20 Police in Street Fight at Dee Why
SYDNEY, Sunday: A policeman's hand was badly gashed during a brawl between 20 police and a number of men outside a dance at…
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Man Charged with Murder of Jockey
SYDNEY, Monday: As a sequel to the death of Jockey Neil Joseph McKenna, who was found badly battered in a Surry Hills lane on…
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SEVEN young R.A.A.F. trainees appeared before Mr. Finlay, S. M. at the Wagga Court yesterday, charged with offensive behavior…
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James Hardwick, 18, shop assistant of Forsyth Street, Wagga, was fined £10 by Mr. Finlay, S.M., at the Wagga Court yesterday for negligent driving…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court of Petty Sessions Friday, August 29. (Before Mr. E. J. Forrest, J.P.)
Leslie Conway ,(24) was charged with being found drunk at the Narandera railway station. He did not appear and his recognisance was…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Last night Cyril David Tapping, 24, of Hillview, staggered into the signal box at Villawood railway station with…
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ALBURY, Tuesday: The New Zealand Commissioner of Police (Mr. James Cunningham) and his wife, with three other members of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grim Exhibits Seen in N.s.w. Police Museum
One of the most interesting tents at the Show is that which houses the New South Wales Police Museum, displaying hundred of…
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ALBURY, Wednesday: The new Zealand Commissioner of Police (Mr. James Cunningham) and his wife, with three other members of his party,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sought by Police for Questioning Youth Presents Himself to Detectives Charged With Murder
SYDNEY, Thursday: Accompanied by his solicitor, Mr. Harold Munro, and two women—one his sister—a young man for whom the police have been…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: The City Coroner today heard evidence at the inquest into the death of Robert Athol Hall, who was shot dead…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Mrs. Constance Walker, of Beecroft, was acquitted at the Central Criminal Court today on a charge of having…
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When the names of two well known South Gundagai men were called at the Gundagai Court yesterday, a stoney silence greeted the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A Central Criminal Court jury to-day failed to agree on a verdict in a case in which Frederick William John…
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Before Mr. W. Finay, S.M. Driving Under the Influence Leslie Norman Malkin (25) pleaded guilty to driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Russia Makes Proposal on World Police Force
LAKE SUCCESS (N.Y.) Wednesday: The Soviet, which refused in June to join the four other Great Powers in making any…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sentence of Six Months Hard Labour Strange Pleads Guilty To Stealing Charge Over One Hundred Previous Convictions
With one hundred and thirty-nine previous convictions recorded against him, John Brown, a stranger to these parts, stood -in the dock at…
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Constable J. R. Gray, who has been stationed at Tumbarumba for the past . 21 months, has received…
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Very few Gundagai people celebrated the second anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in World War II, on August 15th last, and whether this joyous occasion was the reason for a Gundagai man taking one or perhaps two Over the eight, is not known; but the celebration…
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SYDNEY, Friday. Vernie Francis Smith, 23, laborer, was remanded in the Central Police Court today without bail on a charge of having…
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