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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 62

Police Prevent Photographs Of Princess

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 May 1949 · page 2

ROME, May 18. — Italian police put their hands over the lenses of photographers’ cameras when Princess Margaret left her Florence…

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Charged With Sheep Stealing

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 6

WAGGA WAGGA, Tuesday.— Thomas Edmond Keith Ryan, 53, stock inspector for 30 years, was charged at Wagga Wagga police…

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Assault at Homeville

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 2

Leslie James Simmons, of Hillsborough. was charged at Maitland court with having on February 9, at Homeville, assaulted Catherine…

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Charged with Serious Offences

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: A man charged with indecent assault against a five-year-old girl and two other serious offences was remanded in…

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Five Years’ Gaol for Fraud

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Clyde Ham, 38, a car dealer, of York-road, Waverley, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by Judge Redshaw in…

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Five Years' Gaol Car Frauds Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 1

"This is the red light to mend your ways or get out of New South Wales," said Judge Redshaw, when Ian…

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Police Raid at Dog Trials

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1949 · page 3

Six police of Newcastle Vice Squad, in charge of First-class Sergeant Fordham, last night raided the greyhound trials at…

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P.p.b. Man Charged —O— Sheep Theft Alleged

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 18 May 1949 · page 2

Thomas Edmond Keith Ryan, 58, who has been a stock inspector for 30 years, was charged in Wagga Court on Monday with sheep stealing…

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Wage Claims: Court Demanding Union Confidence In Arbitration

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 18 May 1949 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Although the employers’ attempt to have the basic wage case postponed was unsuccessful, the Full Arbitration Court has demanded that all union concerned should give assurances of their confidence…

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Declaratin of Faith Asked of Unions First Arbitration Court Sitting in £10 a Week Basic Wage Case

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 May 1949 · page 1

The Full Arbitration Court yesterday directed the A.C.T.U. to get from all unions concerned in the basic wage case formal statements of their confidence in arbitration as the proper means of settling…

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Police Court Cases

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 3

At the Police Court on Wednesday, William James Joseph Cronin was fined £1 and 10/- costs on a charge of indecent behaviour…

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Gaol On Vagrancy Charges

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 5

SINGLETON, Friday. — Rodney Francis Thorley and Charles Thorley, brothers, of 16 Macquarie-street, Singleton, were each sentenced to…

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Charged with Serious Offences

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 3

A man charged with indecent assault against a 5-year-old girl and two other serious offences, was remanded in the Parramatta…

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Alderman's complaint On Motor-Cycles Referred to Police

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 1

After Aid. Baillie had complained of the speed at which motor-cyclists travelled" along No[?]thcote and Cumberland Streets, and Aberdare Road…

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Singleton Brothers Gaoled Sordid Story in Court

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 3

After hearing of the sordid circumstances under which Charley Thorley and Rodney Francis Thorley, brothers, of…

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Ten Policemen Charged

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Saturday — After an eight-months’ departmental investigation into the disappearance of £2440 from a safe at Liverpool…

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Perjury Mentioned by Magistrate

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1949 · page 2

When evidence had concluded on a charge of negligent driving at Maitland court yesterday, Mr. F. R. Wood, SM, said if a…

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Fight for Key Berlin Railway Station Now Under Control of Western Sector Police

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 May 1949 · page 2

British controlled German police last night marched into Berlin's big Charlottenburg station, cleared out the…

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Ex-apprentice Jockey Charged Stealing Iron Fencing Posts

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 1

Said to have been a promising apprentice jockey, a man was charged at the Scone Court yesterday With having stolen a…

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Remanded On Stealing Charges

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 3

SINGLETON, Tuesday—Joseph Foote, 23, of Lower Belford, -appeared at Singleton court this morning on two stealing charges…

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