Enthusiasm For Beetles Led To Gaol Sentence
LONDON, June 10. A.A.P.—When 26-year-old Elphinstone Gilmour, an enthusiastic member of the Royal Society of Entomologists,…
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Courts & crime, 1949
2,591 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 54 of 130
Mysterious Rapping Baffles Police
SYDNEY: A two-hour investigation by four police and several neighbours failed to explain mysterious knockings which terrified two women and three young children in a Mortdale cottage last night…
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MELBOURNE: Following the wounding of a farmer in the Corryong district during a quarrel a large police party is…
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At Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday, Mr. Justice Bonney granted a decree nisi in favour of Kathleen Jefterles, formerly Fil[?]puzzi, of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Two occupants of an allegedly stolen hire car were badly injured late to-night when the vehicle crashed after…
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FINED FOR THEFT.—Leslie Robert Nevin, 28, clerk, was fined £15 for having stolen, between April 14 and April 28, at Mayfield, two…
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SYDNEY: Two young men, seriously injured in a car smash after an 80 m.p.h. chase by police through the city last night, are still under police guard in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. The men, aged 26 and 29…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Detectives late to-day arrested a 24-year-old cave dweller at Collaroy and charged him with the theft of…
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MET BOURNE: The death of a woman at her home at Richmond yesterday is being Investigated by homicide…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Police believe schoolboys started a fire which caused damage estimated at £100 at Granville Public School this…
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PERTH: Police believe that a Kaleroorlie woman poured a cleansing fluid over her nightdress and set fire to herself…
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SYDNEY: A 24-year-old grocer, charged with scaling 9252 company shares from a Collaroy doctor's home on…
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SYDNEY. — A 39-year-old clerk was sentenced to 12 months' hard labor at Burwood Court today for stealing…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — A 23-year-old man, alleged to have seized a 10-year-old girl and dragged her into the bush at Fairlight,…
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CANBERRA, Monday.—A man who arrived in Canberra by train last night was charged to-day with participation in the Botany hold-up…
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A 13-year-old Latvian boy, who has been in Australia only 2½ months, was interpreter at Maitland police station yesterday, when a…
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SYDNEY: — Greatly alarmed by the increasing number of shooting accidents, the police…
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HONGKONG, June 13. A.A.P.-Reuter. —Hongkong police are concucting a wide search by land and [?] a for the remnants of a gang of…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.).—An Appeal Court has reduced from one month's imprisonment to a £5 fine the sentence…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—"A general good kicking," alleged to have been given to a woman by a labourer, resulted in a fractured nose, a…
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