Alleged Wheat Theft
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. — In the Police Court to-day Thomas George Ross Griffiths (28), butcher, was charged with stealing…
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Courts & crime, 1946
1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 77
Battered to Death with Pistol Police Theory On Kiosk Murder
SYDNEY, Wed.—The police theory now was that a pistol, owned by Ronald Douglas Morris (26), journalist, probably had been used to batter to dealth Mrs. Jeanette Wicks in her York Street tobacco kiosk on January 2,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Third Day of Kiosk Murder Trial Radio Recording Truck Moved From Court Yard
SYDNEY Wednesday.— When the case in which Douglas Ronald Morris (26), journalist, is charged with the murder of Mrs. Jeanette Wicks, a in a York Street, tobacco kiosk, on January 2. was resumed to-day, Patrick Shaw…
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A man was sentenced, in the Bankruptcy Court in Sydney, to three months' gaol for having contributed to his bankruptcy by…
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A special court was to have been held at West Maitland courthouse this afternoon to hear eight charges under national security…
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Five defendants, who will later be called upon to answer six charges, appeared before Clerk of Petty Sessions, Mr. A. S. McDonald, this…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£5000 Theft From R.a.a.f. Convictions and Sentences
Thefts of R.A.A.F. property resulted in 12 past and present members of the R.A.A.F. being charged at Port Melbourne Court…
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Police broke in a door of a house in Haberfield on Monday, and found the dead bodies of a man and a woman. Both had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Says Nunn-May Acted From High Motives Atom Scientist Sentenced To Ten Years Gaol
LONDON, May 2.—When Dr. Alan Nunn May, British atom scientist, was invited to become a member of Cavendish laboratory staff lit 1942, he bore an exemplary character and high scientific qualifications, it was stated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Hoaxed At The Harbour Bridge
SYDNEY Thursday—An anonymous phone call to a number of police stations early to-day sent police rushing to to the Harbour Bridge, only to discover they, together with early rising harbour-side residents and ferry passengers, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Long Cross-Examination On Bloodstains Expert’s Testimony At Kiosk Murder Trial
SYDNEY, Thurs.—The head of the C.I.B. Scientific Bureau (Detective-Sergeant James H. Rogers) was cross-examined for two hours about bloodstains, when the trial of Douglas Ronald Morris (26), Journalist, on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Judged Order In Kiosk Murder Trial Piece From Bloodstained Suit For Examination
SYDNEY Thursday—When the trial of Douglas Ronald Morris (26), journalist, on a charge of having murdered Mrs. Jeanette Wicks on January 2, entered its fourth day to-day, Mr, J. J. Kinkead (for Morris) asked that a part…
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NEWCASTLE: In the Police Court Edward Alwyn Mulholland (28), labourer, was charged with breaking into the shop of J. J…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Convicts Again Riot In Milan Gaol
ROME May 3.—For the second time in a fortnight convicts in San Vittore Gaol, Milan, rioted on Wednesday, occupying part of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Murder of Three Australians
The Australian Government has seat a strong protest to the Indonesian authorities on the recent "wanton murder of three Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kiosk Murder Trial Unprecedented Public Interest
The defence of Ronald Douglas Morris (26), journalist, will probably be entered into late this afternoon or Monday, when the Crown case is…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Coroner committed Phyll[?] May Evans, 38 domestic duties, Nellie Ruth Bell, 34, domestic duties,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Forster Valuation Court
In the Valuation Appeal Court jurisdiction at Forster last week, Dorothea M. Smyth was listed as an appellant against a valuation made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tribute to Retiring Police Chief
The retirement of Inspector Hale from the police force concludes a long and meritorious service…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Journalist's Denial Evidence at Kiosk Murder Trial. SYDNEY
The defence oi Ronald Douglas Morris (26), journalist, will probably be entered into late this afternoon or on Monday, when the Crown case will…
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