Home For Sale; Owner Going To Gaol For Year
HOLLYWOOD, April 25.—Film writer Ring Lardner, junr., today advertised his 10-roomed beach home for sale under the heading,…
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Courts & crime, 1950
1,085 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 55
Assault on Publican
Two men arrested late yesterday and charged with assault and with maliciously damaging property were remanded by Mr. F…
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Imposing a fine of £2/3/ and ordering a defendant to pay 7/ court costs, Mr. F. B. Wood, S.M., said in Maitland court to-day that the…
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After being locked up for six hours, the jury in the Melbourne "Beach Murder" trial failed to agree on a verdict…
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CHICAGO, April 26.—William Murphy, a 62-year-old policeman, who had just gone off duty, was killed by four bandits who were…
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Mr. G. G. Noble, former police inspector, was farewelled by Newcastle police yesterday afternoon on the eve of his…
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NAIROBI, April 26.— Three hundred Suk tribesmen, armed with spears, yesterday killed three British and one native…
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CESSNOCK. Wed. — Judge O’Sullivan, presiding for the first time at the Cessnock District Court, was welcomed this…
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Two one-legged men were before Maitland police court this morning, and on two charges they were each fined £6…
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LONDON, April 27.—Four Manchester constables, two of them women have been sacked for alleged gossiping while on duly late at night…
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NEWCASTLE: Judge O'Sullivan last week imposed the maximum penalty of 14 years upon three Maitland men found guilty of assault and robbery. The men were John Vile…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Six Charges of Cattle Stealing Man Pleads Guilty at Singleton Court
John Whitfield Dunstan, 19 of "Westwood," Singleton, was last week committed for trial by Mr. Hodgson, S.M…
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Patrick James Mediam, 23, presser, of Queen-street, Rutherford, was remanded until next Tuesday when he appeared before Mr. R. J. Howard,…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Security police are investigating the whereabouts of £50,000 paid to the Communist Party for the sale…
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CANBERRA, Friday. — Sir George Rich has resigned as a justice of the High Court. This was announced by the…
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Mounted police who spurred their horses into the ranks of a hooting, screaming mob of more than 5000 teenagers…
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NELSON, British Columbia, April 29.—Thirty members of the Doukhobor sect, “The Sons of Freedom,” sentenced here to three years’…
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NEW YORK, April 22—Demon, starting teenagers dropped eiec[?] light globes and soda water Botties and shouted in an…
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The trial commenced at the sessions at East Maitland this afternoon of John Maxwell Hemnings, who has been charged…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.—Pound guilty of the manslaughter of a fellow lodger, Olaf Karl Khaleen, 53, boiler attendant, was…
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