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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1950

1,085 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 31 of 55

Gaol For Mother Of Eight Children

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.—A 32-years-old mother of, eight children broke down and cried in the quarter sessions to-day when…

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He Stayed in Gaol As a Penance

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 3

MANZANARES (Spain): The body of a Spanish Catholic leader who died after a prison term served in self-imposed penance…

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Assault on 'Bus Inspector Proved Costly Cost Bellbird Man £15/13/3

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 3

A Bellbird man, who wag charged with unlawfully assaulting a Rover Motors Ticket Inspector, was fined £5 and ordered to pay…

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Public Convenience Damaged Vandals Active Again Police Asked to Investigate

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 2

The Public Convenience at the corner of Brown and Dowling Streets has again been damaged by vandals, the Health Inspector (Mr. R…

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Police Ball On August 25

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 7

The Police Ball which was to have been held on June 16, will now be held at the Lyceum Hall on Friday, August 25…

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To-day’s Leader Micawber Comes to Australia Six Film Men Sent To Gaol

Maitland Mercury · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 1

WASHINGTON, June 30.—Eight Hollywood personalities were yesterday convicted of contempt of Congress, and six Immediately…

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Year’s Gaol For Stealing

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 2

QUIRINDI, Monday. — Alfred Patrick Riley, labourer, of Curlewis, pleaded not guilty at Quirindi court to stealing £71/19/6…

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Gaol Cooking Was Bad, Says Garden

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Jack Garden, who was yesterday released from prison after serving sentence for forgery, said on…

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Germans Seek Police Force

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 6

FRANKFURT, July 4.—American High Commissioner, John J. McCloy, said to-day that the Western Allies are considering a…

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Police Funeral for Const. Fuller

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 1

A full police funeral will be given the late Constable Allan James Fuller, of Tamworth, starting from St. Bede's Church of…

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Murder in Baseball Stadium

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, July 6.—Fifty-years-old Lawrence Doyle was mysteriously shot and killed as he sat among 50,000 spectators at…

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Milk Zone Council Has Registered with Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 2

A claim that the Australian Primary Producers' Union was the only organisation of primary producers entitled to register with the…

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Baseball Murder Mystery Deepens

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 8

NEW YORK, July—Monday’s mystery killing at the polo grounds deepened yesterday when police disclosed that a 45…

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Japanese Not Guilty of Murder

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 4

LOS NEGROS, July 6.—One of six Japanese charged with the murder, of two Australian prisoners of war at Idore, Dutch New…

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Fined £20 For Imitating Court Document

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 9

SYDNEY, Thurs—In Paddington Court yesterday Reginald George Seeney, of Bondi-road-Bondi, was fined £20 for having…

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Woman Charged With Axe Assault

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 5

GRIFFITH, Friday.—At attractive 20 year-old woman, alleged to have attacked her husband with an axe, was arrested at his…

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Rabbit Prosecutions. Cases at Muswellbrook Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 3

At the Muswellbrook Police Court on Wednesday, Albert George Brown represented by Mr. S. a White, pleaded guilty to a charge by the…

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America Charged with Open Aggression Lake Success. Thurs

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 2

The Chinese Communist Government has notified the United Nations that it is determined to "liberate" Formost…

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District Court Adjourned Big List For Hearing

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 1

The District Court which was to have been held at the Cessnock Courthouse yesterday was adjourned by the Registrar to a date to be…

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MR. F. H. HORSINGTON. Farewelled at Court House

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 8

Mr. Frank Horsington, C.P.S., who has been promoted to Forbes, was farewelled by the Bench, legal profession and police at the Court…

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