Lewis Charged With Contempt of Court
WASHINGTON, Friday: The Justice Department announced that a Federal judge had ordered John L. Lewis and the United Minemrokers of…
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Alleged Indecent Assault
Harold Stanley Potter (32) was charged with assaulting Alma Jessie Keller, and committing an act of indecency upon her at Tharbogang on…
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Horace Elwin Bassett, 44, collector, was charged at the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday with assaulting Robert Douglas Peare…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday: In the Criminal Court to-day John William Yuille, 18, a waiter, was found guilty of the murder of Duncan…
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ADELAIDE, Thursday: For having set fire to the house of the Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. W. F. J. McCann). Maurice Wilbur Albert…
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SYDNEY, Friday: Detectives this afternoon arrested a man aged 21 and charged him with setting fire to the liner Asturias…
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SYDNEY, To-day: A man aged 22 years was detained at Bondi Junction last night for questioning in connection with the murder of…
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MELBOURNE, Friday: A move which may prevent the disastrous shortage of harvesting and other agricultural machinery was taken…
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Albert Lawler (43) was charged with stealing three boys' shirts of the value of £1/4/10, the property of Herbert Bailey…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Alexander Campbell Tipping, 18, has been charged with having murdered Alan Cooper 5 at Crows Nest on August…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court (Today). Before Mr. Blackmore. P.M. Tobacco!
John Henry Joseph Mackay (27) was charged with that on or about October 22, 1946, at Cootamundra, he did steal 47½ lbs, of tobacco, 6 plugs of tobacco…
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At the Wagga Police Court on Monday, W. J. Aldrich, R. E. Barber and R. P. Martin, of Victoria, were each fined £5 or 10 days hard labour…
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SYDNEY, Monday: A prisoner, John Lawn, was to-day found hanging in his cell in Parramatta gaol. He was sentenced last week to 12…
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Three men were committed for trial from the Wagga Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on charges of having had a car in their possession and of attempting to steal two cars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Thursday. 21st NOVEMBER (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley, J.P.) Begging Alms
Cecil Webb (42) was charged with wandering in a public place East street) to beg elms. Plea guilty…
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For selling a motor vehicle at a price exceeding the maximum under the regulations, David Lancelot Olsen, garage man, of Wagga, was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Pleading self-defence. Mervyn Garvie (39), laborer, in a statement from the dock, said at the Central criminal Court…
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Parties appearing in court cases at Wagga have often to attend the court three times before the police magistrate can handle their cases…
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Parties appearing in court cases at Wagga have often to attend the court three times before the police…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court (Yesterday.) Before Mr. Blackmore. P.M. Betting
Dallas Napoleon Alchin (35) pleaded guilty that he was, on November 16, in a street, to wit the bar of the Family Hotel, for the purpose of…
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