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Courts & crime, 1946

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British Soldier Charged with Aiding Enemy Alleged Pupil of "Haw Haw's" Wife

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday: A British soldier who was captured in Crete in June, 1941, is alleged to have aided the…

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Items of News Wagga Court House Repairs

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 2

The member for Wagga (Hon. E. H. Graham) recently requested the Minister of Justice (Mr. Downing) to arrange for the court room at…

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Girl Found Bound and Gagged Afterwards Charged With Stealing

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The housemaid at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. Herman, in March-street, Bellevue Hill, was found…

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Unusual Scene in Wyalong Court Hairdresser Gives Demonstration

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 1

A magistrate, doctor, solicitors police, and court official crowded about the Bench at the West Wyalong court house, keenly interested…

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Gundagai District Hotels Up to Standard Licensing Court Report

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 4

The quarterly Licensing Court was held in Gundagai yesterday, when the report of the licensing inspector (Sgt Brindle) was presented to the…

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Court Martial on Lost R.N. SUBMARINE Reported to Have Become U-boat

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P): "A court martial on the loss of the British submarine, H.M.S. Seal, which disappeared early in 1940 and…

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Assault on Provost

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 2

Leslie Alexander Wood was convicted and fined £10 in the Albury Court yesterday on a charge of assaulting a military police warrant…

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"BLUEBEARD" Sentenced to Death

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 1

PARIS, Friday: Dr. Marcel Petiot, "Modern Bluebeard." who is charged with 27 murders, was found guilty, and sentenced to death…

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Gold Hoard in Gaol Wartime Expedient

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday: A secret hiding-place for millions of pounds' worth of gold in Australia during the war was the…

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Capture of the Seal Commander to be Charged

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Thursday: "Lieut.-Commander R. P. Lonsdale, commander of H.M. submarine Seal, which was captured with all its…

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That Bellevue Hill Robbery! Housemaid and Man Charged

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 1

Mavis Dorothy Burton, 18, housemaid at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J. Herman, in March street, Bellevue Hill, who told the police on…

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Fireman Charged First Case in N.S.W.

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: John Edward Cook, driver of a fire brigade engine, was to-day found guilty of negligent…

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Clash Between Jews and Police

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Thursday: It is officially announced that 29 armed Jews were captured during a clash with the police. They were…

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Better Conditions for Police C.P. Favors Independent Tribunal

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 1

When the bill to give the police force access to the Arbitration Court was before the Assembly the lender of the Country Party said he would not…

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Charged with THEfT of Safe

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday. Crarged with having assaulted the night porter and stolen a safe and valuables worth £263 from the Mansion…

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700 Deaths Caused by Doctor Sentenced to Be Executed

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Friday: The Austrian, court has sentenced to death Dr. Franz Fiedermoser, bead doctor of, the Plagenfurt Isolation Hospital…

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Police Search for Guitar

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 2

Wagga and Junee police are making inquiries in connection with a Rickenbaker electric steel-guitar, which has been reported missing…

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Divorce Court Judge Puzzled

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: "But this is 1940," protested Mr. Justice Maxwell in the Divorce Court to-day when told that a husband has…

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Sensation at Sydney Wharf Armed Men Evade Police

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 April 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday: After the Canberra berthed at No. 11 wharf. Woolloomooloo this afternoon police officers became suspicious of the…

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Man Found Hanged at Goulburn Gaol

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 6

A Chinaman who was serving a six month's sentence at the Goulburn Reformatory was found hanged in his cell, at 6.35 on Friday…

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