Killed His Friend Man Gets 12 Years' Gaol
Eugene John Cleary, 44, plumber, was sentenced by Mr Justice Clancy in the Central Criminal. Court, Sydney, to 12…
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Courts & crime, 1949
1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 62
Comic Court’s Mission
SYDNEY, Wed.—Local book makers are puzzled by reports from Adelaide that Comie Court will run in the Sydney Cub…
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MELBOURNE Wed. — A temporary injunction was granted in the High Court against the Minister for Immigration…
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LISMORE: Frederick Louis Bracks, 45, mercer, of Casino, was found guilty in the Quarter Sessions of three charges of having…
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SYDNEY. Thursday. — Trainer Jim Cummings said to-day that Comic Court was a possible runner in the Sydney Cup…
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Herbert John Robertson, 58, was committed for trial at Maitland Quarter Sessions on March 28 by Mr. F. R. Wood, S. M., at Kurri Court yesterday…
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The Court of Petty Sessions was held at the Court House on Wednesday last before Mr. J. B. Hodson, S.M…
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At the request of Scotland Yard, Melbourne detectives are now engaged on inquiries concerning the "acid bath" murders…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. — The State Full Court to-day upset Mr. Justice Barry’s decision last year that there had been a…
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Her husband frequently punched her, Elvie Mabel Thompson, formerly Davie, of Mount View-street, Cessnock, said at a sitting of the Newcastle…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—When asked to explain why a union official had been singled out for prosecution for giving out handbills in a Melbourne street, an officer of Melbourne City Council, Frank Deveney, collapsed in the…
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Resume of business conducted on Tuesday last before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M. : — Nyson Kenneth Gardiner, of…
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WASHINGTON, March 26.—“Axis Sally”—48-year-old Mildred Gillars—was yesterday sentenced to 10 to 30 years’ gaol for treason and fined 10,000 dollars. Her conviction automatically deprives her of American citizenship…
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SYDNEY, Saturday—Ten persons were arrested and goods wort[?] over £1500 were seized by detectives du[?]ng the night as…
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LONDON, March 26.—After sentencing the editor of the London “Daily Mirror,” Silvestre Bolam, to prison for three months and fining the newspaper proprietors £10,000 for contempt of court, Lord Chief Justice Goddard issued a…
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Russian sentries knocked down and kicked two British army corporals outside the Russianoccupied Hotel Imperial in…
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SYDNEY. Monday.—Late yesterday afternoon two men were Charged at Penrith with having illegally used a car. The charge…
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Miners on the northern coalfields today ignored the Communists' appeal for a complete stoppage as a protest against…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Leslie Frederick Parr (26), a shearer, was sentenced to nine years in gaol by Mr. Justice Clancy in…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday.—On the application of the police at Cessnock Court to-day, Joseph Alsima Miret, better known as…
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