Former U.s. Air Officer Charged with Treason
NEW YORK, Tuesday: The F.B.I. today arrested a 27-year-old former Air Force lieutenant on charges…
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Courts & crime, 1948
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Confidence Man Gets Six Months' Gaol For Cheque Fraud
A young confidence man who elected to be dealt with by the Stipendiary Magistrate Mr. F. C. H. Tompson in the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday in preference to facing a judge and jury on a charge of false pretences…
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"LIFE BEGINS AT EIGHT-THIRTY." -- Cornel Wilde, Ida Lupino, Monty Woolley and William Demarest are the principal artists in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Bushfires Police Seek " Galloping Incendiarist "
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- The police and officers of the Forestry Department have been ordered to track down the "galloping incendiarist" who is held responsible for serious bushfires raging in the Otway Range…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Ward's Safe Deposit Box Will Be Inspected in Court "Jock" Garden Case
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Mr Ward, accompanied by a police officer will visit the Bank of New South Wales to morrow to obtain his private safe deposit box for inspection in the Special Federal Court by the Magistrate hearing the "Jock" Garden New Guinea timber lease case…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.-- Evidence the safety deposit box held by the Minister for External Territories (Mr. E. J. Ward) at the Bank of New South Wales contained only private documents was given by the Commonwealth Investigation Officer in the Special Federal Court…
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ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The police fired eight shots at a stolen car drive by an asylum escapee in a thrilling 59 m.p.h. chase along a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →[?]'Matter of Principle' 16 Issue in Court Dispute
What promises to be a stubbornly contested case in the Small Debts Court had a preliminary airing when the parties faced Mr. F. C. H…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Four young men were arrested in Broken Hill today and charged with the £380 bag-snatching robbery of a Sydney hotel…
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Police visited Lismore saleyards yesterday as part of the campaign which has been instituted to tighten up the check on cattle…
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"THE CHASE."--Tonight at the Star Court Theatre the exciting detective drama "The Chase" will head the entertaining, programme. Robert…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Congestion in Divorce Court
SYDNEY, Friday. -- Mr. Acting Justice Rainbow declared to-day that the Divorce Court work is not being done effectively because there…
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Four defendants, Edward George Philp, Matthew James Philp, Colin Charles Appo and Charles Yettica, pleaded guilty at Tweed Heads Court…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Disturbance in Auckland Gaol
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Sunday (AAP-Reuter).--All available police were rushed to the Auckland prison today to assist quell a serious…
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Thomas William Clark, 29, labourer, of no fixed abode, was sentenced by Mr. F. C. H. Tompson, S.M., at Byron Bay Court of Petty…
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DUBBO, Sunday.--The police have arrested a man in Dubbo on a charge of having stolen £800 from an Hungarian, Andre Balouch, in…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--The police this morning recovered the body of the man who fell from a lighter at the Balmain waterfront on Friday…
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At Tweed Heads Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr F. C. H. Tompson, S.M., the hearing was commenced of charges against Edward George Philp and Matthew James Philp, of Tweed Heads, of having stolen…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.--The police, in topper and tails, were at the Tivoli Theatre last night. They were there on duty looking for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Traffic Cases at Tweed Heads Court
At Tweed Heads Court of Petty Sessions on Friday Mr F. C. H. Tompson, S.M., extended the provisions of section 556A to Tom Wulff, an elderly resident of Kingscliff, after he had pleaded guilty to a charge of having…
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