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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 58

Seek New Approach To Basic Wage Unions Want Court To Assess Reasonable living Standard

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — During the Arbitration Court hearing to decide whether the applications for a 40-hour week and increased basic wage should be taken together, Mr. R. M. Eggleston, for the A.C.T.U., said the…

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Murder And Looting On An Extensive Scale

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, March 19.—Reports from all areas of the Punjab are reassuring except from the Attock district, where murder, arson and looting is continuing on an extensive scale, says the Labore correspondent of the “London Times”. Hindus are being murdered…

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Murder, Arson, Looting Continues In Part Of Punjab

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 2

Reports from all areas of the Punjab are reassuring, except from the Attock district, where murder, arson and looting is…

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Special Precautions, but No Disturbance Court Cases Follow Yesterday's Domain Brawl

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 2

Special precautions were taken by a big squad of police to prevent any disturbance, either inside or outside the precincts of Central Police Court this morning, when 17 men and one woman were charged in relation to yesterday's lunch-hour riot in Sydney…

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Sequel To Disturbances In The Domain Seventeen Men And One Woman Before Court

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday—There were special precautions by a big squad of police to prevent any disturbances, either inside or outside the precincts of Central Police Court this morning, when 17 men and one woman were charged in…

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Hours and Basic Wage Cases Will Be Separate Majority Decision of Full Arbitration Court

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 2

By a majority decision the full Arbitration Court decided in Melbourne to-day to hear the 40-hour week case and the basic…

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Cases Settled Out of Court Magistrate Congratulates Solicitor and Veterinarian on Settlement

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 4

Police Magistrate M. J. D. Austin yesterday congratulated the two parties on having reached an agreement that four…

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Newcastle Miner Sentenced to Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 3

At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, Joseph Allen, 38, of Waratah, a miner, was sentenced to…

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Murderer Suicides in Gaol Cell

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday.—Sentenced to life imprisonment on March 11 for the murder of Bronia Mary Armstrong (19),…

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4 Years’ Gaol for Receiving

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 5

LONDON, March 21.—Derek Vincent Owers, who with Erica Wilfred Dickens, walked out of an hotel at Goathland…

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Scone Police Court Mr. M. J. D. Austin, P.M., occupied the Bench at the Scone Police Court on Wednesday last

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 3

Police v. Albert John Cox, Erwin Freeman Carter, Frederick Joseph Merrick, and Lyall Cardigan Merrick, each of whom…

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Police Highway Patrols

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—The “negative approach” of the police authorities regarding city car parting and traffic prosecutions…

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Railway Platform Altercation Proved Costly Two Young Men Mulct of £22/16/- Police Court Story of Early Morning Encounter

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 6

The hurly burly of congestion always evident when a train pulls into a railway station of any size was added to during the wee small hours of the morning of December 29, when two young local residents, who said they had gone to a train to meet…

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Grant of 1830 Prevents Court Case Finalisation Application to Enter Land for Coal

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 March 1947 · page 2

At the Mining Wardens' Court conducted on Wednesday, the Metropolitan Mininc Warden, Mr V. lawler, adjourned the…

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Assault Case at Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1947 · page 5

SINGLETON, Friday.—Leslie M. Varnum, of Elizabeth-street, Singleton, and Leonard M. Maher, of John-street, were each fined…

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Four Japs Sentenced To Hang

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1947 · page 1

RANGOON, March, 22.— The father of a British airman whom the Japanese beheaded was in the military court yesterday…

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Ley Gives Evidence At Trial For Murder

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, March 22.—All the talk about him being jealous of Mrs. Brook was so much fantasy; he was interested in her financial affairs but not in her sexual affairs, Thomas John Ley said in the Old Bailey yesterday…

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Youth Charged With Murder

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 3

PERTH, Monday. —Following the death early this morning of his 21-years-old brother an 18 year old youth will appear on a…

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Soldier Sent Jo Gaol

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 2

A sentence of 14 days was imposed on Keith Robert Jakins 19, a soldier, when lie pleaded guilty at West Maitland court,…

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Mutilated and Strangled Body in Park Murder Trial Opens At Criminal Court

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.— In the Central Criminal Court today day the Crown alleged that Clifford Ernest James Kennedy (22), truckers, had stolen a women’s handbag to lore her to Cooper Park, Bellevue Hill, where her naked, mutilated…

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