Escape From Bathurst Gaol
SYDNEY, Friday: --Richard Joseph McKenna (28), escaped from Bathurst gaol to-day by climbing over a paling fence…
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Courts & crime, 1941
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Patriotic Effort Police and Citizens Raise £1043
BALLINA, Friday,--At the final meeting of the committee of the Ballina and District Police and Citizens Patriotic Effort, it was announced that…
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BATHURST, Monday:--Robert McKenna (20), who escaped from Bathurst Gaol on Friday morning, was recaptured at gunpoint by Sergeant…
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DALEY, Monday:--Sharp exchanges between counsel for the defence and Detective Quinn look place to-day during evidence in the trial of Robert…
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At the Lismore Small Debts Court yesterday Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., ordered that an amount of £27 16s should be paid to the judgment…
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SYDNEY, Monday: -- Francis, Lindsey, who was one of the crew of the steamer Komata when it was sunk by an enemy raider in…
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A charge arising out of a collision between two motor cars at the intersection of Woodlark and Dawson streets on March 7 was…
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BRISBANE, Monday: -- Two American sailors, Seaman Albert Hudson (18) and Yeoman Joseph Olsen (21), missing from the…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.--Late tonight a man was charged with murder following the discovery of the body of Henry, Henness (62) at a pensioners…
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Horton Hiscocks, a plumber, unsuccessfully sued the Lismore Municipal Council at the Lismore Police Court, yesterday for…
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MULLUMBIMBY, Wednesday.--Joseph Vlismas, banana grower, of Main Arm, and Stewart Watson Reed, labourer, at present residing in…
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A banana grower of Main Arm, Joseph Vlismas, and Stewart Watson Reid, laborer, of Mullumbimby, were the central figures in a cross-action…
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DUBBO, Wednesday.--Harvey Oliver Potts (45) was found not guilty at the Supreme Court today of murdering his wife at Wellington on March 16…
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At Mullumbimby Police Court on Wednesday a welcome was extended to the now Police Magistrate (Mr. A. J. Bryant) by Sgt. S. J. Stewart on…
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Leslie Mason, of Murwillumbah, who appeared on remand in the Tweed Heads Police Court yesterday on a charge of haying assaulted Norman…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.--Following alleged trouble, in inducing, soldiers to leave hotels at the lawful closing time, police from…
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CASINO, Thursday.-- The hearing was concluded in the District Court before his Honor, Judge Storkey, V.C., of actions brought as a sequel to a…
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MELBOURNE, Friday:--A young woman has been arrested concerning the theft of £2700 from George. Hill, a Queensland coal miner. Hill won…
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In stressing the danger of driving motor cars with glaring headlights Const. C. Langham of the Lismore Police Patrol, stated yesterday that…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--"Violet Hudson (27) was charged yesterday with having on April 19 stolen £2700 from George Henry Hill, a Queensland coal…
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