30,000 In Court in Q. Last Year
BRISBANE, Wednesday: Five thousand persons were charged with traffic and State transport, breaches in Brisbane last year…
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Courts & crime, 1948
1,233 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 62
Charged with Stealing Wedding Gifts
SYDNEY, Thursday: One of two men charged with theft at Burwood Court was alleged to have stolen his niece's wedding…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.-- A young criminal escaped from Long Bay Gaol while pictures were being shown, in the recreation hall this afternoon. He is believed to have forced a door from one section of the gaol to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Double Shooting Young Woman Charged SYDNEY, Thursday
Police tonight arrested and charged a 28-years-old man with attempted murder, following a double…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lismore Theatres Star Court
"WANTED FOR MURDER": The sensational crime drama, "Wanted For Murder" opens tonight at the Star Court Theatre. Eric Portman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Night Firing From House; Police Raid
SYDNEY, Thursday: Police at Lithgow charged a house from which a man allegedly had been firing a pea-rifle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tomewin Man Charged with Stealing
Charles Gordon Pierce (62), of Tomewin, was charged in Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with having stolen…
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CASINO, Friday.-- On a charge of stealing 12s 2d, the property of L. Jabour, Keith John Mock was remanded on £20 bail to appear at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder at Asylum
GOSFORD, Friday.--The District Coroner today found that Esther Young, 64, an inmate at Morrisset Mental Hospital died last night as…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Jock Garden Charged With Forgery
SYDNEY, Friday.--Three summonses involving two charges of forgery and one of falsification of a document were issued this afternoon against John Smith (Jock) Garden…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Claim Man Under Girl's Bed
BRISBANE, Friday: While a girl of 22 admired herself in the mirror of her South Brisbane room there was a man,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Attempted Gaol Break Thwarted
BRISBANE, Sunday.--Two long sentence Southern criminals K. N. Davis and E. E. Bridgford recently attempted to make a bid for freedom…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Youth Charged With Shooting Father On Farm
BRISBANE, Sunday.--A 15-years-old youth was charged at Landsborough Court to-night with having attempted to kill his father at Conondale yesterday. The father, Ernest Edward Portch…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stolen Jewellery Recovered by Police
BRISBANE, Sunday.--A cache of jewellery worth £2443 which was stolen from a Brisbane residential last night was later recovered…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Youths Tried to Break Police Patrol Cordon
SYDNEY, Sunday.--Trapped in a mobile cordon of police patrol cars two youths in a stolen butcher's lorry tried vainly to ram their way out at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Royal Court For Armidale Cup After Moorefield Success
SYDNEY, Sunday.--Royal Court, 25 to 1 winner of the Peter Moore Handicap at Moorefield yesterday, will run in the Armidale Cup early in February. The run will be part of a family holiday planned by her…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →£5000 Theft From Bookmaker
PERTH, Monday: The theft of £5000 in notes from his home at Mt. Lawley on Saturday night has been reported to the CIB by Perth…
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BRISBANE, Monday: Stating that as the whole of the property had been recovered, and that defendant was well-known and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victim of Alleged Assault in Hospital
BALLINA, Monday.--Because the victim of an alleged assault was still ill and unable to attend court. Albert Norman Larkin, 29, labourer, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy on Murder Charge
BRISBANE, Monday: A 15-years-old boy was charged in the Children's Court at Landsborough this morning with have…
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