Police Boys' Concert on August 31
A concert in aid of the Cessnock Police and Citizens' Boys' Club will be held in the Regent Theatre on Tuesday week…
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Courts & crime, 1948
1,099 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 55
Aberdeen Tennis Club New Court on Recreation Reserve
At the Shire Council meeting, permission was granted to the Aberdeen Tennis, Club to construct a tennis court, at their own expense,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aberdeen Business Before Shire Council Police Asked to Stop Speeding Motorists Gas for Town Under Consideration
The Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce and Progress Association had several matters dealt with at the last meeting of the Upper Hunter Shire Council. In a letter to the Council, the Chamber's Secretary,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rioting in Berlin. Western, German and Russian Police Clash. Mob Tears Down Communist Banner. Berlin
All police in the western sector of Berlin were mobilised yesterday after rioting had followed reports that four Germans had been killed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →High Court Ruling on Muswellbrook Case. Board Had No Power to Re-Instate Employee
By a three to two majority, the High Court on Monday ruled that the Central Coal Reference Board had no power to order the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many Road Deaths “Are Murder”
SYDNEY, Fri— Superintendent W. R. Lawrence, of the Police Traffic Branch, said that many road deaths were nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Inspector Congratulated
The deputy coroner for Maitland, Mr. E. C. Scarlett, who conducted an inquest at West Maitland courthouse yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Writ of Habeas Corpus Dismissed by U.s. Court
NEW YORK, August 21.—State Supreme Court Judge SamueL Dickstein yesterday dismissed the writ of habeas corpus directing the Soviet Consul-General in New York, Jacob Lomakin, to produce Mrs. Oksana Kosenkine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Not Allowed To Visit Gaol
BRISBANE, Monday. — Because he is a “convicted person,” the barrister, Hr. Max Julius, has been refused permission to visit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Three Men Charged With S.P. Betting
SINGLETON, Monday — Three men were arrested at Singleton on Saturday afternoon and charged with street betting- They were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Strangers on Vagrancy Charges One Pleaded Not Guilty. Missed Gaol
Two strangers appeared before Stipendiary Magistrate J. B. Hodgson in the local police court last Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eviction Proceedings Withdrawn Collapse of Court Application
After lengthy evidence had been taken from one of the applicants in an ejectment case in the local police court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grass Fire Danger. Police Warning
Muswellbrook police have issued a warning to town and district residents to guard against grass fires during the approaching…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fight to Save Life of Police Sergeant
Doctors fighting to save the life of Police Sergeant Henry Arthur McDonald, who was shot in the stomach on Tuesday morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Firemen's Pay Stolen £1300 Payroll Theft
Using a key a thief last night opened the steel safe at Fire Brigade Headquarters, Sydney and stole a payroll of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£1300 Pay Roll Theft
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Despite intensive Inquiries, police are still baffled by the theft of the £1300 pay roll from a safe of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sentenced to Death
LONDON, Aug. 37.—The British War Crimes Court sentenced to death by hanging a former SS Major Oskar Hans, who shot six…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheeler Fined £10 For Assault
Henry Edward Williams, 39, wheeler, was fined £10 at the Cessnock Court on Tuesday after he had been convicted on a charge of having unlawfully…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Spent 48 Hours in Gaol
SYDNEY, Friday.—Mr. Leslie Andrews, Ashfield funeral director, has served 48 hours’ imprisonment in Long Bay Gaol for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prisoner Dashed Out of Gaol
A man who was to have appeared in court to-day escaped from Newtown Police Station when he dashed past a…
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