Police His Best Audience
LONDON: "Lend Me Your Ears," shouted this man from the top of the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus, London…
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Courts & crime, 1949
952 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 5 of 48
Baby Boy Murder Charge
WELLINGTON, A 32-year-oId domestic, Peggy Maaka, pleaded, not guilty in the Police Court to charge of having murdered an 18-month-old…
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Driving under the influence and in a dangerous manner was becoming prevalent in Lismore, the Prosecutor in…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Declaring that there was needless sacrifice of lives through road accidents, the General Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lismore Theatres Star Court
"SORRY, WRONG NUMBER."— The dynamic drama "Sorry, Wrong Number" opens tonight at the Star Court Theatre. Two outstanding artists in…
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Norman Arthur Brown, 33, labourer, according to police evidence in Lismore Petty Sessions Court yesterday, was found on Saturday…
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When he failed to appear on a drunkenness charge at Kyogle Court yesterday, Laurence James, 58, labourer, forfeited bail of 10-…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →132 Court Cases At Ballina
BALLINA, Monday. — Vital statistics, as recorded at Ballina C.P.S. Office by Mr. G. Dench for 1948 revealed that there were 132 court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cheers, Boos, Flash-Bulbs in French Court
PARIS, Monday: Victor Kravchenko, Russian author of "I Chose Freedom," was greeted with cheers and boos, when he…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday: Described as a partner with his father and other brothers in a fish tackle manufacturing business…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Doctors at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, today told C.I.B. officers that young railway ganger whom police have been guarding at the hospital since November…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →French Libel Claim: Kremlin Hand Seen in Court Attack
PARIS, Tuesday (AAP).—The Kremlin rulers had ordered an all-out attack against his suit, Victor Kravchenko, Russian author of "I Chose Freedom," told the Court at the opening of his £7000 libel case…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP).— The three Western Powers have ordered a purge of political elements from the police force of the western…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coat Mystery On Hands of Lismore Police
There is a coat at Lismore Police Station which no one seems to want, including the police…
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A colored man, William Bekue, pleaded guilty at Tweed Heads Court yesterday before Mr C. H. Blackmore, SM, to a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Solveig's Owner May Appeal To Supreme Court
BRISBANE, Wednesday. — Mr. M. Reid, owner of Solveig, who was recently disqualified for life by the N.J.C. Stewards, may appeal to the…
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NEWARK, New Jersey (AAP).— The 38-years-old former police judge Felligrino James Pellecchia yesterday was given a sentence of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gaol Rather Than Lose Children
LOS ANGELES, Thursday (AAP).—Mrs. Georgette Bracks, 21-year-old expectant mother, who agreed to a sterilisation…
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In Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, Frederick Ernest Wilson, of Hurstville, Sydney, appeared on four…
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SYDNEY Thursday.—In a bedside court in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital late this afternoon a man whom doctors say "will…
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