Gaol Threat For Shoplifters
At Newcastle Court of Petty Sessions today Mr. Austin, S.M., said he was determined to stamp out shoplifting in…
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Courts & crime, 1949
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Gaol Not Big Enough For Strikers
QUEBEC, May 8. A.A.P.—So many men were arrested in a riot of striking asbestos workers that the nearest gaol would not hold…
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PORT MORESBY, Sunday.—Charged with the murder of Tom Kessick Bowes, 72, retired public servant, two natives of the Kerema…
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Shoplifting cases seemed to be coming in daily, Mr. H. J. D. Austin, S.M., said in Newcastle Court yesterday. The only way to…
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LONDON, May 9. A.A.P.—Nine men who chained themselves to the railings of the United States Embassy in London on May Day were…
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TAMWORTH, Monday.—Roland Arthur Randall, farmer and grazier, of Bective, near Tamworth, told Mr. J. B. Hodgson,…
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WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.A.P.): The mysterious disappearance in 1937 of a former leading…
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Newcastle Police are trying to trace the owners of a dinghy found adrift near Norahville yesterday…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.): A consistory court yesterday suspended the Rev. Launcelotte Bernard Zacchaeus Davies from his clerical office for two years and particularly from his Lincolnshire benefice of Claxby. He faced six charges under…
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SYDNEY: The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Scott) was today directed by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) to take immediate action against any persons who attempt to conduct football pools in N.S.W…
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PERTH, Monday.—When a detective-sergeant alleged in the Arbitration Court to-day that the minute book of the Hotel, Club and…
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DROVE UNDER INFLUENCE.—Cecil Robson, 45, of Frederick-street Merewether, was fined £10 for having driven a motor car while under…
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Raymond Morriss of Cessnock was, by consent, placed on a £15 bond to be of good behavior for six months when his [?] Mabel…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.— In Central Court to-day Mr. Meagher, S.M., committed William Percy Wagg, of Newtown, for trial on a…
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Herbert Dawnson 73, labourer 'was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday…
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SYDNEY.—Thomas William Price, 22, laborer, of C.B. Chambers, Pitt-st., Sydney, was sentenced to the rising of the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—James Lyon Barton, of Wallerawang House, Wallerawang, who was shot dead last year by William…
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WASHINGTON, May 10. A.A.P. —The disappearance in 1937 of a former top American woman Communist is to be investigated…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — A case before the Full High Court will affect 250 dried -fruit producers and decide whether income…
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Coalmining members of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at 20 mines on the Northern coalfied will hold aggregare meetings on…
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