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Courts & crime, 1946

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Forty-hour Case Arbitration Court Crowded

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: The most important issue to come before the Arbitration Court for many years— the 40-hour week case—was…

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Police Raid Abattoirs Move in Alleged Meat Racket

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: A number of carcase butchers had their books seized in a dawn raid on the State Abattoirs at Homebush to-day…

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Indian judge Charged With Killing Boy

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 1

MADRAS, Tuesday (A.A.P.): The Government has sanctioned the prosecution of the High Court judge, Mr. Justice Byers, for…

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Japs Charged with Murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 3

SINGAPORE, Wednesday: The trial opened to-day of Major-General Sato Tamanori, Col. Kaiyonoto Takauchi, Lieut.-Colonel…

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Escapees From Tram Charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Henry James Mitchell, aged 31 yean, laborer, claimed in Central Police Court this morning that he could…

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Police Court (Tuesday)

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 7

Before Mr. R. Hardwicke. P.M. Car Case Thomas Homeray (30) was charged that he did break and enter the…

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Army Gaol Break Foiled

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday: Complete preparations for an escape from the Geelong Army detention barracks were frustrated by the…

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Life Sentence For Wife Murder

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 2

BRISBANE, Thursday: After two hours' retirement to-night the jury found Thomas Guy Ermer, aged 55, of Tingalpa, guilty of murderinges and a charred heart were reoovered front the ashes. •…

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Police and Workless Clash in Italy

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 2

ROME Thursday: Two policemen were killed and several injured in clashes with unemployed at Bart. The unemployed seized an armored…

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Death Sentences By Court at Singapore

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Friday: The War Crimes Court sentenced to death. by hanging, Major-General Sato Tamanori and Lieut.-Col. Tozawa Keizo, who…

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Police-citizens' Boys' Club Move in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1946 · page 2

For some time past there has been a movement in Wagga to form a police-Citizens' Boys' Club, and a definite step towards…

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Court-Martail of Major Cousens

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: No date has, yet been fixed for the court-martial of Major Charles Cousens, who allgedly broadcast on the Tokyo…

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ACQUITTED At Gundagai on Manslaughter Charge Man Fined £10 at Tumut Court

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 1

At the Tumut Police Court on Thursday before Mr R. A. Hardwicke PM, Robert William Brown was charged with driving in a manner…

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Double Murder at Forbes Man Charged With Ten-Year-Old Crime

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: The shooting of a man and woman at Forbes nearly 10 years ago was described to the Central Criminal Court…

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Deaf and Dumb Man Charged with Stabbing

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 12 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: Michael Courtney Bertyne Allen, aged 23 years, a deaf and dumb waiter, was charged at North Sydney to-day…

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Adelong Hotel Licence Transferred Police Objection Overruled

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 12 March 1946 · page 2

At the Tumut Police Court last Thursday Mr. K. H. Hardwicke, P.M., granted the transfer of the licence of the Hotel Adelong…

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Four Charged with Espionage in Canada

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 March 1946 · page 1

OTTAWA, Tuesday (A.A.P.): Four persons who are accused of disclosing State secrets to the Soviet appeared before the…

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Appeal Against 1936 Murder Sentence

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 March 1946 · page 2

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Tuesday: Eric Mareo, a musician, after 10 years, has obtained leave to appeal against his sentence for the…

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Wagga Court House

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 March 1946 · page 2

Although the Wagga Court House was vacated by the R.A.A.F. several weeks ago and officially handed back to the Justice Department on…

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British Court Sentences Woman to Death

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 13 March 1946 · page 2

SINGAPORE, Tuesday (A.A.P.): The British military court imposed the death sentence on Clover Osborne Woodford, aged 51 years, a…

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