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Courts & crime, 1946

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Arbitration Court "Not for Social Reform"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 December 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The primary function of the Arbitration Court was the prevention and settlement of disputes, said…

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Gaoling of Butcher Upheld by High Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 December 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The High Court to-day upheld the validity of a price-fixing order, violation of which resulted in a city butcher…

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Police Court

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 2

W[?] Parzer preceeded [?] Stan Hazzard for [?] cutting fence at Brookiyn Hillston doing damage to the…

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Grant Sentenced to Death for Murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The jury in the Central Criminal Court to-day found Sydney Grant, 28, guilty of the murder of…

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GRANT Sentenced to Death

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Jury in the Central Criminal Court today found Sydney Grant. 28, guilty of the murder of Det.-Constable Victor Donald…

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Remand on Theft Charge

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 2

John Christopher Flynn (20), student, was charged at the Wagga Court of Petty sessions yesterday with having stolen a camera, valued…

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Dangerous Criminals in Gaol-break

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday: Three dangerous criminals scaled the wall at the Brisbane gaol this afternoon walked out of the grounds and…

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Charge of Assault Not Guilty Verdict for Tintaldra Case

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 1

At the recent sitting of the Wangaratta General Sessions, before Judge Book, Samuel Melville Doughty committed from…

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Youth Ordered to Penitentiary; Not Guilty of Murder

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A jury at the Central Criminal Court to-day, found Alexander Campbell Tipping, 18, not guilty of the murder of…

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Police Worried Over Escapes from Homes

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Police are concerned over the many escapes from industrial homes for boys and girls…

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Police Warn of Thieves Operating In Motor Vehicles

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 2

Gangs of theives are operating in country districts in motor vehicles. Wagga Police have warned…

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Meat Price Orders Challenged In High Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 December 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Orders fixing the prices of mutton, beef and lamb, as well as butter, under the National Security Act…

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Collision Near Yanco Has Court Sequel Both Drivers Charged

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 6

A PARTIAL head-on collision between two motor vehicles on a wide straight stretch of road between Yanco and Narandera on the night of August 31st, as the result of which a car containing a party of Wagga residents overturned and came to rest with its wheels in the…

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Border Watch for Brisbane Gaol Escapees

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Detectives have been posted at strategic points between the New South Wales and…

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Not Guilty of Murder

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: The jury at the Central Criminal Court today? returned a verdict of not guilty in the ase in which William Hollebone was…

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Commons Allegation B.b.c. Charged; Silk Stocking Gifts Alleged

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday: Sir Valentine Holmes, K.C., will hold an immediate inquiry into allegations by a Labor member, Wing Commander…

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Woman's Outburst at Trial of Man On Murder Charge

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: When William Hollebone was being taken from dock at Central Criminal Court to-day, where he was charged…

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Officers to Be Court Martialled

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 1

CANBERRA Thursday: Two officers have been ordered to stand trial by court martials as the result of the shooting of an Italian…

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Police Warn Of Thieves Operating In Motor Vehicles

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 13 December 1946 · page 4

Gangs of thieves are operating in country districts in motor vehicles. The police have warned business men and ho[?]keepers to…

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Man Charged With Melbourne Murder

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 December 1946 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: Detectives in the Homicide Squad to-day arrested a 45-year-old pensioner and charged him at the City…

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