Ask Police To Check Waratah Speeding
Traffic police will be asked by Waratah South Progress Association to have a patrol watch for excessive speeding on Christo and…
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Courts & crime, 1949
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Escapee Captured On Beach By Melbourne Police
MELBOURNE. — masquerading as a merchant navy officer, Frederick Robert Simpson. 23, the armed escapee, was…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A. Podmore will probably ride the light-weight, Skip Court, in the Challenge Stakes…
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LONDON, Thurs. (O.S.R.)—The famous airman Group-Captain E. M. Donaldson sat in the Divorce Court today wondering who his wife was—the typical…
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SUSPENDED SENTENCE. — Gordon Lawrence Duncan, 25, salesman, came up for sentence on a charge of having stolen, between March and…
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TOKYO, Jan. 21. A.A.P.-Reuter. —The Teikoku Bank poison-robber suspect, Sadamichi Hirazawa, claimed to-day that he had been driven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Capture Missing Convict
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Dressed as a naval officer, an escaped convict was recaptured by police to-day. The convict, Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Find Man Under Counter
SYDNEY: Noticing a smashed window in a Rozelle shop early today, police crawled through the jagged aperture…
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VIENNA, Jan. 21. A.A.P.—Cardinal Mindszenty, Primate of Hungary, was questioned by the police for 82 hours without interval…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Guard Crowds At Olivier Play
LONDON, Jan. 21. A.A.P.—Extra police protected celebrities entering a West End theatre for Sir Laurence Olivier's first night in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Court Before Mr. G. C. Hook, S.m
VAGRANCY.—John Everett McGrory, 48, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for vagrancy. Constable Savage said McGrory…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Court (Before Mr. C. H. Whiting. J.p.) Bemanded
A man vas remanded to Monday I on £50 ball on a serious charge against a girl aged 10 years and 12 months at Hexham on Jan. 18…
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Money and jewellery, valued at £50, were stolen from a cottage in Gosford-road, The Entrance, on Saturday afternoon…
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SYDNEY.—Champion Jockey David Hugh ("Darby" Munro (35) arrived at Kogarah Court today with a black discoloration…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Drove While Drunk
Phillip Aston Jowers, 25, porter, pleaded guilty to a charge of having driven a motor cycle at the Nine Ways, Broadmeadow, on Jan. 21, while…
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Donald Burt, 22, labourer, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., in Newcastle Court yesterday…
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LONDON, Jan. 24. A.A.P. — The Basuto chieftainess, Lerato, and six followers, were found not guilty to-day of the ritual murder…
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REMANDED.— Laurence Wilfred Garth, 33, motor mechanic, of Wilkinson-avenue. Birmingham Gardens. Wallsend was remanded to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Germans Captured Invasion Plan On Day Of Assault
BERLIN, Tues. (A.A.P.).—The Germans captured the entire Normandy invasion plan in 1944 on the day of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rumanian Militia Replaces Police
MOSCOW, Jan. 24. A.A.P.— The Rumanian Government has issued a decree abolishing the police and gendarmerie, and setting up…
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