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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

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Increased Business at Court House. 1946 a Heavy Year

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 6

The annual return compiled by Mr. V. R. Jenkins, Clerk of Petty Sessions, shows that 175 charge cases and 124 summons cases were dealt…

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Crowded Court Hears Charges on Mulley Robbery Charges Against Three

Singleton Argus · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 4

Central Police Court was crowded to-day when, police gave evidence on charges of armed robbery at jockey George…

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Former N.S.W. Cabinet Minister On Murder Charge Alleged Payment of £200 to “Capture” a Man

Maitland Mercury · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 1

LONDON, January 17.—Ev idence that he had assisted in the capture” of a man, whose body was later discovered in a Surrey Shalk pit, and that he had been h anded £200 stg. by Thomas John Ley, former N.S.W. Minister of Justice, was given by a Crown…

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Armed Robbery at Mulley's Home. Crowded Court Hears Charges. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 1

The Central Police Court was crowdtd to-day when police gave evidence on charges of armed robbery at Jockey G Muiley's home at Maroubra on…

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To-day’s Leader: Better Food Services Armed Police Act In Georgia Governor Dispute

Maitland Mercury · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, January 17. — Armed police of the Georgia State force, acting on orders from the newly-elected Governor, Herman Talmadge, yesterday prevented Ellis G. Anrall from entering the Governor’s mansion in Atlanta,…

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21 Nazi Spies Sentenced

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK. Jan. 18.—A US Military Commission at Shanghal (China) to-day sentenced 21 Nazis for having operated a spy…

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Werewolves’ Espionage Agents Sentenced

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 1

MONTREAL. Jan. 18—Twenty-one Nazis, operating co-called Werewolves espionage agency In the Far East for the Japanese…

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11,000 Arrests For Stealing Coal

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Jan. 17.—Eleven thousand people works arrested in Hamburg last week for stealing coal, says the Hamburg…

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Police Praise Helpers

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 3

KURRI KURRI, Saturday.—A verdict of accidental death from drowning was re turned by the District Coroner (Mr. W. O…

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Charged with Murder at Brisbane

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday.—Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown (43), accountant, Pleaded not gunty when he was charged in the police Court…

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Collapsed When Charged In Court

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY , Monday. — Carmel Yvonne Council (88). a stenographer fell unconscious in the Central Court to-day when charged with…

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Man Pleads Not Guilty To Murder Charge

Singleton Argus · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 2

Reginald Wingfield S. Brown (49). accountant, pleaded not guilty when he was charged in the Brisbane Police Court to-day with the…

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Police Control Art Gallery Crowds

Singleton Argus · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 2

For the first time in the history of the National Art Gallery, police were called to control crowds there yesterday afternoon. About 2000…

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Delay Decision On 40-Hour Week Claim ACTU View Of Court Move To Combine Basic Wage Hearing

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The union’s chief objection to a combined hotting of the 40-hour week caw and the wage application was that it would still further delay a decision on the 40-hour application, said die secretary of the…

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Four on Stealing Charge

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 2

Ronald Stephen Kelly, 18, machinist, Joseph Patrick Berthold, 19 labourer, Allan Joseph Berthold, 21 labourer and John…

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Kieth Hope On Theft Charges

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 1

Keith George Hope (23), farm laborere, who gave himself up to Scone Police some time since, was committed for trial yesterday from…

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Singleton Girl Changed with Murder

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY Tuesday —[?] Rigg[?] 20 was present at the City Cor[?] Court to-day when the inquest was opened into the…

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Court To Settle Controversy

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 3

MUNICH, Jan. 21— Richard Strauss, composer Der Rosen Kavalier, who is now an Austrian citizen will appear before the…

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Delay Decision On 40-hour Week Claim Actu View of Court Move[?] to Combine Basic Wage Hearing

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday. — The union's chief objection to a combined hearing of the 40-hour week case and the basic wage application was…

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Complicity in Hungarian Plot Charged

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 January 1947 · page 1

BELGRADE, Jan. 22.— Quoating a Yugoslav news agency despatch from Budapest, Renter says that, following the Hungarian…

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