Police Claim Motors Thefts Well Organised Man Committed For Trial After Court Hearing At Dungog
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 1
Specialist police said to-day that theft of efectric motors [?] an area extending from Muswellbrook in the north to Moss Vale in the south had been well organised. The thefts had been going on for a considerable time…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stealing Charge
The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 4
Same v. Stewart Raymond Farr, for stealing £1/11/7 the property of the Postmaster General's Department…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scone Court of Petty Sessions Cases of District Interest Carrier Charged with Drunken Driving and Negligence Medico's Examination Conflicts With Police Evidence
The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 4
As the result of a motor truck colliding with a telephone post on the northern boundary of Scone before midnight on 22nd September, the driver of the truck in question appeared before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Halt” Signs Must Be Obeyed Says Magistrate
Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 4
Halt Signs Must Be Obeyed “The word ‘halt’ has only one meaning; it does not mean slow down,” Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Comic Court Short Odds
Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 5
MELBOURNE, Friday.—Comic Court is likely to start in the Caulfield Cup to-morrow at a record short price provided the weather…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Kempsey Flood Medals for Police Suggested
Singleton Argus · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 8
Mr. Vincent (C.P., Raleigh) suggested in the Legislative Assembly a special medal should be struck for policemen who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Inspector Was A Good Friend To Muswellbrook
The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 5
Before leaving Muswellbrook to take up duties at Maitland, Police Inspector E. S. Fairlamb was honored at several farewell…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Church Trials Should Be Referred to World Court
Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 1
LAKES SUCCESS, October 14. (AP)—By 41 votes to five, and with nine abstentions, the UNO special political committee has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Decree Nisi for Cessnock Woman Sydney Divorce Court
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 7
Evelyn Janet Olsen, of Church-street, Cessnock, was granted a decree nisi at the Sydney Divorce Court yesterday. when she petitioned for a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Scone Publican Before Court Two Charges By Prices Branch
The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 1
Before Mr. J. B. Hodgson. S.M., at the Scone Police Court, on Wednesday last, Bertram Cecil Price, publican, and licensee…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comic Court Should Win Cup Lincoln and Dickens Tote Bets
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 8
The big race in Melbourne to-morrow is the Caulfield Cup, for which Comic Court is a short priced favourite…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wife Joined communist Party Local Man's Evidence in Divorce Court
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 7
His wife joined the Communist Party in 1940 and after that date she was frequently out of the home and informed him she was attending…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Comic Court Is Ideal Cup Horse Possesses Brilliance and Ability To Stay
Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 6
The battle for the early lead in the Caulfield Cup should see Beau Gem in the vanguard when the field settles down, and the favourite, Comic Court, will be able to fellow close in behind. Outside horses will rush across to the rails…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gaol for Stealing Truck
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 2
Edward Douglas Gorringe, 20, a fettlers' of Railway Fettlers' Camp, Paterson, was on Monday sentenced by Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., to five…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assault on Sleeping Girl
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Saturday.—Sixteen-years-old Helen Owen was brutally bashed In her parents’ home at Auburn by a night prowler as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Strychnine Death Puzzles Police
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sat.—F[?]lice investigating the death of a Coonamble shearer are puzzled by the fact that no trace of strychnine has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Theft of Motors in Dungog District Man Committed for Trial
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 3
At Dungog Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. S. G. Pocock, S.M., John Patrick Hoban, 32, carpenter, was committed for trial at the next Quarter Sessions in Maitland on the 24th October…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five Lawyers Sent to Prison Counsel In Big Trial Arrested For Contempt of Court
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 1
NEW YORK, Oct. 15 (A.A.P.).—All 11 Communists charged in the Federal Court with conspiracy to teach the forcible overthrow of the United States Government have been found guilty. They will be sentenced on Friday next…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Collapsed When Charged With Murder
Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 1
BRISBANE, Monday.—Reuben Thomas Wallace, 63, is seriously ill in Brisbane General Hospital under police guard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Maitland Police Court
Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 3
Two men who used indecent language on Maitland railway station on Saturday last had ball of £5 forfeited when they…
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