Theft of £100
SYDNEY—A suitcase and £100 in notes disappeared from the home of George Ronald Franch in Darby-st., Leichhardt, during…
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Courts & crime, 1949
1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 62
Police Officer Promoted
GLOUCESTER: Sergeant Laurence, of the local police, has been promoted to officer-in-charge at Taree. During his seven years…
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The contents of a suitcase which came into the possession of the police two years ago, will be amongst the articles to be sold a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Acid Bath" Murder Trial in Mid-may
The British Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross,, will conduct the case for the Crown when John George Haigh is tried…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Despatch Forms to Farmers
Singleton police have despatched all the agricultural and pastoral forms to district landholders for the year's annual…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle In Custodian Resisted Police Charge. Fined for Offence Magistrate Convicts Dependant
The Magistrate (Mr. F. R. Wood), in a reserved decision at Cessnock Court this morning, concicted Alphonsus William Cagney, 32 labourer, and…
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Walter Harvey Reynolds. (24), railway worker, appeared before a local Bench at Scone Court of Petty Sessions on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Boys’ Club Art Union Draw
Maitland Police Boys’ Club art union, which was conducted by a special committee, after It had been handed over by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Claims Unionists Would Laugh At “Play The Game” McPhillips Denies Contempt of Court
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The assistant secretary of Federated IronworkersAssociation, Leslie John McPhillips, told the Full Bench of the Arbitration Court that had used the term “playing the game” to a meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strike Against Court’s Decision Futile— Senator McKENNA
SYDNEY, Thursday.—They has not been an immediate response to the call for a general strike of 15,000 ironworkers, in Sydney, but officials of the Federated Ironworkers’ union expect a prolonged general stoppage of the union’s 40,000 members throughout Australia within a couple of days…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—Thomas Reld, Who had been out of Maitland gaol for only 10 days, was sentenced to a further three months’…
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"This offence is very prevalent at present," said the Police Prosecutor at Singleton Court yesterday after Austin J. Lowe…
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In a majority ruling, the Full Arbitration Court sentenced Leslie John McPhillips to a month's gaol at Long Bay for contempt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Stealing Charge Adjourned Case Part Heard
After hearing portion of the evi-dence for the prosecution in the case at the Cessnock Court in which Alphonsus William Cagney, 32, labourer, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder and Suicide Verdict Double Tragedy at Weston
A bloodstained piece of steel shafting, 15 inches long and and one inch thick, wrapped in brown paper, and a containing cyanide were grim exhibits at an inquest it young Weston businessman and his wife; conducted by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£10 Basic Wage Hearing Court Fixes May 17
The Full Arbitration Court on Wednesday fixed May 17 for the hearing of a claim by a number of trade unions for a basic wage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Former Publican Before Industrial Court Seven Cases Adjourned
A former Singleton publican, Mr. K. P. Dagg, who until recently was proprietor of the Albion Hotel, appeared before…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Smart Work by Police Sergeant. Memory of Photo Leads to Man's Arrest
On Friday last word was received from Boggabri police that the store of Mrs. I. L. A. McHugh, at Baan Baa, was broken and entered. On…
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OTTWA, April 9. — Forty-three-year-old Sam Carr, alleged leader of a Soviet war-time spy-ring in Canada, was yesterday sentenced to six years imprisonment after his conviction on a-charge of conspiring to utter a forged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →First Day of Month’s Gaol
SYDNEY, Saturday.—By 10 a.m. to-day Mr. L. J. McPhillips, assistant national secretary of the Federated ironworkers’…
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