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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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SYDNEY, Monday.—There was a surprise development in the Arbitration Court proceedings to-day when Mr. E. J. Hooke, counsel for the Commonwealth, asked for an order to compel the central committee of the Communist Party…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday. — In the Quarter Sessions to-day, Judge Holden said indecent assaults on little girls might be just as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sussex, Monday "John Haigh, 39-year-old company director, who murdered five women and four men, drank their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Robert Stapleton, of Cumberland-street, Cessnock, was reminded until 2 at Cessnock Court this morning [?] charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CESSNOCK, Tuesday. — The case in which Robert Vickers, of Cessnock, was charged with having assaulted James Reuben…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Twice the number of men now in the force would be required to maintain [?] and order if brownout restrictions continued, a Sydney police…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When he did not appear at Cessnock Court yesterday to answer a charge of having unlawfully assaulted James Reuben Baumgarten, of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two men, who were suffering the pangs of [?] caused by beer shortage and who were not sufficiently financial to pay the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Have you lost a bicycle recently? If so, you may be lucky enough to get it back if you go along to the Cessnock Police Station…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The town of Groveland, in Florida, experienced a night of horror on Saturday. It began when a young wife…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LEWES (Sussex), July 19 (A.A.P.). — John George Haigh murdered four men end fire women, drank their blood and dissolved their bodies in acid. Leading defence counsel, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe said…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →James Albert Griffen, 32, miner of Greta-street, Aberdare, pleaded "Gulfty" at Cessnock Court this morning to a charge of having at Aberdare on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sergeant C. K. Kennedy, who has received notification of his promotion to commissioned rank, was congratulated by the Magistrate und members…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →John George Haigh, the 39 year old company director, who murdered five women and four men, drank their blood and dissolved their bodies in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE, Wed.—A 49-year-old contractor, Denis Woodbury, was to-day charged with the murder of his wife at their home at Benalla…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, July 20.—John George Haigh, 39, was found guilty at Lewes Assizes yesterd ay of the murder of Mrs. Olivia Durand-Deacon and wets sentenced to death. Asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, July 20.—At Fayid, In [?] Suez Canal zone, a courtmartial convicted nine British soldiers of having inflicted grievous bodily harm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CALCUTTA, July 20.— Several hundred armed Communists hacked a police chief to death after women had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.— The High Court may sit at 10.30 a.m. to-morrow to decide whether a single Judge of the Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Before the high Court of Australia, Mr. S. Isaacs (for the Waterside Workers’ Federation) is challenging the power of Mr. Justice Foster, of the Arbitration Court, to impose penalties for contempt of court…
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