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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 58

Workers' Compensation Court. Muswellbrook Case

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 3 April 1947 · page 3

Judge Moffat presided at a sitting of the Workers' Compensation Court yesterday, when the hearing commenced in the claim of A. H. Hilder for…

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Should Have Been Court Material

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 April 1947 · page 3

A case listed for the Maitland Quarter. Sessions was. that against Earnest Grainger 38 a soldier, on a charge of sounds…

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Special Federal Court Cafe Proprietor Fined

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 3 April 1947 · page 1

At a special sitting of the Federal Court at Scone Court House on Tuesday last, Mr. R. C. Atkinson, P.M., presided, when one case…

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Pressing Problem for the Allies Japan’s New Police

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 April 1947 · page 7

TOKIO—(Associated Press)—PoIiceman Watanabe, huddling miserably these cold days in his unheated corner box, know it, but his future is one of the Allies’ most pressing problems…

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Murder of Czech Consul in Paris

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 April 1947 · page 1

PARIS, April 7. — Czech Embassy officials in Paris reject suggestions that the murder of the Czech Consul, Gejza…

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Host Charged with Murder. Death Follows Alleged Stabbing. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 2

William Devlin Crombie (38), of Strathfield, was murdered as a result of being stabbed through the heart following a drinking party in a house…

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To-day’s Leader: The Travail Of A Nation Police Allege Murder at at Enfield Man Stabbed in the Chest

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—William Devlin Crombie (38), Strathfield, was murdered, stabbed through the chest, following a drinking party in a house at Enfield last night, the police alleged in die Burwood Court to-day…

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£3000 Suiting Theft

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 3

MELBOURNE: Nearly £3000 worth of suiting material was stolen from an interstate transport truck in a depot in Hanna-street, south…

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Charged with Breach of Customs Alleged Purchase For Late Senator Keane

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Joseph Goldberg, a business man of York Street, City, pleaded not guilty to having imported prohibited goods last July at a special Federal Court to-day…

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Britain Shocked by Two Tragedies Boy Charges with Murder

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 1

LONDON, April 9.—Two gruesome tragedies involving the deaths of a four-year-old Welsh boy and a six-year-old London girl have shocked the-nation. A nine-year-old boy has been charged with murder in…

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Mother Charged with Murder of Son

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY Thursday.—Mrs. Ethel Jean Wright (31), of Strathfield, appeared at the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of murdering her son, Ian, aged four months. Mr. Davey, KC for the defence,…

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Sinatra Arrested on Assault Charge

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 1

HOLLYWOOD, April 10.—Crooner Frank Sinatra has been arrested and charged with assaulting Lee Mortimer, film columnist for the New York Daily Mirror. Sinatra pleaded not guilty and wax released on 500…

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World Court to Hear Albanio Case

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS (New York), April 10.—The Security Council, at Britain’s request, sent the dispute with Albants about the mining of…

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Alleged Armed Hold-Ups: Man In Court

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—Arising out of the alleged armed hold-up by ten men of a taxi-driver, C. J. Hann, on Sunday morning, Alan Andrews (24), labourer, was arrested by Newcastle police last night…

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Muswellbrook Police Court. Fines for Adulterated Milk

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 6

At the Police Court on Wednesday, Lloyd Douglas Lynch, representing the Milk Board, proceeded against John Lancer Smith, Keith Medhurst…

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Sentenced to Death for Assassination

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 5

LONDON, April 11.—sentenced to death by an Allied Military Court in Trieste for the assassination of the British Brigadier,…

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Theft From Vincent Boarding House

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

During the summer holidays, sums of money were taken from three rooms in a cafe boarding house in Vincent Street. The thief got away with £17 from…

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Two Sentenced To Hang Commit Suicide

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

Carmen Maria Mory, who was under sentence of death for atrocities she committed in the German…

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Second Man Charged in Alleged Hold-up

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Friday. — The second man allegedly concerned in the hold-up of a taxi-cab driver at Highfields on Sunday morning appeared in the police court to-day. He was Robert Johnstone…

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Tax Secrecy Necessary, Court Rules

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 April 1947 · page 4

The Taxation Commissioner has no right to disclose names of alleged tax evaders to a Minister, Parliament, or anyone else…

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