To-day’s Leader : Hope for Home Seekers. Heavy Guard at Court
SYDNEY, Wednesday. — A young man who has been charged with assaulting a young couple and robbing them in Prince…
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Courts & crime, 1949
1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 41 of 62
Youth Sentenced To Ten Years, Gaol For Armed Robbery; "Want on Cruelty" Says Judge
judge Holden yesterday sentenced a 20-years-old youth to 10 years hard labor for armed robbery. The judge said the robbery was one of the worst instances of "wanton cruelty" with which he had dealt…
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A policeman said in Central Court yesterday that he found partly filled bottles of wine, rum and methylated…
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BADEN, September 2.—Colonel Jan Jarczembaki, chief of the Polish military police to the French zone of Germany, has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Obituary Mrs. B. McCOURT
Mrs. B. McCourt, who died at McMahon’s Point, Sydney, at the the age of 87 years, was a daughter of the late James and Cicely…
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The district coroner (Mr. F. E. Wood), deputy coroner (Mr. V. R. Jenkins), members of the legal profession and the police force to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heddon Creta Man Has to Apologise to Wife Judge's Order in Divorce Court
When David Holmes, labourer, of (Heddon Greta, was granted an order for restitution of conjugal rights against his wife at the Divorce…
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JOHANNESBURG. Sept. 3.— South Africa has a gaol which hires out convicts at 1/9 a prisoner per day…
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First-class Sergeant E. S. Fair-lamb. of Muswellbrook police station, has been notified of his promotion to Acting Inspector…
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JOHANNESBURG. Sept. 3.—One African was shot dead and four policemen were injured when race rioting flared up in Johannesburg…
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SYDNEY, Sat.—Police seeking two men who deliberately set fire to a sedan car in Mooreheadstreet, Waterloo, early to-day…
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Maitland police during the weekend reached the tally of the unlucky 13 in arrests for drunkenness. The names of defendants were…
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John Richard Golledge, 48, [?] of 11 Taylor-street, Maitland, who pleaded guilty before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., in Maitland court…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Once Charged with Sedition Tasmanian Priest
Roman Catholic Archdeacon T. J. O'Donhell died in Hobart on Saturday night aged 72. Archdeacon O'Donnell had a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shire of Patrick Plains Revision Court
NOTICE is hereby given that a Revision Court to revise the Supplementary Lists of Electors for this Shire will be held in…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Chairman the Public Service Board (Mr. Worth) to-day began hearing of charges of negligence or…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A half-caste aborigine, Percy Warraweena, 23, a labourer, was sentenced to four years’…
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In a May Shoesmith, 22, home duties, was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment by Mr. G. Hook, SM, at Newcastle Court,…
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Detectives to-day charged a man with the murder of another Ukrainian who died at the migrant camp at Broadmeadow…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday. — Detectives to-day charged a Ukranian with the murder of another Ukranian, who died at the…
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