Attempted Murder Charge
HOBART, Friday.—In the police court Frank Kendall Williams was charged with attempted murder. It was alleged that on…
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Courts & crime, 1947
1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 58
Stole Diamonds: Ten Years’ Gaol
YOKOHAMA. May 29. —A military court martial convicted Colonel Edward Murray and sentenced him to 10 years’ imprisonment with hard…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Parramatta district Coroner, Mr. Williams, returned a finding of murder in his inquest at Ryde…
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Taken from a sick bed in a forester's cottage in Upper Bavaria, Frau Emma Goering is being charged by a Nazi de-Naziflcation Court with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Kurri Small Debts Court. Slander Claim
At kurri kurri Small Debts Court, before Mr. H. L. Berry, P.M., Nita Doris Davies proceeded against…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Licensing Court Mr. H. J. Tulloch' Obtains a License
Mr. V. H. wells presided over a sitting of the Licensing Court at West Maitland on wednesday…
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CANBERRA, Sat. — General Post Office headquarters in London has issued a statement denying that food parcels, for Britain…
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NEW YORK. May 31.—At Belmont Park, [?] won the mile and a quartex [?] Handicap yesterday by two [?] from…
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SYDNEY, Saturday. — Pay increases retrospective to December 6 last were granted in die Industrial Commission to 104 senior officers of the New South Wales police force. The President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Raids in China Communist Rising Feared
SHANGHAI, May 31.—Chinese troops, police, and secret service officers arrested 31 persons in a series, of pre-dawn raids…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Probe Deaths of Doctor’s Four Wives
LONDON, May 31.—One hour before mourners began to gather at Christ Church at Southport for the funeral of Mrs. Amy Clements, 47, her doctor husband, four time married, Robert George Clements, 65, was found dying on a bed in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →German Girls Urged to Have Illegitimate Babies “Lady Reich Expert” To Be Tried By German Court
STUTTGART—(Associated Press)—A 40-year-old woman accused of being a ringleader in the programme which taught German girls to have babies for the “Fuehrer and the Reich” regardless of their marital status or lack of it, is now…
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When police raided premises in Elgin-st., West Maitland, early on Saturday morning, 23 men were arrested…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday— William Arthur Foster, 57 a member of the State Executive of the RSL and treasurer of the War…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sequel to the Domain Disturbance Wharf Labourer Sentenced To Month’s Gaol
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the Central Court to-day, Mr. Pickup, S.M., sentenced Bernard O'Sullivan (32), wharf labourer, to one month's gaol (or his part in the disturbance in the Sydney Domain on March IS, when the meeting…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday —James Kingpatrick, 71 medical Practioned of Elizabeth Bay and his wife, were set in gaol by Judge…
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"Any gunman who takes it on himself to hold up a decent citizen must do so with a full knowledge that if convicted, he must…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →California's Dean of "Digest" Acclaims Police Science
Scores of American cities have better police protection because August vollmer, of Berkeley, showed the way. How this father of the modern cop…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Offensive Behaviour Charge at Cessnock Court
Charged at Cessnock Police Court th's morning with offensive behaviour, James Henderson pleaded guilty and was fined £1, with 8/ costs, by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Indecent Language Charge at Cessnock Court
At Cessnock. Police Court this morning, Gorton Craft was charged with having used indecent language in Main Street on May 31…
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