Woman Acquitted of Murder
BRISBANE, Friday: After a five-hour retirement the Criminal Court jury tonight found Alma Muriel Morgan, 24, a domestic,…
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"Pyjama Girl" Inquiry Continues Counsel Attacks Police Work
MELBOURNE, Friday: A strong attack on the work of the police was made to-day at the "Pyjama Girl" inquest by Mr. Barry, K.C…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Press Privilege in Court Reporting
“Court Reporters are not expected to employ lawyers as reporters nor to present Court news as a lawyer could write it” said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Police Court Monday, May 1, 1944 (Before Mr. H. L Sargeson, P.m.) Stealing Charge Dismissed
At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.M., William Caryle Keritz, aged 21 years, airman, was charted with stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court (Today) Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.M. Indecent Language
Leslie William Metcalfe and Agnes Anne Hardy pleaded guilty to using indecent language. Constable Fraser: At 8 p.m. on…
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The Wagga police issue a warning to the public to exercise extreme care during Cup week to prevent losses through robbery. They ask…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man on Murder Charge Asks Permission to Attend Funeral
SYDNEY, Mon.: Roy Kable, 32, laborer, who is charged with the murder of his wife. Irene Margaret May Kable, at Newtown, on Saturday, asked…
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MELBOURNE, Mon.: The Union Bank of Australia Ltd.. Collins street, Melbourne, and its general manager (Mr. Alfred Goode) figured in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Capital Charges Police Deny Violence to Obtain Confession
MELBOURNE, Tues.: An allegation that violence had been used to obtain a confession from John Francis Downle, aged 23, of South Melbourne,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Assault Case Collapses Magistrates Rules Woman Was A Consenting Party Happenings at South Gundagai Attract a Crowd to the Court
SEATING ACCOMMODATION at the Gundagai Court House was insufficient to hold the large numbers of people who attempted to listen to an unsavory case on Wednesday last. The presiding Magistrate, Mr Sargeson, PM, ordered onlookers who could not find…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opal Field Tragedy Murder and Suicide Indicated
SYDNEY, Wed.: Notes left by one of two men found dead in adjoining huts at the Lightning Ridge opal field, near Walgett, yesterday indicate that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charges Against Local Agent Dismissed Trucking and Conveyance of Cattle By Rail Allegations That the Police Did Not Make Proper Inquiries
THE allegation was made in the Gundagai Police Court yesterday, by Mr W. F. Sheahan, that if the proper police inquiries had been made, then two charges, brought against Charles A. Gardiner, a well known Gundagai stock agent, in relation to offences…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Alleged Assault Occasioning Bodily Harm
At the Leeton police court before Mr. A. S. Kendall, Harry Lawrence Murphy (29) was charged that on April 26th, on the Uroly Bridge Road…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Four men who were convicted at the Balmain court to-day of having stolen 880 gallons of petrol, the…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday: The death occurred in hospital yesterday of John White, a member of the police force for 37 years, and who, at the time of…
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His Honour Judge Lamond will preside at a sitting of the Workers Compensation Court at Leeton at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 10th. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Colored Man for Trial Murder Charge at Lismore
LISMORE, Thursday: Following the inquest into the death of Richard Gwynne, whose body was found under a bridge at South Lismore on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Young Criminal Statewide Search by Police
ADELAIDE, Thurs.: A Statewide search is being made by the police for a 17-year-old youth who escaped from a reformatory near Adelaide on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American Goes to Fair Rents Court
SYDNEY, Thursday: An American serviceman who was paying £6/16/ a week for a flat while seven other fiats in the same building at Bondi…
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