Two Youths Dealt With For Burglary
SINGLETON, Thursday.—William tools Haydon (18) and Maxwell John Williams(17) pleaded guilty at the Quarter Sessions, before His…
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Courts & crime, 1947
1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 23 of 58
Police Boys’ Band Shows Good Results
An outstanding feature of the Amac Day Sports at Maitland was the splendid, display given by the Barwood Police Citizens Boys’ Club…
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Wm. L. Hayden (18) and Maxwell J. Williams (17) were charged at Singleton Quarter Sessions on Wednesday with entering the…
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Mr. M. J. D. Austin, P.M., occupied the Bench in Scone Police Court last week. POLICE v. Buddy Najor (for whom Mr. G. M. Westgarth…
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Two young men, with long police records, were on Wednesday sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment by his Honor Judge…
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Because there had been neglect by the parents of two young men, both appeared before His Honor Judge Nield in the local…
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In the District Court on Wednesday, Judge Nield upheld the appeals of two local men in regard to traffic breaches for…
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John James Keating 41, labourer, was charged at West Maitland court this morning with having been drunk and with having insufficient…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A police cyclist to-day risked his life when he forced bilting horse, attached to a milk cart, into a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To-day’s leader: The World’s Housing Problem Search For Airman Suspected of Taxi Murder Hundreds of Deserters Questioned
LONDON, May 2.—In their search for an Airman, suspected by detectives to be concerned in the Tyler taxi murder, in which the victim was shot three times in the Trent-Derby road, about 30 miles from Birmingham, late on Tuesday night, detectives have so far interviewed more than a thousand airmen…
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PRAGUE, May 2. —Jan Bata, the former Czech shoe manufacturer, who is in Brazil, was sentenced in his absence to 15 years’…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.— Charged with having stolen £1600 from his uncle, Dennis Shine, 26, traveller and auditor, of Sydney,…
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BRISBANE, Saturday.—Murder and suicide are suspected by the police following the discovery of two bodies in a house near the…
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NEW YORK, May 4.—One prisoner was stabbed to death and six others were injured in a riot at the United States Army…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Thieves their car after chasing a man at Turawan, two police constables found that a tunic, containing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Terrorists Attack Gaol and Release 251 PRISONERS New Upsurge of Jewish Violence In Palestine
JERUSALEM, May 5.—In a new upsurge of Jewish terrorism yesterday at least 15 persons, including 14 Jews, lost their lives. One Arab and four Jewish prisoners and three Jewish attackers were killed during the Acre prison break, and five Jews in an…
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Evidence on a charge of having behaved in a scandalous manner which outraged public decency; was heard at Maitland…
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NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.— In the police court to-day, Edward Jackson 26, Labourer, was committed for trial on a charge of having broken…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.— Maitland, Lithgow, Wagga Young Cessnock, Wollongong and Canowindra are among the country towns in which…
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Four cases were listed before his Honor, Judge Niel, at the Muswellbrook District Court on 29th April. Leslie Charles Thiess, represented…
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