Police Re-open Inquiries on Missing People
LONDON, Wed. (AAP).—Following the arrest of John George Haigh (39), a company director on a charge of having murdered…
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Courts & crime, 1949
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Petty Sessions Court. Fined £5 for Assault
At last Tuesday's Petty Sessions Court, Alfred Leslie (38), labourer, was fined £5, in default 10 days hard labour by Mr. A. S. Tuncheon, S.M…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bourke Gaol Provides Four Communists Refuge After Riot 2,000 Townspeople Break Up Meeting BOURKE
Four Communists were rescued by police and locked in the gaol to protect them from two thousand townspeople who threatened to run them out of town. The crowd waited outside the…
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At the Narrabri Court, before Mr. P. G. Focock, S.M., on March 9, Thomas Curtis, of Narrabri, was sent to gaol for twenty-one days without…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quarter Sessions and District Court Put Back One Day. Hearings Now on March 29
The Deputy Clerk of the Peace and Registrar of the District Court, Mr. A. O. Chick, notifies the "Champion" that he received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Dwelling for B'gri Police
Following a report by the Shire Health Inspector on the unhealthy, dilapidated condition of the 80-year-old police residence at Boggabri the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police and Communists Clash in London LONDON
Mounted police charged a crowd of Communist supporters last night during demonstrations against a march of Sir Oswald Mosley's Union movement. Shortly after the march began in the blitzed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comic Court for Sydney Cup SYDNEY
Trainer Jim Cummings said today that Comic Court was a possible runner in the Sydney Cup. He said he had to get in touch with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tennis Court Lighting
The Tennis Association has asked Council to alter the height of the lights on one of the town courts, and advised they intend…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Court of Quarter Sessions. Tried For Theft
On Tuesday, Frederick James Marshall appeared for trial before His Honor Judge P. V. Storkey, V.C., on charges of breaking and entering the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cases at Moree Police Court. Charge of False Pretence
Police proceeded against Clifford Alfred Giles on Tuesday on a charge of having falsely pretended to Bruce Picone that he was J. Murphy and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Narrabri Quarter Sessions and District Court
The Narrabri sittings of the District Court and Quarter Sessions wi[?] commence at 2 p.m. to-morrow, Tuesday, instead of at 10 a.m. as…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Judge Storkey Deals with Four Remitted Divorce Issues. Moree District Court
The following remitted divorce issues were dealt with at the Moree District Court by His Honor, Judge P. V. Storkey, V.C.:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fifteen Months' Gaol for Stealing Wheat
Four men involved in charges of stealing a number of bags of wheat from a stack at Kiandool, during December, were sentenced…
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Two men received sentences of six months and four months each on two charges of stealing at the Police Court on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Two Months for Stealing
A sentence of two months' hard labour was passed on Cecil Henry Lynch, of Narrabri, on Tuesday, by Mr. V. Johnston, S.M., when…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Medicine Scheme Would Stand Court Test—McKenna SYDNEY
If the B.M.A. decided to contest tthe Free Medicine Scheme in the High Court, he was completely confident the Scheme would stand the test, the Federal Minister for Health, Senator McKenna, said last night. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police to Round Up Stray Dogs
Stray dogs, considered a menace to traffic, are to be rounded up by the police and destroyed. The municipal council's health…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Faces Murder Charge SYDNEY
A woman was charged at the Burwood police station today with having murdered her husband, Frank Herbert Gurney, 43, in his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Search For Missing Fishermen NEWCASTLE
A search began today for bodies of two men, believed to have been drowned when their launch collided with another vessel near Newcastle…
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