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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 30, 1968
Page
18
Crown says Lorraine Kieehammer 21 from Bairnsdale disguised as a man with spare clothes mask and shoes to rob two banks. She and accomplice Geoffrey Gar coerced managers at gunpoint, took about 12 947 dollars, and fled to Stratford. Court trial details ongoing.
Melbourne reports ongoing firefighter strike with maintenance crews kept in order by chief officer J Paterson. The dispute centers on higher pay, while operations remain largely stable as crews stay out.
Ronald James Rushton, 33, pleaded guilty to six bad cheques drawn between May 14 and July 21, 1963, totaling 9850 dollars, falsely claiming payment orders were genuine. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment to run concurrently with existing sentences. Other cases heard included Webb traffic penalties and Kwiatkowski work injury compensation, with various fines, bonds, and orders issued.
A Supreme Court session detailed a burglary by a man who attempted to break into a Canberra house using a ladder, drawing on prior sentences and warnings. The defendant faced multiple charges from theft to arson, with judges imposing four-month terms to be served concurrently and additional fines.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Mireille Dare and Merle Er Cingma Gyn in what seems to be a maritime or sea setting. The legible bits point to names and a nautical context, but no clear event or outcome is discernible. Further readable details are required to form a concrete card.
More than 106 mourners attended the funeral of Arthur Watkin Wynne former manager and secretary of the Australian Associated Press in Melbourne. Wynne died last week in a private hospital aged his widow Eleaniors ha sane Wynne and his daughters Mrs Simmonds and Mr Clure among the chief mourners.
Edward Bewne, 20, Paul Edward Bewne 21, Willie Henry Pullee 21, James Puller 19 and Terence Allan Puller 13 were sentenced in Central Criminal Court after a trial last May. The youths, described as engravers from ertsland, faced charges relating to the sexual assault on a 15 year old girl. They received lengthy prison terms.
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