Judge Permitted Tears in Court
Mr George Crockett, defence counsel for 11 American Communist officials on trial in New York, was given permission by…
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Courts & crime, 1949
1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 62
P.P.U. President Reports On Police
Mr R. C. Gibson, general president of the Primary Producers' Union, told delegates to a meeting of Lower Hunter and…
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NEW YORK, March 8.—Several motions to dismiss the indictment of conspiracy against 11 American Communist leaders and another motion for a 90 days’ adjournment of the trial were rejected by Judge Harold Medina yesterday…
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MANILA (Philippines): March 8.—Nine of ten absent Philippine Senators were “out” when police went to arrest them…
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LONDON, March 8.—Princess Margaret was mistaken by many children and their parents for a probation officer when she visited…
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Princess Margaret heard a 16year-old girl scream and swear as the girl was dragged away by a policeman after being committed…
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SYDNEY, Wed. —The graziers annual conference decided to-day to ask the Government to impose a minimum penalty of six…
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Captain Raymond Gifford, an Australian pilot, of Arcadia Street, Sydney,, received three gunshot wounds in the legs, at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Planes Searching For Flood Victims Three Missing in Far North-western District
Two men and a woman in a car have been missing for five days in the flooded, isolated, north-western corner of New South Wales. They are Mr. S. Scheild, station manager, his wife, and…
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At the Merriwa Police Court on Monday, James Henry Scott (50), laborer, was fined 10/- on a charge of drunkenness…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—At the Singleton court yesterday George Garland was ordered to enter into a bond of £20 to be of good…
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NEW YORK, March 11.—Arrested by the FBI on Friday night Judith Coplon, Department of Justice analyst, and Valetin…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—Sgt. C. M. Ryan, of Singleton Police Station, left yesterday to take up a new appointment at Junee. He…
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The organiser stated that the ground would be prepared for the court within a few weeks so as to be ready for the wire as…
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An application from Raymond Harrison, hotel licensee, to effect material alterations to the Hunter Hotel, Muswellbrook, was granted. A…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—Keith Philip Dagg, former licensee of the Albion Hotel, who was represented by Mr. T. F. Cragg,…
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NEW YORE, March 10.—Shots that caused a double murder and suicide in a lavish New York City apartment last night, in a fatal…
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In the initial stages of a fire in the police station grounds on Wednesday evening, flames leapt 30 and 40 feet into the air…
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Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., heard cases at the Court of Petty Sessions held on Wednesday last. Stanley Dodge was charged with…
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"I am treating you leniently because you have no previous convictions," said Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., to George Garland [?] the Singleton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday when ordering him to enter into a recognisance, self in £20 and one…
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