Widow For Trial On Blind Baby Murder Charge
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A 27 year old widow was committed-for trial to-day on a charge of having murdered her five months old daughter on June 30…
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Courts & crime, 1951
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Japan's New "Police" Force in Training
NEW YORK, Wednesday (AAP). —Japan's new khaki-clad national police reserve force of 75,000 men and its quasi-military training…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Break Up Aboriginal Strike Marchers
DARWIN, Wednesday.—A mob of 32 aboriginal strikers, armed with sticks, who were marching on Darwin from Berrimah aboriginal…
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At Kyogle Court of Petty Sessions yesterday morning, 21-year-old Robert Smith, of Geneva Street, Kyogle, was charged with offensive behabiour…
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"HOUSE BY THE RIVER."—An ominous, brooding river creates the dramatic background for the tense drama, "House by the River", starring Louis…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two Charged with Theft of Bananas
MULLUMBIMBY, Friday.—Although he found the charge against William Rex Wall proven, Mr. F. C. Tompson, S.M., at…
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ADELAIDE, Friday.âThree Adelaide police officers were burned to death while fighting a fierce bushfire in a gully at Upper Sturt…
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A 43-year-old building contractor was remanded on £500 bail in Lismore Court of Petty, Sessions yesterday on a charge allegedly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Magistrate Hints At Trial In Book Libel Case
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The question of the clarity of a sentence in police evidence given last Friday in the "Power Without Glory"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Seek Lorry Driver
Police wish to interview the driver of a covered lorry who may have seen an accident in Hindmarsh Street, Lismore on Friday night…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—On a charge of murdering his year old daughter, Kevin James Miller, 32, was today committed for trial by the City Coroner, Mr. Burke…
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MELBOURNE, Monday.—Trainer Jim Cummings advised racegoers today not to regard Comic Court as a "certainty" in the William…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday—Reuben Berrie, aged 2, missing since last Friday, was found alive and well today. He was found by the police dog, Vengeance, which was flown from Sydney yesterday…
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"FLAMING FURY."—For tonight only [?]t the Star Court Theatre, the senational drama dealing with the arson [?]acket in New York, "Flaming Fury",…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Raid on Hotel Occupants Escaped
MURWILLUMBAH, Thursday.—"Some men and women escaped to the wide open spaces" when police visited the hotel at Tyalgum, 15…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—A 52 years old man was charged with the murder of his wife, by three Melbourne detectives in Brisbane today…
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DURBAN, Friday (AAP).—John Maxwell Seaforth Gray (40), of Sydney, failed to appear in Durban, Magistrate's Court yesterday…
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LONDON, Monday (AAP).—Scotland Yard foiled a plot by an underworld gang to kidnap John Tilley, 42, English…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Busy Year At Court Most Cases Increase; Juvenile Charges Down
During the past year the volume of work handled by the Kyogle Court of Petty Sessions increased by almost a third, said Clerk of the…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—A detective told the City Court today that Edward Joseph Scully, 52, chef, had admitted…
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