Divorce Court
Sixty-three petitions, including three defended matters, were heard in the past two weeks by Mr. Justice Bonney at the sitting of the…
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Courts & crime, 1949
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Police Seek Ringleaders of Petrol Ticket Frauds
MELBOURNE.—Detectives who have been investigating the biggest counterfeit petrol coupon fraud in Australia since fuel rationing was introduced in 1940 are satisfied that the tickets were forged in Melbourne and that many were printed…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday-Police are examining clothing given by John George Haigh, charged with the murder of a wealthy widow…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Hearing of a charge of offensive behaviour against a trade-union leader resulted in the hold-up 28 ships…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday.—The State President of the B.M.A. (Dr. A. Lamphee) said late to-night that as Soon as the Federal Government…
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MELBOURNE: The child registered as Nola Jenkins will remain the custody of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Jenkins, of Kyneton. The State Full Court, today…
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OFFENSIVE BEHAVIOUR.—For having behaved offensively in Scott-street, outside the Air Force Club, on March 23, William Coombes, 23…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Court At Kurri (Before Mr. P. R. Wood, S.m.) Committed for Trial
Herbert John Robertson, 58, was committed for trial at Maitland Quarter Sessions on March 28 on a dharge of having at Stanford…
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The following police transfers in the North-eastern Division have been notifiedâConstables W. C. Black, from Scone to West…
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WASHINGTON, Fri. (A.A.P.): For broadcasting for the Germans in wartime, Mildred E. Gillars (Axis Sally), was sentenced today to 10 to 30 years' gaol for treason and fined 10,000 dollars…
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Three youths, each aged 18, were committed for trial by Mr. E. J. Gibson, in Newcastle Court yesterday, on charges of having…
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SYDNEY.—Three Fijian seamen appeared in Central Court today on a murder charge arising out of an alleged…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Evidence in he Central Summons Court to-day was that Azzalin O. Romano, race-horse owner and Sydney…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Three Fijian seamen were charged by provisional warrant to-night with the murder of two Indian seamen at Port…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Deportation of two Chinese—Cheung Hing, 48, cafe proprietor, of Collingwood, and Kwong Shoo, 36,…
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THE administration of law is of paramount importance to this community and demands that the machinery and means thereof should…
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Stanley Ronald Hicks, 40, laborer, of Mackle Ave., New Lambton, was charged with having at New Lambton between March 23 and 34 stolen…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—After a triple car smash on the Western Highway near Penrith to-day in which two men were injured, police…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Jack Dacey, 38, of Starr-street, Cootamundra, interstate truck driver, told police last night that three men had assaulted…
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NEW YORK, March 27.—Harry Jones, who met and married his bride in prison, is spending his honeymoon there, too. He is…
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