R.a.a.f. Vacating Court House
After occupying the Wagga Court House for the war years, the R.A.A.F. is now vacating those premises, and the buildings will…
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"Fire Bug" Caught at Coolac Started Three Bush Fires In Two Hours Magistrate Imposes Heavy Fine
Landholders at Coolac were more than alarmed on Tuesday afternoon last when three bush fires broke out within two hours. Only for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wagga Traveller Sent to Gaol Attempt to Impose on Court
GEELONG, Tuesday; David Raymond M'Clure, commercial traveller, aged 46, of Peter-street Wagga, pleaded guilty in the…
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HOBART, Tuesday: When Frederick Henry Thompson, aged 32 years, waterside worker. was charged with the murder of Evelyn Mary Maughan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Slayer's Appeal to Police
CHICAGO, Tuesday: "For heaven's sake catch me before I kill more. I cannot control myself," was written with lipstick on an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crime Wave in Britain Police Motorists In Sensational Chase
LONDON, Tuesday: "The crime wave in Britain has risen to such proportions that the Home Secretary (Mr. Ede) has ordered a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →12 Years' Gaol for Wounding Near Leeton
SYDNEY, Wed.: Mr. Justice Owen in the Central Criminal Court to-day sentenced James Frederick Carter, aged 56 years,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Japanese Convicted Murder of Airman
MELBOURNE, Wed.: Three more Japanese—Lieuts. Yabe and Nomura and Sgt. Uchino— have been found guilty of the murder…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Matron Sentenced For Neglecting Child
KATOOMBA, Thursday: The matron of a children's home who earlier this month was acquitted at Parramatta Quarter Sessions on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Forty-four Germans Sentenced to Death Dutch Traitor to Die
LONDON, Thursday: Forty-four Nazis who faced charges of the torturing of persons in Dachau concentration camp, with "violation of the laws and usages of war," and on charges elating to the deaths…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tumut Girl and French Polisher Alleged Theft of £700 Trousseau
SYDNEY, Thursday: Tricked into a marriage engagement by a man who nosed as a bachelor, a Tumut girl was robbed of her £700…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Theft of Tumut Girl's Trousseau Accused's Story of Horse That Lost
SYDNEY, Friday: "It was never my intention to rob her," declared Oscar Joseph Lennox, aged 39 years, to-day defending…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thieves Drive off with Safe while Police Comb London
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).— While 2000 metropolitan police, aided by squads of military police, combed large areas on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yamashita Sentenced to Death
General Yamashita, former Japanese Commander in the Philippines, has been found guilty of complicity in atrocities and has been sentenced to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Twelve Years Gaol Uroly Bridge Shooting
James Frederick Carter, aged 56, appeared at the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday, December 11, before Mr. Justice Owen, and pleaded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Police Court Wednesday, December 12 (Before Mr. M. S. Me[?], P.M.)
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wounding at Euroley Carter Sentenced to 12 Years
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Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Arrests for Camp Atrocities 69 Japanese Charged
TOKYO, Monday: General MacArthur has ordered the arrest of 69 additional officials, guards and civilian employees of prisoner of war camps for atrocities against Allied prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court (Tuesday Last) Before. Mr M. S. Meagher, P.M. Alleged Driving Under the Influence
George Henry Gandy was charged with driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor. Mr. H. L. Kinsey (of Kinsey and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Alleged Threat to Murder Man Absconds From Bail
George Renouf who was charged that on October 16, he unlawfully assaulted Iris Bye, used threatening words to the same person, namely,…
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