Compensation Court Hernia Case
A denial that Injury was received in employment was the defence when Charles Joseph Jones, of High-street, Cessnock, claimed compensation from…
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Courts & crime, 1944
1,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 51
Agostini Tells of Fatal Struggle Women In Court Weep
MELBOURNE Tuesday—Women in the public galleries wept as Antonio Agostini, 41, to-day told the Criminal Court that, in 1929, before his marriage to L[?]da Platt, he found her with her head in the [?]ven of a gas stove…
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NEWCASTLE Wed—For stealing 12 bags of salt, Walter John Whitehurst (54). carter, was fined £10 or 20 days in the…
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Antonio Agostini denied in the Supreme Court in Melbourne yesterday that he had murdered his wife, Linda Agostini, the…
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SYDNEY Wednesday.— Woolcott tin-lies told the Registrar in Bankruptcy that certain members of the Victorian Club,…
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On the application of Sergeant P. G. Hale, Stanley George Senior, 29, labourer, was remanded until August 1 at West Maitland…
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LONDON June 28.—A court-martial at Alexandria has sentenced to death three members of the crew of a Green destroyer…
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SINGLETON, Thurs—Sergeant W. H. Wiggins, who has been attached to the local police for 18 months, has received notice of…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. — Antonic Agostini was to-day sentenced to six year hard labour for the manslaughter of his wife…
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LISMORE Friday.— At the Lismore Circuit Court, Mr. Justice Halse Rodgers sentenced Donald Ritchie, 29, an…
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Antonio Agostini was to-day sentenced to six years' hard labor for the manslaughter of his wife, Linda, known as the "Pyjama Girl."…
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The following cases were heard at the Workers Compensation Court at Newcastle last Wednesday, before Judge Perdriau:—…
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Antonio Agostini was found not guilty of the murder of his wife. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. Agostini was remanded for…
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The Germans last night launched a determined counter-attack with infantry and tanks on the right flank of the British front, says an American correspondent in Normandy…
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SYDNEY, Monday .— At the Quarter: Sessions today: Milton Glen Thompson, IS, and Ronald Stanley:, Hoppner,. 19, two long sentence…
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NEWCASTLE mon—For stealing two gallons of motor oil Wilfred Lionel Dixon (30), mechanic, was fined £7 or 11 days in the police…
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Harold John: Lagan, 20, labourer, pleaded guilty, at West Maitland court today to having been drink on July 1 and used…
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Mr. J. B. Sandbach, the Marlborough Street (London) magistrate, helped to end all the crazy court nonsense when he…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday—The High Court decision against the Commonwealth in two Tasmanian claims arising out of the…
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Timothy Edward Barry was charged at Cessnock Police Court this morning' with betting in the bar of the…
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