District Court (Before Judge Neild)
At Cessnock District Court yesterday William Nixon appealed against the severity of the penalty imposed for a conviction for driving under the…
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Courts & crime, 1948
1,099 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 26 of 55
Malaya Deaths Caused by Communists Police Identify Armed Gangsters
Police have identified the armed gangsters who murdered three European planters on Wednesday as members of…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Stating that he might test the matter legally in court, the Minister for Lands, Mr. W. F. Sheahan, said inquiries suggested that the allotment of a black of land to Mr. C. I. S. Falkiner in on ex-servicemen’s…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wave of Communist Violence in Malaya Native Reserves To Aid Police and Troops
SINGAPORE, June 19.—Latest centre of tension in the Communist wave of violence sweeping Malaya, is Tapah, centre of large rubber and mining interests. According to the newspaper, “Free Press,” police and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →‘Queen of the Hunter’ Competition Three Candidates Asked For Police-Citizens’ Boys’ Club Appeal
To raise funds for Mainland Police-Citizens’ Boys’ Club a committee met last night to discuss a popular method, and it was decided to hold a “Queen of the Hunter” competition and invite three organisations to nominate candidates…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Frederick Audsley (61), a carpenter, accused of having shot a young man whom he found in his daughter’s bedroom yesterday morning, was remanded at the Central Court to-day to July 1 on a charge of…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Percy Neville, labourer, appeared in Central Court to-day charged with the murder of Frances John…
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LONDON, June 21.—Because there will be a full moon to-night, police hope for the capture of a maniac who murdered two children and attempted to murder another during the past two months…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A second man was charged at the Central Court to-day with the murder at Alexcendra, on or about June 9…
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All liquor licenses in the Scone Licensing District were renewed, but only after the S.M. had issued a[?]warning to seven of the…
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A second man was charged at the Central Court today with the murder at Alexandria, about 9th June, of Francis John Beaumont…
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Sir.— The forthcoming Police Ball, part of the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the establishment of a Boys' Club, prompts me to write this…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Dr. Alfred L. Mclnnes, of Moonee Ponds, was allegedly assaulted by a man at Flemington last…
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In the Scone Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday last before a local Bench, Maxwell Eugene Laurence (26), a stranger,…
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Stipendiary Magistrate J. B. Hodgson was yesterday called upon in the local police court to decide whether…
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In the Licensing Court on Wednesday, John Hilton Flanders was granted a duplicate of a destroyed licence. The original licence, it was stated, was…
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Declaring that nearly all N.S.W. shires had war-caused legacies of disgraceful roads with which their meagre finances were unable to cope, Mr…
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The following cases were dealt with at Stroud Police Court on the 16th inst., before Mr E. J. Gibson, S.M.:— Police v. Joseph Home, of…
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In the Licensing Court an application for the transfer of the license of the Plough. Inn, Bullahdelah, from Mrs. Florence Jean Budd to Mrs…
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SYDNEY, Sat. — Seeing two men running along Campbell street, City, early to-day, two young policemen, Constables…
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