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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

1,099 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 29 of 55

Muswellbrook Police Court. Wednesday's Cases

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 4

Before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., at the Muswellbrook Police Court on Wednesday last, the police proceeded against George Clarence Gilligan,…

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Baby Boy Murder. Police Inquiries. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 1

Police investigating the murder of the newly-born baby, found ab[?]doned at Ilerne Bay on Monday, have directed their inquiries to several…

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Released From Gaol

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday.—A men sentenced fenced to death in 1945 for wounding With Intent to murder Dr. Reginald Stuart James was released on…

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Two Chinese “Sentenced to Death”

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 5

SINGAPORE July 23—At [?] yesterday the first death sentences under the new emergency regulations water imposed on two Chinese…

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Charge of Murder

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. —A well-known Macquarie-street doctor and a young man, who desc[?] himself as a student of…

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Police Hunt On in Country

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 4

Police investigating the murder of the newly-born haby found abandoned at Herat Bay on Monday have…

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Lax Control of Lodge Accounts Judge's Warning To Other Unions. Lodge Official Sentenced

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 1

Judge Curlewis, in sentencing Joseph Florence Moylan to six months' imprisonment for embezzling £768/13/8, the property of the N.S. Wales Coal and Shale Mineworkers Union this week at Maitland Quarter Sessions, said he hoped the lax control…

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Jurisdiction of Court Challenged [?] V. Ritter Case Adjourned

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 5

Mr. C. R. Whitfield, who appeared for Blanche Aileen Alexander Ritter in an action brought against her in the…

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Exciting Chase by Police Man Arrested After Roof-top Pursuit

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 July 1948 · page 4

After a chase across the roof tops of city shops, in which two policemen were injured, a man was cornered in…

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Man Gives Himself Up To Police

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 24 July 1948 · page 1

LAKE SUCCESS, July 24.— Police disclosed yesterday that a former Air Force sergeant, Stephen J. Sup[?]na, who allegedly…

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Two Changes Of Cattle Stealing

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 2

Daniel William Edwards, 46, horse breaker, was remanded till August 13 when he appeared at West Maitland court to-day on three charges…

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Wan Charged with Street Betting

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 3

Singleton police on Saturday arrested a man who is a comparative stranger to Singleton and charged him with street…

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Charges with Murder of Baby at Herne Bay

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.— Charles William Mason (28), boot clicker, who was charged with having murdered an unnamed baby at Heme Bay on July 19, was remanded at the Central Court to-day until August 3. Mason, a short, dark…

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Police Beat Off Attack By Terrorists

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 3

SINGAPORE, July 26 (AAP-Reuter). — The police at Kahang, midway between Kuland and Mersing, in Johare, this morning beet off a terrorist dawn attack against a police station…

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Soviet Secret Police in Australia Reports Being Investigated

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Reports that members of the N.K.V.O. — Soviet secret police—had entered Australia under the guises of displaced persons are being investigated by the Commonwealth Special Investigation Branch…

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Husband and Wife Before Murder Charge Husband and Wife Before Separate Courts

Singleton Argus · Monday 26 July 1948 · page 2

Charles William Mason, 28. boot dicker, charged with having murdered an unnamed baby at Herne Bay on July…

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Latest Police Transfers in North-east

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 1

Police transfers just notified in the North-eastern Division include: Sergeants R. H. Kidd, West Maitland to West Kempsey; F…

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Murder of Foreigners in Egypt

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 1

LONDON, July 23.—Anti-Jewish feeling In Egypt Is spreading Into general xenophobia, and reports from there indicate that murders…

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Administration of Berlin Police Force

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 1

BERLIN, July 5 A new [?] has developed in Berlin with the decision of the three western commentators to…

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Police Transfers Sgt. Mason to Newcastle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 2

Among the transfers notified in the North-Eastern Division are Sgt. R. P. Mason from Dungog to Newcastle and Constable A. B. Cameron from…

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