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Courts & crime, 1950

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Police Auction Sale To-morrow

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 26 May 1950 · page 9

Unclaimed articles at the Cessnock Police Station will be sold by auction at the Station at 10 o'clock to-…

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£5,500 Towards Police Boys Club

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 26 May 1950 · page 7

The Member for Ceasnock, Mr. J. W. Crook, M.L.A, has been advised by the Premier (Mr. McGirr) that approval has been given for a…

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Games Lost Through Bad Court Position

Maitland Mercury · Friday 26 May 1950 · page 6

Hil[?]t team certainly “went to town” in its match against Ground Members 2 and had a runaway win…

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Gaol Escapees

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 May 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday. — Police believe that the three Berrima escapees passed through Narromine yesterday and Trangie this…

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Search For Gaol Escapees

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 May 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—Police raided several houses and haunts of the underworld this morning searching for three prisoners who…

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Remanded on Charge of Stealing

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 May 1950 · page 2

Henry John Allan, 34, baker, of 21 Thomas-street, Mayfield, was remanded for sentence till Thursday by P. R. Wood, S.M., after he…

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Wife Faces Charge Of Murder

Singleton Argus · Monday 29 May 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK, Monday.—Mrs. Anna Bornholdt (58) was charged with murder yesterday after police had accused her of…

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High School Pupils Admit Murder

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 May 1950 · page 4

SAN FRANCISCO, May 29 (AAP) —Three high school students have admitted at Long Beach (Cal.) that they had held up and murdered a…

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Supreme Court in Maitland To-morrow

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 May 1950 · page 2

Only criminal matter set down for the Maitland sittings of the Supreme Court, commencing to-morrow, is the trial of Terrance O’Brien,…

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Berlin Youth Peace Parade Was Quiet Police Who Marched Had Prussian Precision

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 May 1950 · page 1

BERLIN, May 29.—East Berlin’s half a million youth “peace” demonstrators kept the peace yesterday. Despite months of advance ballyhoo, the parade failed as a crowd attraction…

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Charged With False Pretences

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 3

CESSNOCK. Tuesday. — At Cessnock court to-day before Mr. F. Wood, S.M., Albert James Irwin was charged with having at…

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Soviet Zone Police Desert

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 4

BERLIN, May 30 (AAP). — Thirty-nine Berlin Soviet-zone police deserted to the Western senior during the Whitsun…

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Law Points Raised at Court Hearing

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 2

Matthew Victor James Duxbury, 25, traveller, of 42 Donald-street, Telarah, who was acquitted at last sittings of Maitland…

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Ellalong Man Before Court Drunken Driving Charge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 5

Donald Francis McLeod, 31, of Ellalong, appeared at Cessnok Court this morning' and pleaded "Not Guilty" to a charge of…

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Three Years’ Gaol For Journalist

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.—Robert Morley, 42, described as a journalist, who, according to his counsel, participated in a colossal scheme…

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Man Charged With Death of Young Wife

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Wed. — A wood machinist, aged 28, was charged to-day with the murder of his attractive young wife, whose…

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Gaol For 26 On Spy Charges In Czechoslovakia

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 1

PRAGUE, May 81. — Twenty six people, convicted at Suslce, neae Pllsen, of high treason and “spying for the United States,”…

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Camp Police Not Known As “The Gestapo”

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 1

Constable W. W. Symons, Greta police officer, said in Maitland police court to-day that he had not beard one of the…

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To-day’s Leader: “We Are All Brothers” Australian Illtreated In Mexican Gaol

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 1

MONTREAL, June 1.—A young Melbourne commercial artist, thrown into gaol by Mexican immigration authorities for overstaying his visit…

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Jap. War Trials on Monday 92 Charged with Murder

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 June 1950 · page 4

Trials of 92 Japanese accused of wartime atrocities against Australian Servicemen, will begin on Monday…

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