Son Remanded on Murder Charge
SYDNEY, Monday.—Joseph George Eaton, 33, fireman, to-day was allowed £1000 bail and remanded to Central Court on April…
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Courts & crime, 1949
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Fight Leads To Murder Charge
SYDNEY, Monday.—Detectives this afternoon arrested and charged John Williams, 34, labourer, of Sydney, with the murder of Mervyn…
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SYDNEY.—Thousands and thousands of glasses—"a startling proportion"—have been stolen from railway…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Investigations into the murder of the wealthy Maroubra spinster. Miss Mary Fahy, 62, were intensified…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Two native seamen on murder charges reached Sydney in Aorangi to-day, in charge of an Adelaide detective…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—C.I.B. detectives are investigating an allegation by a 13-year-old girl that she was raped in a bus waiting shed…
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ATHENS, April 18. A.A.P.— Police announced that they had arrested 73 communists in Piraeus who were actively engaged in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Chews Gum As He Faces Murder Charge
SYDNEY.—Bail was refused a man in Redfern Court today whom police alleged maliciously and feloniously murdered…
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SYDNEY: Homicide experts, investigating the savage killing of wealthy shopkeeper Miss Mary Fahy, believe they have unearthed a vital clue and are confident of arresting the killer…
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Constant supervision by police during the Easter week-end had been largely responsible for the low accident figures throughout the Hunter district, the Superintendent of Police (M r. Clifford) said today. Supt. Clifford said that every…
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NEW YORK, April 18. A.A.P. —The chief of Harlan County police (Ambrose Metcaffe) was murdered last night in the main…
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NEW YORK, April 18. A.A.P. —While record-breaking crowds of 1,500,000 persons, in their Easter finery, strolled along Fifth Avenue…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The body of John Smith, 80, of Red Range, Glen Innes, who was killed when his horse fell over a log, was…
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SYDNEY: Police investigating the suicide of Professor Wilfred Edward Dyer, at Elizabeth Bay, today will try to interview beautiful and wealthy Sydney socialite, Mrs. Rada Shierlaw, who, it is believed, knew Dyer in Singapore…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—An habitual criminal who escaped from Pentridge Gaol on Sunday night was recaptured this afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police to-day arrested two more men and charged them with the murder of Mervyn Francis Morrison, 26, of…
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Albert George Walker, 37, wheeler, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment by Mr. M. J. D. Austin, S.M., at Newcastle Court…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—On a charge of having wilfully disobeyed a lawful command to take the ship to sea on April 7, 30 members of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Charged with the rape of a young woman at Matraville on December 29 Kenneth Johnston Taylor, 22,…
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PERTH, Tuesday.—The Chairman of the State Committee of the Australian Communist Party (Mr. Kevin Martin Healy) was…
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