Court Sittings at Newcastle
NEWCASTLE, Sat.—The Minister of Justice, in a letter to Mr. F. H. Hawkins, MLA, on the subject of the complaint…
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Courts & crime, 1947
1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 58
Six Months’ Gaol for Stealing
Sidney Champion, 62 rigger, pleaded guilty at West Maitland court to-day to having at Hamilton on January 22 stolen a…
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BRISBANE, Monday.— The Brisbane police court was crowded to-day when Reginald Wingfield Spence Brown, accountant…
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NEWCASTLE Monday—Alleged to have stolen a motor car in Sydney, Lloyd Reynolds Raymond (23), manufacturer, was…
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NEWCASTLE, Monday.— On Saturday night William Thomas Haddon Marks (25), metal worker and another man raided an…
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By 9 o'clock last night police had made 793 arrests in the metropolitan area at the weekend—the greatest number for…
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William Fredrick Thomas, 21, a cleaner, charged at West Maitland Court with forging a-cheque for £3/10/, and with uttering it,…
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NOWRA, Friday—A witness in a case at the Kangaroo Valley Police Court had, in his opinion, committed deliberate perjury, the magistrate…
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MELBOURNE: The police said in the City Court that a 31-years-old Chinese had made a certain admission about the shooting on…
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Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson at Cessnock Police Court this morning Ralph Shippen was charged with…
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SYDNEY. Tuesday.—Police are to-day considering a check of the Botany Bay area following a report that torch Bashes, thought…
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LONDON, February 4.—The Magistrate decided Miss Kathleen Mary Ingleson, of Surrey, formerly private secretary to Thomas John Ley, a former NSW Minister of Justice, should be treated as hostile witness when the bearing of…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Four blasts from the siren, and the hoisting of a “police required” signal from the masts of the…
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Melbourne, wed. — Defectives investigating the murder of a Chinese seaman last week made a second arrest yesterday,…
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HAMBURG, February 5.—German police unleashed Alsatian police dogs to disperse thousands of coal looters in Hamburg. Police during the week arrested 4563 for looking in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Refer Waterside Dispute To Arbitration Court Australia-Wide Tie-Up Of Ships
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At the request of die Minister for Supply and Shipping (Senator Ashley) the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) her asked the Minister for Labour (Mr. Holloway) to refer the waterside dispute to the Federal…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —Unless the basic wage case is separated from the 40-hour week case the Australasian Council of Trade Unions will boycott the Commonwealth Arbitration Court’s hearing of the basic wage case, the…
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SOFIA, February 6 —The prosecution alleged “contact with a foreign mission” when 28 former Bulgarian army…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Showing great daring, a thief early to-day entered the butcher shop of Mrs. R. M. Teague, in Cleveland-st.,…
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NEWCASTLE, Friday. — The hearing was continued in the Quarter Sessions to-day of the case in which Edna Elizabeth…
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