Watch Theft
NEWCASTLE. Tuesday.—For stealing a watch valued at £5 John Thomas Lawson (20), labourer, was sentenced to two…
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Courts & crime, 1947
1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 58
Housebreaker Eludes Police
SYDNEY, Tuesday— A young housebreaker escaped From a cordon, of police at Chatswood shortly before lunch to-day…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday, — A 85 year-old man, for whom police had been searching since Friday, following the shooting of a woman at…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday. — Sergeant W. Booth, who reti[?]es on Friday after a service of 36 years in the police force, was…
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On Sunday afternoon in the presence of a large gathering of friends the new tennis court at the Monte Plo Orphanage,…
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LONDON, February 11. —Two “barbers” powdered the Royal Princesses’ faces with giant puffs. giving them “freedom of the seas,” when King Neptune held court aboard the Vanguard soon after the battlesh ip crossed the Equator. Then two “doctors”…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judge Tests Helmsman’s Reading of Compass Marine Court Investigates Grounding Of Dee Why
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Judge Stoddert, who is presiding over a special Marine Court of Inquiry last night made a special trip to Manly on the ferry Dee Why to test the helmsman’s reading of the compass…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—In the fulI Arbitration Court yesterday it was alleged that the Victorian Railways were paying time and a half for Saturday work, and being refunded by the State Government, despite the fact that it was a…
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GOULBURN, Wed.—Three teen-age boys, described as former model Sunday-School, pupils, were each sentenced to five years’…
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Prisoners on strike at Pentridge Gaol (Melbourne) were brought before a visiting magistrate (Mr. McLean, P.M.) at the gaol this…
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RANGOON, Feb. 11.—Seven people are reported to have been killed and about 20 wounded when guards at a prison near Rangoon…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Prisoners on strike at Pentridge Gaol were brought before a visiting Magistrate, Mr. LcLean, P.M., at the gaol this morning. Simultaneously, the police department revealed it had not been asked to intervene in the trouble…
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CESSNOCK, Wed. — Cessnock Council at its meeting last night decided to instruct the Mayor (Ald. Brown) to call a public…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Model Sunday School Pupils Get 5 Years' Gaol Sequel to Smash and Grab Raids
Three teen-aged boys, described as former model Sunday School pupils, were each sentenced to five years' gaol in…
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MELBOURNE, Wednesday-—If the workers were given a greater say in the running of the nation's industries they would help the country produce more, said the Federal Secretary of the Gas Employees’ Union (Mr. C. Crofts) when…
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At the local Court on Friday last a cross action was heard before Mr. Sargeson P.M., in which William Lamb, of Lemon Tree proceeded against John…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Time and a half for Saturday work and double time for Sundays would cost the New South Wales railways a total of more than £670,000 a year, a railway official stated in the Federal Arbitration Court…
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LONDON, February 14 — A Bow Street magistrate yesterday heard a preliminary charge of larceny against-the couple…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—A pinetree twig and specimens of rare earth helped to convict a man in Canberra Supreme Court. He is…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—When Valentine. John McCarthy, 24, appeared at Central Court yesterday. It was alleged that, while he…
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