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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

1,085 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 55

For Trial On Cattle Stealing Charge

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

SINGLETON, Sat. — Robert Reginald Beetson appeared at the Singleton court on a charge of stealing 17 head of cattle,…

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Cemetery Arrest Led To Murder Conviction

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, May 6.— Camllo Heyra, 50, who claimed that a police psychiatrist had hynotised him into a confession, was found…

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Not Before Police Court

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 3

When the name of Mervyn William Kay. 26-years-old labourer, of Anvil Creek, Greta, was called outside Maitland court…

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Timber Firm Charged

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 2

SINGLETON, Monday.—Gould Bros. Sawmills Pty. Ltd., Singleton, was charged at the Singleton court with having used in the…

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Court List Cluttered Up

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 2

Because of full court lists for some time ahead, difficulty is being experienced in allotting hearing dates for cases stood over…

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Police Hunt For Girl’s Slayer

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The police Hunt for the slayer of Sylvia Holmes, 23. who was found strangled at her Fitzroy home on…

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Dugan And Mears Before Court

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday. — “I we had been trying we could have killed everyone there,” Darcy Dugan told him after being charged with…

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Doctor Went to Wrong Court

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 1

SINGLETON Monday—A late arrival at Singleton court this morning was Dr, J, M. Woods of Merrisa who had been…

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Court Action Against Two East Greta Men

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 3

Hearing commenced In Maitland court this afternoon of two charges against East Greta men, John William Masterson, 38, miner, of…

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May Day Clash in Londan Communists and Police in Hand to Hand Struggle

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Today. Several thousand Communist and Trade Unions in May Day demonstrations, clashed with the police yesterday afternoon in Trafalgar Square, Oxford Street, London's West End…

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Assault Case Adjourned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 3

The case in which Ivy Harris Duncan, of Lavender-street, East Cessnock, proceeded against Andrew Duncan, of Lavender-street, Cessnock, for…

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Five Years for Assault

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Judge Markell, in the Quarter Sessions to-day, sentenced Ronald Joseph Meredith, 27, labourer, to five…

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Guilty To Fighting, But Not Assault

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 3

SINGLETON, Tuesday.—Aubrey Stanley Pengue, of Moonan Flat, pleaded not guilty at the Singleton sessions to-day to a…

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Police View Bicycle Offences Seriously

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 3

The prosecuting sergeant told Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M, at Cessnock Court this morning that police, took a serious view of offences such as riding…

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District Court Opens To-morrow

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 2

Sittings of Maitland District Court will commence at East Maitland courthouse at 10 a.m. tomorrow, with Judge O’Sullivan…

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Expansion of District Court Work

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday—A number of district court Judges has already dealt with cases under the expanded jurisdiction conferred…

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PERSONAL Retirement of Police-Sergt T. G. S. Bedingfeld

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 1

With the necessary formalities now overcome, and without the slightest trouble, too, the way is now open to proceed with the…

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Judge "Puzzled" -Assault Case Singleton Court Appeal

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 2

"I cannot understand this from a man like you, with your reputation—it puzzles me," Judge O'Sullivan said at…

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Guilty of Assault

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 2

Aubrey Stanley Teague,, 26, married man with three children, a labourer of Moonan Flats, near Scone, was found…

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Three Years’ Bond For Assault

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 3

SINGLETON, Wed—-Arthur Stanley Teague. 20, married, of Moonan Flat, was formed guilty at Singleton sessions yesterday, after the jury had…

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