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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 50 of 62

Magistrate’s Warning To Miners

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 3

For taking tobacco and accessories, also matches, underground in Kent Colliery on September 28, Lawrence Elkin, miner, of…

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Three Years’ Gaol for Red Leader

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — Laurence L[?] Sharkey, 51, general secretary of the Australian Communist Party, was to-day sent to gaol for three years for having uttered seditious words…

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Sharkey Sentenced To Three Years Communist Secretary Uttered Seditious Words

Singleton Argus · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 2

Laurence Louis Sharkey, 51, General Secretary of the Australian Communist Party, was today sent to gaol for three years for having uttered seditious words…

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Police Organise on International Basis

Maitland Mercury · Monday 17 October 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Oct. 17 (AAP).— Pictures of a wanted criminal can now go by radio from Paris to Australia in less than six…

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Another Sewing Machine Theft

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 3

The second sewing machine to be stolen within five days from a Maitland public school was taken from Burglars school between 6…

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Two Men Charged with Doping

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two men were arrested yesterday and charged with having conspired to commit an unlawful act by…

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Sharkey Sentenced To Three Years Communists Consider Appeal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 3

An appeal against the Severity of the three year sentence imposed yesterday on General Secretary of the Party, Laurence Louis Sharkey, 51,…

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Neath Man on Two Charges Cessnock Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 3

Ronald A. Morgan, of Northumberland-street, Neath, was fined on each of two traffic charges at Cessnock Court this morning…

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Miners Strike in Protest on Gaol Sentence

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. — Two mines were partly idle and a third was idle on the Sharkey issue to-day for the loss of 900 tons of coal…

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German Woman Tells of Revenge Murder

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Oct. 19 (AAP).— Iise Hirsch, 26, a former leader in the Nazi Girls’ League, told a [?]man court at Aachen that…

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Prints May Lead to Murder Charge

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 3

Detectives investigating the death of Claude William Wood, 37, of Coonamble, who died from strychnine poisoning on September 30, how believe he was murdered…

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Police Say Man’s Death Was Outcome Of Plot

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 October 1949 · page 1

COONAMBLE, Wed. — Detectives investigating the death of Claude William Woods, 37, who died of strychnine poisoning on…

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Magistrate Called Man A Hoodlum

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 5

KURRI KURRI, Thurs. —“Your actions are those of a larrikin and a hoodlum” said Mr. F. ft. Wood, S.M, to Claude W. Thompson. 27…

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Magistrate’s Warning To Motor Cyclist

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 1

KURRI KURRI, Thurs—Maurice LB Massey, of Aberdare-road, Cessnock, and Kenneth A. Peters,, of Aramac-avenue, Cessnock, pleaded…

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Court Cases at Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 5

KURRI KURRI, Thurs. — For having behaved in an indecent manner in Pathurst-street, Abermain, on October 8. Laurence…

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Police Get Clues in Two Poison

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.— Virtual c[?] have been found by detectives investigating the death of a man at C[?] and the illness of…

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Barman Sentenced To Seven Years

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday—Henry Mullens. 23. a barman, was sentenced to seven years’ gaol by Judge Holt in the Quarter sessions to-day for…

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Noisy Motorcycles Warning by Magistrate

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 8

A warning that motor-cyclists who removed battle plates from the exhausts on their machines would lose their licenses was given by the…

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To Stand Trial On Breaking, Stealing Charges

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 2

SINGLETON, Fridays-Lionel James Mutch, 19, of Goulburn, who appeared before Singleton police court yesterday, was…

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Man Committed on Murder Charge Death of Woman in Manly Flat

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 10

On a charge of having murdered Mr. Constance Margaret McGulre, 32, at Manly on September 12, Rex Lie[?] Flanagan, 33, was committed…

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