Colonel Charged With Desertion
The "Daily Telegraph" Calcutta correspondent says Colonel W. J. Cumming, 49, who commanded a battalion in the Western Desert in 1940, was…
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Courts & crime, 1947
1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 58
Theft Of Hesse Crown Jewels
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, —Leonard Keeler, a criminologist, giving evidence before the court martial trying CoL…
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A Randwick bookmaker, Albert Fatrick Henry, of the firm of A. P. Henry and Sons, estate agents, was fined £50 in the special Federal Court for having…
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Kurri was made to laugh and laugh for to quell a disturbance at the meeting of the O.A Pensioners yesterday…
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CHICAGO, Feb 14.—The United States Circuit of Appeals ruled that in illinols “it is liber[?] per [?] to write of a man…
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AUCKLAND (N.Z.): A young man and two boys have been sentenced to life imprisonment by New Zealand courts…
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LONDON, Feb.- 16.—Ten boys, aged 18. and under, have been charged with having murdered William Peter Fieldmouse, 21, an…
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BATHURST, Monday.— About 50 witnesses are expected to be called the trial which began in Bathurst Supreme Court to-day of Frederick…
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Ten boys, aged 16 and under, have been charged with having murdered William Peter Fieldhouse, 21, an assistant gardening instructor, at…
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LAHORE, Feb. 16. — Chanos aided police who were attempting to disperse a Moslem demonstration…
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MUNICH, Germany (Associated Press)— “When American authorities got an order recently to supervise the purchase and…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The death occurred yesterday of Mr. W. R. McCourt CMG Cleric of the Legislative Assembly…
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About 50 witnesses are expected to be called at the trial which began in Bathurst Supremo Court to-day of Frederick…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Cecil John Rolls (25), a dealer, appeared under heavy police guard at the Central Court to-day charged with yesterday’s sensational theft of £8500 worth of jewellery from the Hunter-street jewellery shop of Fairfax and Roberts Ltd. He was remanded without bail until February 25 on three charges…
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Yesterday's jewel theft was one of the most daring in recent years. The bandit, pointed a pistol at a salesman in the shop of Fairfax and…
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Cecil John Rolls (25), dealer, appeader under heavy police guard at the Central Court to-day, charged with yesterday's sensational theft of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Breaking and Entering Man Prefers Gaol To Grape Picking
At Cessnock Police Court this morning Joseph King was charged with having broken and entered the wine depot of Robert Elliott in North Avenue on…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Dramatic stories concerning the £8500 jewel robbery yesterday afternoon from the shop of Fairfax and Roberts, Ltd., of Hunter-st., were told by the salesman who was robbed at pistol point end the taxi-driver…
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At Cessnock Courthouse yesterday the District Coroner (Mr. W. S. Johnston) conducted an inquiry into…
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Police, searching for the armed bandit who yesterday stole jewellery valued at £8,500 from a city shop, questioned a man last night and…
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