Few Blamed for Strike at Gaol
MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — A letter signed "The Majority" and claiming a few malcontents are responsible for the strike of 100…
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Courts & crime, 1947
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Five Years' Gaol: "Model Sunday School Pupils"
GOULBURN, Wednesday.—Described as being formerly "model Sunday School pupils," three youths were each sent to gaol for live years to-day…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The immediate arrest of a former Law clerk, Duncan Cameron, of Billyard Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, was…
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Claiming that the new traffic regulations proposed in a police report for Lismore were harsh and unnecessarily restrictive, a delegation of Lismore public organisations submitted an alternative scheme to a conference…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—A man who was interrogated by the police regarding the murder of a little girl in Camperdown Cemetery last June…
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At Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions yesterday John Cunningham, on reman, pleaded guilty to having stolen a…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: Last night the cells at Pentridge Gaol were quiet, and the dispute there, in which…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A rtir was cawed this afternoon when, following a reference to an alleged agreement made by the Victorian…
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GOULBURN, Thursday. — Indge Berne, in the District Court to-day, described the sending of a document resembling a Court summons in…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Horace Joseph Edwards (45), dealer, was today committed for trial on a charge of having stolen a safe…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Horace Joseph Edwards, 45, dealer, was to-day committed for trial on a charge of having stolen a safe and contents…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—All was quiet in Pentridge Gaol last night, an official said to-day. Further trouble was not expected from the prisoners…
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SYDNEY, Friday.— There was an unusual sight in the Court of Criminal Appeal this morning when a convicted murderer was brought into court handcuffed to appeal against his death sentence…
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MELBOURNE, Friday: A baby was born at a city hospital to a 12-year-old girl and her father has been charged with incest…
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AUCKLAND, Friday: Sentences of life imprisonment were imposed on two boys, James Frederick Dodd, 15, and Cyril James…
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PERTH, Friday: For four hours in the Criminal Court to-day Leonard Charles Jackson (48), addressing Mr Justic…
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LONDON, Friday: A West London Police Magistrate committed Thomas John Ley, 66, for trial at the Old Bailey on a charge of…
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SYDNEY, Friday: There was an unusual sight in the Court of Criminal Appeal this morning when a convicted murderer was brought into the court handcuffed to appeal against his death…
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LONDON, Sunday: Ten boys, aged 16 and under, have been charged with the murder of William…
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TOKIO, Sunday: The Fifth Air Force announced that five Japanese were killed and about 20 others injured when a group…
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