Riot Quelled In Auckland Gaol
AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Monday (AAP-Reuter).--Escape attempts by male prisoners known to have improvised weapons were feared by…
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Courts & crime, 1948
1,233 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 62
To Investigate Double Murder
DARWIN, Monday: When police and Native Affairs officers were setting off today in a patrol launch to investigate a double…
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A woman who claimed that she feared physical violence from her husband and said she would not live with him unless he was bound…
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An elderly bootmaker who claimed in the Small Debts Court in Lismore yesterday that he was entitled to 1s 6d above the fixed legal price for repairing a pair of shoes was given, a judgment only for the legal price by Mr. F. C. H. Tompson,…
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CASINO, Tuesday. -- Francis Kirkup, 23, of no fixed abode, was remanded until Thursday on a charge of stealing when he appeared before…
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"I know this is a common practice but it is still breaking the law and is apt to be dangerous from the point of view of fire -- particularly as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Magistrate "Takes Risk" With Self-Confessed Thief
"I am inclined to take a bit of a risk on you," said Mr. F. C. H. Tompson, S.M., at Lismore Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, when he acceded to the plea of a 23-year-old self-confessed motor cycle thief who asked that…
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"MY GAL SAL." -- The well produced technicolour attraction "My Gal Sal" opens tonight at the Star Court Theatre, starring Rita…
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Inspector H. W. Taylor said in Lismore yesterday that police officers were instituting a campaign throughout the district…
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CASINO, Wednesday.-- Robert George Johnson, 33, was sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour…
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"MY GAL SAL."--The well produced technicolour attraction "My Gal Sal" is the principal attraction at the Star Court Theatre, starring…
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CASINO, Thursday. -- Members of the Casino legal fraternity and the police farewelled Mr. N. L. M. Hammond, Chamber Magistrate…
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CASINO, Thursday. -- Pleading guilty to a charge of having insufficient means of support, Henry Hills, 63, pensioner, of Quirindi, was…
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CASINO, Thursday. -- "Apparently short term sentences are lost on you, and, in view of your past record, I have no alternative but to send you…
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"BRUTE FORCE." -- The dynamic star Burt Lancaster, who will be remembered for his performances in "Desert Fury" and "The Killers," is…
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BRISBANE, Thursday: Over £700 worth of jewellery, the major portion Of thefts from two jewellery shops in Mackay…
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William Alfred Cooper, of Kyogle, failed to appear at the Kyogle Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday afternoon before Mr. M. J. D. Austin,…
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A representative of the police and a Justice of the Peace, who spoke on behalf of his fellow Justices and citizens, welcomed Mr. F. C. H…
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ADELAIDE, Friday: A 10-year-old girl who, in company with another girl of 11½ and the latter's brother (14), arrived in…
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NEW YORK, Friday (AAP).--Since 1946 Chinese Communists have executed, murdered or tortured to death 49 Catholic priests…
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