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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 62

Two Strangers Before Court

Singleton Argus · Monday 17 January 1949 · page 2

Two strangers to the town, Frank Frost (aged 54) and Laurence Pincham (50) appeared before Mr. B. A. Wood. C.P.S., in…

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Scone Police Court Drunken Driving Case Magistrate Lenient

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 1

Before Mr. J. B. Hodgson at the Scone Court last Wednesday, a wool traveller pleaded guilty to driving a car whilst under the…

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R.C. Teachers Go on Strike Police Called Out

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 1

MONTREAL, Jan. 18.—Fifteen hundred Roman Catholic lay school teachers .employed by the Montreal Catholic School…

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Undefended Divorce Cases District Court He Hearings Granted

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 1

Following a request by Cessnock Municipal Council, the Attorney-General has advised that Cabinet has approved of a dart amendment to the…

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400 Police Stand By At Trial Of U.S. Communists Counsel Protests Against ‘Armed Camp’ Atmosphere

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Four hundred police stood by to preserve order when the trial of 12 American Communist party leaders began yesterday. They are being tried on charges of working for the…

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White Bros. Will Be Prosecuted for Rabbits P.P. Board Holds "Court" In Committee

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 2

Denman-Singleton Pastures Protection Board decided to prosecute White Bros., of Edinglassie, for…

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Boy on Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed. — A 16-year-old boy will appear before the children’s court on January 27 charged with the murder of a…

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Herald Reporter Charged Under Crimes Act Divulged Secret Information

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 1

John Harold William Farland, a member of the "Herald" reporting staff, has been summonsed under the Crimes…

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Big Police Guard to Stay Trial of 12 Communists Opens

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 January 1949 · page 1

Further attempts by the defence counsel to secure removal of the big police guard at the New York trial of 12…

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Murder Clues Point To A Russian

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 5

VIENNA, Jan. 30 — British and Austrian police investigating the murder of a young Austrian on Tuesday night picked up a Soviet…

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Police Fire on Students

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1949 · page 1

CALCUTTA, Jan. 20.—Eight persons were killed and 40 injured when police opened fire on students yesterday…

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Government Departments Cause Inconvenience at Scone Court House Legal Profession Complains to Magistrate

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 7

AT THE LAST SITTING OF SCONE COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS, A COMPLAINT WAS MADE TO MR. J. B. HODGSON, S.M., THAT THE POLICE AND LEGAL PROFESSION WERE…

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Damages Against Police

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 5

LONDON, January 21.—A land lord whose house was overrun and damaged by spectators watching the Moscow Dynamos football match…

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Waitress Charged Baby From Hospital Abducted 6-Days' Old

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 4

Joan Charmain Frost (21), waitress, appeared in Central Court to-day charged with having abducted a six-days'…

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Alleged Attempt To Wreck Train Man Charged At Kempsey

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 2

Following months of investigation by Detective R. V.Norton assisted by other Police and rail way officials a young man…

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Police Searching For Stock Agent

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. — Thomas William Grieg, 32 stock and station agent, of Braidwood, has been missing for. ten days. He…

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Late Australian & Global News Waitress Charged for Abducting Six-day Old Baby Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 2

Joan Charmain Frost (21), waitress, appeared in the Central Police Court this morning, charged with having abducted a six-day old baby from the Crown Street Women's Hospital on Wednesday night…

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Woman Gets Local Hotel License Tquity Court Finding Referred to

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 5

Reference to a N.S.W. Supreme Court Equity finding was made at the Singleton licensing court yesterday,…

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Inquest into Highway Tragedy Ends Coroner Finds Deaths of Mr. Garner, Hiss Lowe Accidental Police of Opinion Wind Turned Car Over

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 3

The inquest into the deaths of Richard Bourne Garner (82), retired Presbyterian Minister, and Patricia Howell Lowe (32), qualified nursing sister, was concluded yesterday afternoon by Coroner for the State (Mr. J. Hodgson, S.M.)…

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More Police Needed for Road Traffic

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 22 January 1949 · page 2

Declaring that there Is a needless sacrifice of lives through road accidents, the genera secretary of the N.R.M.A. (Mr. H. E. Richards)…

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