Margarine Theft
NEWCASTLE, Tuesday—Two employees of Kitchen and Sons, soap manufactures, at Mayfield, stole each a box of margarine…
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Courts & crime, 1946
1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 77
Italian Generals Sentenced
TRIESTE, May 14.—Two Italian generals were found guilty by the Extraordinary Court of Assizes for handling…
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TOKIO, May 14.—The jurisdiction of the Allied War Crimes Tribunal that is to try top-ranking Japanese on war crimes charges was challenged to-day by Ichiro Kiyose, the white-haired chief of the Japanese defence counsel. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anti-t.b. Youth Appeal and Police Boys' Club. Contributed
When Aberdare Miners Lodge received an invitation to enter a candidate in the Queen competition to be conducted in aid of the Anti-T.B. youth…
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Stanley Benjamin Fogarty (20), soldier, of Liverpool Camp, and Arthur Joseph Hanson (20), labourer, of St. Peters, were remanded at the…
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LONDON, May 15.—“I did this to keep all the worry from Dad and Mum, whom I love dearly. May God forgive me.”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local and General News Review of Local Hotels by Licensing Magistrate
Mr. J. Scobie. Chairman of the Licenses Reduction Board, occupied the Bench this morning at a sitting of the local Licensing Court. Hotels…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Food Trains Looted by Germans Police Stoned
Looting of food trains has become widespread in the British-controlled Essen-Duisberg area in the Ruhr, says an Exchange-Telegraph…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Startling Affair in Licensing Court Difference Between Barrister and Local Solicitor
There was a startling turn of events during the sitting this morning in the local court house of the Licensing Court. A…
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NEW ORLEANS, May 16. — The Louisiana, Supreme Court declined to intervene in the second attempt to electrocute…
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BRUSSELS May 17—Jean Grouls,. Burgomaster of Brussels throughout the . occupation, was sentenced to five years gaol…
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THE HAGUE May 17—A Special Court sentenced the Dutch Nazi Henri Maasdick the city’s Deputy mayor during the German…
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Mrs. Ida Linda May Saltmarsh, 31 years, was charged at a special court in the Wagga Hospital yesterday with the murder of her two children,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Echo of Hall St. Accident Richard Victor Further Charged
At Cessnock Police Court on Tuesday there was an echo of the accident in Hall Street on September 1, 1945, when Thomas Burke Jun[?] was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Former German Policeman Sentenced to Death Attempted to Establish Hitler Youth
The British Military Court in Germany sentenced to death a former German policeman, Kurt Limpke, who, under the guise of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lengthy Court List. 13 Hours' Sitting
It was animals' day at the Police Court yesterday. Sheep, a horse, a calf, a dog, and rabbits were mentioned in various chargcs which engaged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Hotel-Keeper, Store-Keeper Fined For Over-Charging Serious View Taken by Stipendiary Magistrate Respective Fines £30 & £2
Local hotel-keeper Lcslie Errol Doohan, of the Criterion Hotel, was fined £30 by Stipendiary Magistrate R. C. Atkinson when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Review of Town's Hotes Sitting of Special Licensing Court
A number of structural alterations anil various improvements to local hotels are under way, have been carried out, or are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"I Will Go to Gaol; I Won't Pay the Fine." Dramatic Outburst in Rabbit Case. Principles Against Paying, Says Grazier
"I will not pay the fine; on principle I cannot; I will go to gaol rather than pay up." This dramatic outburst, behind which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Antorescu Sentenced to Death (Australian Associated Press)
BUCHAREST, May 18.—Marshal Ion Antonescu, puppet Premier in German-occupied Rumania, was sentenced to death for war crimes by the Peoples’ Tribunal. Twelve others, including Mihai Antonescu,…
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