knight, Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
STOLE BICYCLE.—For having stolen a bicycle, valued at £10, the property on John James Moss, at Mayfield, on March 12, 1947, Clark…
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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 7. A.A.P. —Two men, one of whom earlier had accused the other of stealing from him—…
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SYDNEY: Developments in the search for four thugs who brutally bashed two men and two women at Rose Bay last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stable Foreman Charged At Dick Turpin Inquiry
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—V.R.C. stewards to-day charged J. Hayes, a stable foreman to the trainer, W. Duncan, with having…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →File No Bill on Murder Charge
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Crown declined to file a bill against Mrs. Mabel Flora Rowe, 52, of Lakemba, who was committed for trial on a…
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