Remanded on Assault Charge
On the application of Sergeant Griffiths, Joseph Aisina Miret, known as Joseph Fraser, of Kanowna-avenue, East Cessnock was remanded until…
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Courts & crime, 1949
1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 62
Three Charged At Sessions
Charles Daniel Perry, 22, moulder, Stephen Raymond Flynn, 23, cranedriver, and Maurice Ligouri Toms, pleaded not guilty at…
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FRANKFURT, March 29.— The first war crimes trial by a German Court ended with a five-year prison sentence against Dr…
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The transfers of Constables R. H. Worboys, from Sydney to Gosford, and of E. Healy (Newcastle) to Cessnock, has cancelled the…
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LEXINGTON (Kentucky), March 29. — Forty-one-year-old, Mrs. Pearl Burrus has applied for the job of police chief of Evarts…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday. — About 1500 people broke through a police cordon last night to attack Communists conducting an open-air meeting in William-st., Rockhampton…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday—Although the case in which L. L. Sharkey has pleaded not guilty to charges alleging sedition did not resume in the Special Federal Court to-day until shortly before noon, small numbers of people began…
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The hearing began at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday afternoon of charges against John Joseph Halliman, 36, railway fettler,…
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SYDNEY. Wed. — Jocky J. Thompson will have the mount on the crack South Australian colt Comic Court, in the Three…
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HOLLYWOOD, March 31.— Actor Robert Mitchum and actress Llla Leeds were released from gaol yesterday after…
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The death sentence was passed on John Eugeue Hodgson, 19, .machinist, of Mattaville, after he had been convieted,of having raped an 18-year-old…
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Pleading "Guilty" to having at Stanford Merthyr on March 12 assaulted Melba Robertson, Herbert John Robertson, 58, military pensioner, was…
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Eileen Joyce Cosfello, 25, who pleaded "Not Guilty" in Central Crlminal court yesterday to a charge, of having no visible means of support,…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — By a majority decision the Full Bench of the Industrial Commission has ordered the appointment of Mr. T. Owen as stationmaster at Cessnock. South Maitland Railway…
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MELBOURNE, Friday—The executive of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has decided to ask the Arbitration Court to grant a basic wage of £10 a week. It has also reaffirmed a resolution condemning…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Acid Bath Murder Trial Opens Company Director Faces Murder Charge
LONDON April 2 — Evidence that sulphuric acid allegedly purchased by a 47-year-old company director, John George Haigh had a concentration of 95 per cent was given by Alfred Maisy at the trial yesterday at Haigh for…
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SYDNEY, Sat. — For the first time since 1923, Sydney detectives yesterday raided city sporting clubs. They swooped into City…
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John Graham Ruxton was remanded on £500 bail in Sydney Central Court to-day on a charge of having murdered…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—A young tram conductor, charged with murder, had been twice attacked by a gang of hooligans and was in fear of his life, a solicitor said in the Central Court to-day…
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Pleading guilty at Maitland court to-day to having behaved in an indecent manner on Saturday evening, Basil Douglas Kelhear, of…
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