Communist Loses Appeal High Court Upholds Conviction. Melbourne
The Full High Court to-day confirmed the conviction of Laurence Louis Sharkey, general secretary of the Australian Communist Party, on a…
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Courts & crime, 1949
1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 48 of 62
To-day's World News Labor Member Calls for Longer Working Week—"tokio Rose" Sentenced to 10 Years—purge in Prague. (A.a.p, Messages)
Quoting sources close to Cabinet, Reuter says the British Government will take "official notice" of a speech by Mr. Jack Jones, Parliamentary…
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MELBOURNE, Friday. — The Full High Court to-day declared invalid a section of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Act which requires doctors to write prescriptions on Government forms…
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Donald McKellar Clarke, ex chief clerk, operations division of the Singleton branch of the Joint Coal Board, was committed for trial yesterday at the local police court on nine charges of larceny as…
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Edward Douglas Gorringe, 25, a fattier, of Railway Fettlers’ Camp, Paterson, wag to-day sentenced by Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M.,…
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Solicitor. It had been examined by the Attorney-General, Mr. C. E. Martin. Detective-Sergeant F. Lynch…
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The Acting Prices Commissioner, Mr C. J. Bellemore, said to-day that investigations are proceeding into allegations of…
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Police Inspector E. S. Fairlamb, who to-day took up police duties in the Maitland sub-district, vice-inspector S. J. Stewart, [?]…
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VATICAN CITY, October 10.— The Vatican radio says that Czechoslovak police have completely surrounded the small…
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LONDON', Oct. 10 (AAP).— Most British prison officers and police officials favour the retention of capital punishment, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Charge Dismissed on Technical Point
A technical point taken by Mr. W. A. Enright was today responsible for the throwing-out of a charge of driving under the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Comic Court Dominates Caulfield Cup Acceptances To Be Declared To-morrow
Acceptances for the Caulfield Cup will be declared to[?]orrow and it is anticipated there will be about 30 starters. [?]here is no likelihood of a ballot, and if Comic Court draws [?] inside barrier position he will start one of the hottest…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—James Price, 38 a chemist, who was alleged to have taken off his trousers in the A.W.A. building yesterday when he…
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Bennie Belbart (29) was retained at the City Court today until October 31 on five charges relating to the kidnapping…
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LITHGOW, Wed.—Pleas of not guilty were made by five men the Lithgow court to-day to charges of having stolen building…
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LONDON October 12 (AAP)— [?] Britain Communist members of Parliament has been served with a will by chief…
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ADELAIDE, Wed. - Another colt foal has been born to Witty Maid and he is by Powers court. The combination has already…
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Mr. P. C. Spender, M.P. addressing a public meeting in Sydney said that if the Chifley Government was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Inspector Was A Good Friend To Muswellbrook
MUSWELLBROOK, Wed.—Before leaving Muswellbrook to take up duties at Maitland, Police Inspector E.S. Falrlamb was honoured at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Degrees Of Murder a Difficult Subject Who Would Take the Responsibility of Defining Them in Law?
An opinion was expressed by British prison officers and police officials and presented a few days ago to a Royal Commission at present enquiring into capital punishment in Britain…
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