Police Story "Unreal," Says Judge
SYDNEY, Monday: Police had given "absolutely capricious and unreal" evidence at a Quarter Sessions appeal, Judge Nield said today. The Judge upheld an appeal…
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C.P. Bill in Court Protest on new seats Bill
MELBOURNE, Mon.: The Victorian Government could not answer the challenge to the…
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ALICE SPRINGS, Tuesday: Four prisoners who attempted to escape from Alice Springs Gaol were stopped when one…
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Charged on four counts of stealing property valued at £15/6/8, 21-ycar-old laborer. Norman Bruce Murrell of…
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DARWIN, Tuesday: Police action in Arresting 22 aborigines who were found on a former hunting ground on Sunday was a violation of the principle of human rights, Native Affairs…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The Chief Secretary (Mr. Kelly) said today he would ask police to report on a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday — The dispute between the N.S.W. Government and the Sydney Country council over increased…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: A special police squad will control the large crowd expected to wel-come Australia's Governor-General designate (Sir William Slim) when he arrives in Sydney…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: The dispute between the N.S.W. Government and the Sydney County…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday: Mrs. Jill Mary Hackney in the Equity Court today admitted that she had asked her doctor to tell her parents that her baby daughter had died…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The State Full Court would commit contempt of Parliament if it upheld the Country Party's…
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LONDON. Wednesday (A.A.P.): Passers-by yesterday saw a man emerge from a saloon car in Kensington,…
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SYDNEY, Wed.: Maurice Joseph Napier was committed for trial in Central Court to-day on a charge of having…
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At yesterday's Wagga Court of Petty Session, Leonard Edward Bank, Short street, Ganmain, pleaded not guilty…
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The Chief Secretary (Mr. Kelly) said he would ask police to report on a proposed new racing venture providing for sale of weekly…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A doctor had either deceived a mother about the adoption of her child or he had deceived the Court, Mr. Acting Justice Myers said in the Equity Court today…
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LONDON, Wednesday (AAP): John Reginald Christie, 55-year-old clerk accused of the murder of his wife and three other women, was a…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: A police report on recent racehorse doping in Sydney will be sent to the Commissioner (Mr. C. Delaney) tomorrow morning, it was stated tonight by the Superintendent of the C.I.B. (Mr. Ramus)…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday: Reginald Aubrey Doyle, 41, bankrupt investor, told the Bankruptcy Court be lost £140,000 betting since 1951, and in one month lost £30,000. Doyle, who appeared in custody, was sentenced on April 14 to 10 years' gaol for forgery, false pretences and theft…
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Michael James Stores was charged with having in his possession three pillow eases suspected of having been stolen…
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