Motor Cyclists Before Court
Asking a young man his age, and receiving the reply that he was 18, Mr. E. I. Cocks, stipendiary magistrate, said in Maitland court to-day…
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Courts & crime, 1950
1,085 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 55
Police Believe Man May Have Been Murdered
SYDNEY, Monday.—A man whose body was found floating in the water near Glebe, Island wharf may have been murdered…
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CESSNOCK, Tuesday. — Thomas Hutchinson, of Aberdare, was charged at Cessnock court this morning with baring assaulted and caused…
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Straying stock on the roads was a menace and he did not regard the offence as a trivial one, the Magistrate (Mr. E. Cocks, S.M.)…
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Dungog will have an additional police officer before long. Lack of suitable accommodation for another man has held up the…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—A far-reaching programme c. legislation will be outlined by the Governor-General (Mr. McKell)…
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LONDON, Feb. 22 (A.A.P).—A Hungarian court Imposed heavy gaol sentences on a Briton and an American found guilty of spying and…
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 (AAP). —A Federal Court judge signed an order directing the United Mine Workers’ Union to answer…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.—Tennis star, Adrian Quist (36), was to-day ordered to return to his wife, a Sydney heiress, within 21 days…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—A man charged in the city court to-day with murdering his mother asked Mr. McLean, S.M., for permission to…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Premier, Mr. McGirr, stated to-day that allegations of corruption against “a member of the…
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At the Police Court on Wednesday, Lila Starr proceeded against Reginald Baker on a charge of assault. Mr. S. C. White appeared for the informant, and…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—George Dalton Pereira, 24, machinist, a native of Ceylon, was sentenced to two years’ gaol in Central Court…
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Alfred Henry Koeth, aged 21, who was serving a sentence of three months’ [?] labour tor false pretences escaped from East Maitland…
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MELBOURNE, Friday.—Oscar Skyers, 61, a Jamaican sailor, was to-day sentenced to eight years’ gaol for the murder of…
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Two carriers were each fined £20 and ordered to pay £1 witnesses expenses and £6/12/ compensation after they had pleaded "Guilty" to…
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KURRI KURRI, Friday.—At Kurri court Abraham Smith, 24, a road layer, of Main-road, East Greta, and William Mitchell Hopper, 28, miner,…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—In the Licensing Court at Singleton, Mr. J. B. Hodgson, SM, granted David Hartley Beisley permission to…
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Walter Lambert, of Glenridding, was dismissed under section 566 a of the Crimes Act, on a charge of failing to destroy…
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BERNE, Feb. 24.— “Gerber 47, aircraft mechanic, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of having sold important military…
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