Woman Fatally Stabbed. Husband Charged with Murder. Brisbane
Jessie Waters (20), married, was fatally stabbed at Ipswich last night It is alleged the woman was attacked by a soldier at a hotel where she was…
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Courts & crime, 1944
1,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 51
Theft of Wristlet Watch. Case Before Merriwa Court
Before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., on Friday last at the Merriwa Courthouse, Ocean Hannah Houlahan pleaded guilty to the theft of a wristlet…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—In the Quarter Sessions to-day the well-known jockey. John Milton Coutis, was charged with wanton driving and…
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A new method of clearing the scrub has been discovered. Quite a large portion of the scrub land at Weston was cleaned on Sunday, when a horde of…
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IPSWICH, Wed—At the Ipswich Court, Colin Lindsay Waters, 32, an Australian soldier, was remanded until June 9 on…
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SYDNEY Wed.—Mrs. Thelma Linnell Cook, 31, who had pleaded not guilty to having murdered her husband, Donald Sydney…
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MELBOURNE Wed. — James Albert John Hussey, 35, a pay sergeant in the AIF, who had been convicted on 23 counts of…
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Thelma Linell-Cook, 31, was acquitted in the Central Criminal Court in Sydney on a charge of having murdered her husband,…
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A warning to police to be chary of executing warrants to search for stolen goods as they might land themselves in an action for damages was…
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Two youths, aged 17 and 15, who absconded from their homes at Lambton, were arrested by Singleton police shortly before lunch…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Convicted in Special Federal Court Rylands Fined for Dismissing Men
Convicted in the Special Federal Court on 35 charges under the National Security (Manpower) Regulations, Rylands…
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NEWCASTLE Thursday.—Arthur Cecil Davies (44) miner, was charged in the police court to-day with having in his…
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NEWCASTLE Thursday — Charles Hayes, 46, of 3 Jellicoe Parade, New Lambton, a mechanic in the police department…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Arthur Worthing 63, a rigger, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment at the Central Criminal…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—When three [?]en appeared at Burwood court [?]day on a charge of stealing [?]it was stated that meat…
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Boy Kable (32), laborer, was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court on August 28 on a charge of murder by the City Coroner on…
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No evidence was offered in support of Hie application of Robert Elliott. of Oakdale, Pokolbin, for a spirit license for his vineyard, at the quarterly…
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MELBOURNE Friday—A comment by the [?] Justice of New South Wales that Regulation 15 of the [?] Security (Manpower) Regulations would, if va[?] reduce Australians to serfdom seemed hard on a large [?]…
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SYDNEY Sat.—Frederick Clifford, a grandfather, of Ashfield, has to pay Roy Robert Smith, 45, AIF, £100 for stealing his wife…
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LONDON Jane 2—It was officially announced from Allied headquarters in Italy late today that the 5th Army had captured Valmontone and Velletri, and the 8th Army occupied Tarentino, the last named being five miles north-east of Frosinone…
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