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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 57 of 62

Vice-consul Tried by Communists People’s Court Orders Deportation of Staff

Maitland Mercury · Monday 28 November 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Chinese Communists at Mukden, Manchuria, yesterday released the American Vice-Consul, William Stokes, and ordered all non-Chinese members of the consulate staff to be deported…

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Electric Motor Theft Defendant Found Not Guilty at Moss Vale Court

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 November 1949 · page 4

Holding that there was insufficient evidence to link the appearance of a red Ford coupe with trailer attached, on the Werai…

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Magistrate’s Warning to Motor Cyclists

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 November 1949 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Tuesday — In fining Henry Whitworth £2 with 10/ costs at the Cessnock court to-day, for having ridden a motor…

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New Police Officer

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 November 1949 · page 1

Sgt. J. R. Harrison, of Queanbeyan, has been appointed officer In charge Of the Muswellbrook Police Force…

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"No Greater Social Nuisances Magistrate on Noisy Motor Cycles

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 29 November 1949 · page 3

There were no greater social nuisances than noisy motor cycles, the Magistrate (Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M.) said at Cessnock Court this morning…

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Two Men on Trial for Murder of Pensioner

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 November 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two men accused of having beaten and kicked to death a 78-years-old pensioner made statements from the dock at…

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Pensioner's Death. Two Men on Murder Charge. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 November 1949 · page 2

Two men, accused of having beaten and kicked to death a 78-years old pensioner, made statements from the dock at the Central Court today,…

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Dungog Police Court Remanded on Four Charges

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 2

At Dungog Court of Petty Sessions, on Monday, Charles Eddington, Jnr., was remanded until 15th December on four charges. F. H. Robinson…

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Theft Reported At Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 3

SINGLETON, Wed. — Detective-sergeant Woodward and other police officers are Investigating the reported theft on Sunday night , of…

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Murder Charge Crown Accepts Plea of Guilty

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 2

Legal history was made in the Central Criminal Court Sydney. to-day when the Crown accepted a plea of…

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Crown Accepts PIea Of Guilty to Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 November 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—Legal history was made in the Central Criminal Court to-day when the Crown accepted a plea at guilty to a charge of murder. Edward Richard Bolok, labourer, of Amherst-st, North…

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Former Detective Charged

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs. — A former detective, Arthur Meredith Cawood, 28, of Belmore, was fined a total of £16 and ordered…

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Not Guilty of Assault

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 1

SINGLETON, Thursday. — A jury in the Court of Sessions at Singleton to-day returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in…

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Court Refuses To Quash Old Verdict

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 December 1949 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Mr. Justice Fullagar refused in the Supreme Court to quash a 47-year-old coroner’s finding that a man had…

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18 Months' Gaol For Theft of 6 Dairy Motors

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 9

John Patrick Hoban (32), builder, of Baulkham Hills, was found guilty by the jury at Newcastle Sessions of six…

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Gaol for Three Wartime Conspirators

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—Final pleas for mercy in dramatic court room scenes yesterday failed to save 74-years-old ex-Congressman…

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Young Woman Charged with Shooting Brother

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 5

A 21-years-old woman was charged in Lithgow Court yesterday with having shot her brother, William Swann, 26, with intent to murder…

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Man Committed on Murder Charge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 5

Jack Molyneaux, 37, labourer, was committed for trial by the City Coroner (Mr. Rasche) on a charge of having murdered a 31-years-old woman at…

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Coalfields' People In Divorce Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 1

George Edward Stevens of Mulbring, was granted a decree nisi at the Newcastle Divorce Court yesterday when he petitioned for a divorce…

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"A Yankee in King Arthur's Court."

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 2 December 1949 · page 9

When you're enjoying the "miracle" of blotting out the sun, which Bing Crosby pulls in his new Paramount picture. "A Yankee in King Arthur's…

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