Police Say Man Lit Fires, Helped Put Them Out
GOSFORD, Thursday.—In statements produced at Gosford Coroner's Court, a 21-year-old member of a Gosford Volunteer Fire…
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Courts & crime, 1949
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Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m
REMANDED.—Lovel Thomas Stead. 51, watchman, was remanded till August 4, on £30 bail, on charges of having driven a car in Baker…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brothers Sentenced For Receiving
SYDNEY, Friday—Ronald Singleton, 30. labourer, was sentenced to three years gaol and his brother, Arthur, to two years, at…
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SINGAPORE, July 22. A.A.P.-Reuter.—An 85-year-old Malay was sentenced to death at the Ipoh Assizes to-day for having…
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PARIS, Sat. (A.A.P.).—Hitter's Ambassador to Prance during the occupation, Otto Abetz, was sentenced yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charge of Stealing 90 Doz. Bottles Wine
SYDNEY: An hotel cellarman was charged at Central Court today with stealing; 90 dozen bottles of wine valued at £180…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Convoy Leaves For Western Field
SYDNEY: A convoy of 1 0 trucks and 9 motor-cycle outfits, with 40 plainclothes police aboard, left Sydney early to-day to watch the Sifting of 16,000 tons of coal at grass in the Western districts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Medicine Act Challenge In High Court
SYDNEY: The B.M.A. challenge to the validity of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Act is likely to be heard by the High Court during its current Sydney sitting. Legal advisers of the R M A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Charge 3 Men After Raid On Residential
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Detectives raided a city residential last night arrested three men, and charged them with having assaulted and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Vagrancy
After pleading guilty to vagrancy, Ronald Cummins. 30, laborer gave an insurance that he would have Newcastle today, and was…
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LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.)—Scotland Yard detectives last night detained two Canadian quartermasters and charged…
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SYDNEY: Ronald Albert Loveday (32) gardener, of Miranda, charged with the murder of his cousin, Harold…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—New South Wales and Victorian police have been alerted to watch for two escapees from Beechworth Prison…
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John Edgar Everett, 24, labourer, was sentenced by Judge Nield at Newcastle Sessions yesterday to six months' imprisonment for having…
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MELBOURNE.—Two young convicts who escaped from the Beechworth Reformatory Prison yesterday after overpowering…
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Reginald Royston Walker. 35. laborer, on ex-P.O.W., who served for three years and nine months on the infamous Burma Road, was sentenced…
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A dramatic moment after the Haigh trial at Lewes, Sussex, last week, as Miss Barbara Stephens (standing on the left), watches…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Damages amounting to £1500 awarded against three policemen 10 years ago had not been paid it was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Indecent Language
Patrick Kelliher (48), laborer, pleaded guilty to having used indecent language in Newcomen St. Newcastle, on July 25 and was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Worked Jewel Theft On Merchant, 89
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two men to-day robbed William Peir, 89, diamond merchant, of Bathurst-street, Sydney, of more than £200…
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