Gaol, Fine for Conspiracy
ADELAIDE, Friday.—Two men were sentenced to three months' gaol and fined £50 each in the Criminal Court today, after they…
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Courts & crime, 1950
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Sharkey Appeal Adjourned Court to Consider Jurisdiction
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Street) today adjourned for a week the appeal by Laurence Louis Sharkey, 51, general secretary of the Communis[?] Party, against his conviction and…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Detectives believe that underworld gangsters were responsible for the theft last night of five Austen sub-machine guns,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A Supreme Court jury today dismissed a claim by William John Morrison, bricklayer, of Oyster Bay, for £5000…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A milk bar proprietress at Euroa told police tonight she had recognised a man who walked into her shop tonight…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—A man who had been living with a woman and was accused of having poisoned her with cyanide was…
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Lismore's first permanent police prosecutor is expected to arrive next week-end. He is Acting Sgt. C. P. Condon,…
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Lismore police will take action against people who carelessly light fires, Inspector J. E. Forsyth said…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Judge Berne today described the Criminal Court dock as a "barbaric relic of antiquity, which seems to make a…
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A Lithuanian migrant, who learnt to speak Polish in his home country, interpreted in a case in Lismore Court of Petty Sessions…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Criminal Investigaton Branch has issued strict instructions to the consorting squad and special detectives…
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A Keerrong farmer was refused bail when he was remanded in Lismore Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a charge of…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. E. J. Gibson) today found that 84 years old Mrs. Mary Elizabeth McGuire…
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"SILVER CITY."—Randolph Scott leads the cast in the technicolour western drama, "Silver City", at the Star Court tonight. The story deals…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Judge Berne refused to try a case in the Quarter Sessions today because he thought that the words "wanted on…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Ex-internee, Lars Gustav Brundahl, who is serving a four years' gaol sentence for consorting to assault a returned soldier and his wife, was ordered today by a Supreme Court jury to…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The State Full Court of Criminal Appeal today reserved judgment on the appeal by Laurence Louis Sharkey, general secretary of the Communist Party, against the severity of his sentence…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Harvey, S.M., at Central Court today, sentenced to six months' gaol a man who tried to pick a detective's…
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TOKIO, Friday (AAP-Reuter).— Twenty-six Japanese war criminal suspects, held at Sugamo prison, in Tokio, have been charged with the…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—C.I.B. scientific experts will tomorrow examine human bones found near Young, yesterday, to ascertain if they…
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