Sentenced For Trying To Separate States
A court at Skoplje (Yugoslavia) sentenced to death by shooting seven members of a group of 13, which was allegedly organised to procure…
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Courts & crime, 1947
1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 58
Appeals in Ley Murder Case
The London "Evening News' says that Lawrence John Smith, who with Thomas John Ley, was, on March 24, sentenced to death for the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Move to Have House Preference Clause Amended League Action Following Local Court Case
Singleton sub-branch of the R.S.S.A.I.L.A. on Friday night passed a resolution to make representation to have clauses of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Today’s Leader: China’s War Years 51 Persons Killed In Communal Rioting At Bombay Police Open Fire To Stop Street Battles
BOMBAY, March 31.—At least 51 persons were killed in communal rioting yesterday. Rioting broke out between the Moslems and the Hindus in three areas of central Bombay. Bodies were reported to be lying in several streets…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Three Years' Gaol Sentence. For Big Army Theft
Ernest Edward Barwick (21), laborer, and Harold James Overton (20), laborer, pleaded guilty at Maitland Quarter Session yesterday to having…
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Joseph King, 35, laborer, pleaded guilty at the Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday to having, at Cessnock, broken and entered the store of Robert Elliott,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Evasion Of Preference Charged
SINGLETON—At last meeting of the Returned Soldiers League the action of the Department of the interior was criticised for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Woman Charged at Sessions
Alma May Kemp, 30, pleaded not guilty at Maitland Quarter Sessions to-day to p charge that in May last year [?] fraudulently…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charge of Assault Counter Charge of Entering Enclosed Land
At Cessnock Police Court this morning. William Benjamin Lewis proceeded against Percy John…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Workers' Compensation Court
His Honor Judge Moffitt, of the Workers' Compensation Court, visited Scone to-day, when the matter for determination between…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain Opening National Police College
A new National Police College is to be opened in Britain this year. It will offer an opportunity to every constable to fit himself for filling the highest…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sold Adulterated Milk. Fine at Cessnock Court
Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.M., at Cessnock Police Court this morning. Selina Morris, a Vincent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Penalty Rates Decision Grants Some Claims Court’s Complex Judgment May Bring Delayed Reaction
MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — In a long and involved Judgment on the union claims for penalty rates for week-end work, the Arbitration Court has granted some of the claims and rejected others…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Years' Gaol for Stealing Trial of Scone Thefts Concluded
Ernest Edward Barwick, 21, labourer, was sentenced at Maitland Quarter Sessions on Monday to three years' imprisonment…
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CESSNOCK. Tuesday. — At Cessnock Police Court to-day. before Mf H. L Sargeson, P.W., William Benjamin Lewis…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butchers Mulct of £90 For Overcharging Stipendiary Magistrate Had Field Day Seven Local Defendants Before Court
Four butchers, two of them shop proprietors and two shop men, were yesterday mulct of £90 for overcharging for meat. They appeared In the Special Federal Court before Mr. R. Atkinson, Stipendiary Magistrate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Refuse Fight Permit
AUCKLAND (NZ), April 2.— The police have refused to issue a permit for a fight between the American negro, Willie Jones,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fit to Plead S to a Charge of Murder
SYDNEY, Wed.—After nearly two years in a mental institution woman to-day was ruled by a jury to be St to plead to a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Raymond Terrace Police Court
On Thursday, March 27th, before Mr. Sargeson, P. M., H. V. Andrews, of Dunnolly, Singleton was charged on an information laid by Herbert Campbell…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sentenced For Football Bribery
NEW YORK April 8.—Two bookmakers David Kraukauer and Harvey-Stemmer, were yesterday each sentenced to five to…
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