Arrests for Murder of Australians
BATAVIA, Tuesday: It is announced that the Indonesian police arrested two Japanese and three Indonesians, alleged to…
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Obituary Police Inspector Barber
SYDNEY, Tuesday: Inspector Arthur Barber, wellknown police official died suddenly at Grafton to-day. He was for some years in…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Douglas Ronald Morris, aged 26 years, journalist, admitted in the Central Court to-day that he had tried to mislead the police during their investigations into the death of Mrs. Jeanette Wickes, aged 45 years…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Before a court martial at R.A.N. headquarters to-day Richard Ernest Scott, Australian seaman, was charged…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Christopher Ransome, aged 52 years, was charged at the Central Court to-day with having murdered Henry Slater…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Josephine Jennings, aged 19 years, sobbed when she was remanded at the Central Court to-day on five counts of…
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PEARL HARBOR, Wednesday: Five U.S. sailors will be court-martialled for allegedly sabotaging a Japanese cruiser, the Sakawa…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Charges Against Gundagai Agent Adjourned Until June Court
Three charges were preferred against William Mac-Sullivan, stock and station agent, of Gundagai, in the Gundagai Police Court yesterday,…
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Recently a tour of Gundagai's cafes was made by the Health inspector, during the course of which samples of milk were taken from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Leeton Police Court Alleged Assault Causing Bodily Harm
Fred Harold Lamont, aged 24 years, was charged at the Leeton police court with assaulting Alex, James Taylor, occasioning him actual…
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John Kins: (56) was fined 10/. in default 24 hours, on a charge of drunkenness. Constable Timmins stated that defendant was found by Constable…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: In his address to the jury in the closing stages of the kiosk murder trial to-day, Mr. Kinkead (for the defence) said: "Once the police found blood-stained clothing they dropped…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Three men were present in court charged with murder when the inquest opened to-day into the death of former…
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SYDNEY, Thursday: Richard Essex Scott, R.A.N. rating, was sentenced to six months' gaol with hard labor and ordered to be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Items of News Police Transfers
Latest police transfers include those of Constable Hobart, Clarence Street to Leeton, and Constable Clark, Leeton to Murwillumbah…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supreme Court. (Thursday's Evidence)
(Evidence given prior to this appears on page 6 of this issue.) Francis Gogarty, railway engine-driver, of Junee, deposed: I was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kiosk Murder Trial Sit Till Midnight To Conclude Case
SYDNEY, Friday: The Crown Prosecutor, Mr. Kidston, K.C. in his address to the jury today submitted that the obvious explanation for the…
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Before his Honor. Mr. Justice James Herron. Bush Fire Claims The first case was that of Archibald…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision in Russell-street, Tumut Car Driver Faces Court Charge
On Monday evening last at approximately 5.45 p.m. a collision occurred in Russell-St., Tumut, in the centre of the roadway between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Morris Acquitted Applause in Court when Verdict Announced
SYDNEY, Friday: Cheering crowds greeted Douglas Ronald Morris, aged 26 years, when he left the Central Criminal Court this afternoon after the jury had acquitted him on the charge of having murdered Mrs. Jeanette Wickes, aged 45, in her kiosk…
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