£23,000 Theft Is Alleged
MELBOURNE: Detectives are seeking a young accountant suspected of having robbed his employers, an engineering…
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Courts & crime, 1949
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 130
Official Is Charged With Taking Rewards For Favors
LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.)—A Boar d of Trade official, Edmund Hadfield, has been charged with accepting rewards for showing favors. Hadfield appeared at Bond-st. Court yesterday on four…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Women Rush Acid Murder Trial "Herald" Service
LONDON, March 3.—Women tore each other's clothes and knocked off policemen's helmets as they rushed the door of the centuries-old Town Hall at Horsham where John George Haigh, 40, company…
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Police early this morning arrested a man and charged him with breaking, entering and stealing from a display window in the Bargain…
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FRANKFURT, Fri. (A.A.P.): Three Russians who broke the American "siege" of the Soviet Repatriation Mission were caught by U.S. military police…
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REMANDED.—John Lennan, 30, labourer, was remanded to March 21, on £30 ball on charges of having assaulted James Augustus Ham,…
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Two brothers, who, police allege, admitted having broken into 22 shops and offices in the West End, were committed for trial at…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Criminal Investigation Branch detectives now believe Allen Ettles Larnach, 28, farmhand, of Calloola, near…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Siamese Police Kill Cabinet Ministers
BANGKOK, Sat. (A.A.P.)— Siamese police killed four former Members of Parliament when they tried to escape, after being arrested. Three of those killed were…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Attorney-General (Mr. Martin) will open a new Quarter Sessions Trial Court on Monday. The new Court is…
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SHOPLIFTING.—Alice Flexman 41 dressmaker, was fined £3 for having stolen a pair of socks, valued at 10/6, the property of W. Winn &…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. G. C. Hook. S.m.) Gaol for Vagrancy
For having had no lawful means of support, Henry Wingfield Willis 57. seaman. was sentenced to one month's gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Alleged Spies Stay In Gaol: Release Asked
NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): Valentine Gubitchev. 42, Soviet U.N.O. official, remained in a Federal gaol today, despite a demand by the Soviet Ambassador (M. Panyushkin) that he be released. Bail of 100,00 dollars (£31,000)…
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SYDNEY: After a 42-year-old timber cutter had allegedly battered a young woman to death at Taree on November 18 he called at a neighbor's place and said, "Here's the money; go and ring the police," the Crown declared at Central Criminal Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Human Foot Found in Murder Probe "Herald" Service and A.A.P.
LONDON, March 6.—A human foot has been found in a builder's workshop in Southern England by Scotland Yard men engaged on the acid bath murders case…
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SYDNEY: A 42-year-old timber worker, in his defence in Central Criminal Court today on a charge of having murdered a young woman at Taree on November 18, said that she met her death accidentally and added: "I was passionately fond of her."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Airman Wounded: American Charged
KARACHI, March 7. A.A.P. Reuters.—Captain Raymond Gifford, an Australian pilot, of Arcadia-street, Sydney, received…
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CANBERRA.—A prosecution against Mr. L. L. Sharkey, general secretary of the Australian Communist Party, for seditious…
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ROCKHAMPTON.— Arthur Gerald Huet, 38, dairyman, was charged in the Court of Petty Sessions today with the…
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LITHGOW, Monday.—A 17-year-old Lithgow girl appeared before two Js.P. in Lithgow Children's Court to-day charged with…
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