Police Crack Down On Hotels
Liquor sales in hotel bars must cease at 6 p.m. sharp, following instructions issued by the Police Department this week…
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Courts & crime, 1947
1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 58
Spirit Merchant's License for Gloucester District. "Border Line Case," Says Magistrate
Granting a spirit merchant's licence to Mr. N. A. Vidal, secretary to Street and Parish, Pty., Ltd., Gloucester, Mr. J. B. Scobie, licensing magistrate…
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I have had loaned to me a copy of "The Scone Advocate" of Friday, 22nd June, 1894—53 years gone—in which an account is given of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →6.20 P.m the Deadline Police Direction From Superintendent
Police will ask publicans to begin clearing their bars at 6 p.m., so that all drinkers will be off the hotel premises by 6.20…
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YOUNGSTOWN (Ohio), March 1 A court of three judges yesterday sentenced a 16-year-old high school boy be electrocuted and another boy of the same age to life imprisonment for the murder of a salesman whose car the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Charged with Brother’s Death
CESSNOCK, Monday. — David Clarke appeared before Mr. E. Forest, J.P., to-day on a charge of manslaughter arising out of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mentally Deficient Police Allege
SYDNEY, Monday, — A man who, the police allege, is mentally deficient, was remanded until March, 17 at the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Photographs Necessary In Divorce Court
In future the Divorce Court would not hear any defended cases in which watchings and raids were involved unless photographs of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Corner Man Hunt Follows Reports of Robberies
After police had fired several shots early to-day, a man emerged from the scrub at Gladesville with hands raised and was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Armed Arrest of Man at Gladesville Three Hours’ Chase By Police Cars
SYDNEY, Monday.—After the police had fired several shots early to-day a man emerged from the scrub at Gladesville with his hands raised and was arrested. In a car nearby, police discovered goods, including…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charged with Stealing Motor Cycle
CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—Raymond Jones was . charged at Cessnock Police Court to-day with stealing a motor cycle, valued at between…
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At Cessnock Police Court this morning before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.M., Ray mond Jones was charged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Serious Pranks Lead To Gaol
Four dark-skinned natives of Caroona indulged in serious pranks outside the pale of the law at the beginning of the year…
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SINGAPORE, March 4.—Indian rubber estate workers used packets of pepper and cans of boiling water in a fierce…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Join Police Force At 19 Now
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Cabinet has lowered the police recruitment age from 21 to 19. The decision was reached on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sentenced for Contempt of Court
OTTAWA, March 5.— Judge McDougall sentenced Gordon Lunan, who is already serving a five years’ term for…
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SINGAPORE, March 5.—Fifty-nine Indian labourers and three Indian women were imprisoned for from three to six months at…
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At the Dubbo Quarter Sessions, Roy Governor, brother of the aboriginal murderer, Jimmy Governor, was sentenced to two years'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Hunt On In Victoria
A State-wide search has been launched by Victorian police for £2000 worth of goods stolen from a truck and trailer involved in…
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MELBOURNE, Thurs. — John Saunders Parser, 45, of Glen Iris, former general secretary of the Australian Natives’ Association,…
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