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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 47 of 62

Mill Hand on Stealing Charges

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 3

Jack Seidman, 30, mill band, of 56 Bulwer-street, Maitland, appeared in Maitland Court to-day, before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., on…

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Inspector of Police Farewelled

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 2

Before commencement of [?] ings in Maitland court to-day, [?]ence was made to the impen[?] departure on Inspector S. J. Ste[?]…

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Police Stop Appeal By Communists

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 1

LONDON, October 3.— Several thousand demonstrators chanting peace slogans marched through the West End to the…

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Police Confident of Arrest For Kidnapping

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.— Detectives are confident of making anearly arrest of the man who kidnapped the 70-years-old Jew,…

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Gaoled for Assault on Policeman

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—convicted at the Campsie court to-day of having assaulted a policeman outside a Belmore hotel yesterday, Cecil…

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Admitted Rape Allegation False Woman May Be Charged

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 3

There is a possibility that a public mischief charge will be preferred against a 32 year old married woman, who said on Thursday night she had…

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Police Investigations on Kidnapping

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 2

MELBOURNE Tuesday.—Police Investigating the mysterious kidnapping of Solomon Raydell, 60-year-old businessman, are…

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Police Searching For Foreigners

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tuesday—Police engaged on the Ravdell Kidnapping case are searching to-day for four men, two of whom are…

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Husband Was Communist Wife's Reason for Murder

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 3

A French Court has sentenced to death a widow of Metz (north east France) who confessed that she had poisoned her husband because he was…

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Police Searching for Four Men Melbourne

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 1

Police engaged on the Ravdell kidnapping case arc searching to-day for four men, two of whom are foreigners, and a foreign…

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Bridge Pylon Burglary

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—Thieves last night broke into the Harbour Bridge pylon look-out, blew open the safe and stole a camera and…

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Two on Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 4

LITHGOW, Wed.—Frank Edward Whye, 39, an aboriginal of Brewarrina, and John McCann, 27, of Marrangaroo, were…

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Police at Labour Meeting

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The appearance of about 20 plainclothes police dissuaded Leftwing rebels who were pureed…

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Judge Criticises Court Building

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—The Attorney-General, Mr. Martin, has granted a request from judge Berne for leave of absence on account of…

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Police Seek Identification of Man’s Body

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—The police are faced with a problem in Identifying the body of a well-dressed man of about 65 found…

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Short Price Offered for Cup Favourites Comic Court Dominates Odds In Caulfield Cup

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 October 1949 · page 7

Prices for the favourite double in the Coalfield and Melbourne Cup market are the shortest since 1930, when Amounts and Phar Lap took £250,000 from the ring. Comic Court and Vagabond are slightly longer than…

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Ten Years' Gaol For Tokio Rose

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 4

In San Francisco today Iva Toguri Daquino—Tokio Rose— was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and fined 10,000…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle FRIDAY, 7th OCTOBER, 1949. Inspector Fairlamb Farewelled Tributes From Bench, Legal, Profession, Court House Staff, Police and Press

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 3

The esteem in which Police Inspector E. S. Fairlamb is held in the community was shown in a strilang manner at the Police…

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Sharkey’s Conviction Upheld By High Court

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday. — The Full High Court to-day confirmed the conviction of Laurence Louis Sharkey, general…

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"Will Abide by Court" Chifley on Banks CANBERRA

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 6

The Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, told the Federal Executive of the A.L.P. today that, although the Labor…

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