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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

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Police Find Second Body in Creek

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 3

Police this morning recovered the body of the second men drowned on Sunday in Pipe Clay Creek, Port Stephens…

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Remanded On Assault Charge

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 2

Charged at Maitland court with having unlawfully assaulted a 10-years-old girl at Kurri Kurri yon or about December £1, Clifford…

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Convicted Of Stealing £1 Note MUSWELLBROOK

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 5

At the Muswellbrook court Michael Thomas McDermott was charged with stealing the sum of £1, the property of John…

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Man Remanded On Kurri Kurri Theft Charges SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 2

A tailor’s cutter appeared at Newtown court on four charges of having stolen property valued at nearly £1000, including a…

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Young Mother Charged With two Murders MELBOURNE

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 2

Homicide detectives have left for Redcliffe, 346 miles north-west of Melbourne, to exhume the body of a baby boy…

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Plans For Comic Court ADELAIDE

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 5

Mr. Jack Lee, junr.. part-owner of Comic Court, said they had planned to send the horse to Melbourne soon, and he would…

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Mother Collapsed In Court Dock MELBOURNE

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 1

A twenty-year-old mother collapsed to the dock at the City Court to-day when she was charged with the murder of her…

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Murder and Stealing Alleged Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 4

A further charge of having stolen Jewellery valued at £15,000 was made , against Ronald Newman Cribben, 21 shearer,…

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Police Boys’ Club Camp

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 2

Twenty boys have been chosen by Maitland District Police-Citizens Boys’ Club to attend a 14 [?] camp at Kurralong;…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle FRIDAY, 5th JANUARY, 1951. Driving Under Influence and Negligent Driving. Charges At Police Court. Heavy Fines Imposed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 3

Mr. McCauley, S.M., was on the Bench at the Court of Petty Sessons, Muswellbrook, on Wednesday, when several cases of alleged driving under…

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Declined to Tell of Assault Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 2

Well-known Sydney Identity, Mrs, Matilda Parsons, formerly Mrs, “Tilly” Devine, declined to give evidence at the Central…

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“Poison” Victim Was Charged With Drunkenness MURWILLUMBAH

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 January 1951 · page 5

Tweed, District Ambulance and Murwillumbah police went to Brooks Road, Ky[?]mboon, about five milles from Murwillumbah,…

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Gaol Break Ruse

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 6

In Teheran (Persis), 10 members of the Illegal Todeh Party who were gaoled after an attempt to kill the Shah of Parsia…

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Confession in Torso Murder New York

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 1

H house painter has confessed to the “Brooklyn torso” murder, District Attorney Miles McDonald, aid said that [?] Donation,…

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Two Escape From Victorian Gaol, MELBOURNE

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1951 · page 1

Armed police are searching for two prisoners who escaped from Corrinugle [?] on the south western coast of Victoria durlog…

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Merriwa Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 10

At the Merriwa Police Court on Tuesday last, Bernard Kennedy failed to appear to answer a charge of drunkenness, and forfeited his…

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CoIIapse ln Police Court SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 6

Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell Osborne. 80, collapsed In the witness box at Burwood Court while barrister Son, Mr. X M…

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Secretary Charged SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 5

Robert Stanley Viles, 50, secretary of Poultry Pty. Ltd., was remanded in the Central Court to-day on a charge of embezzling…

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Assault Case Adjourned

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 2

An assault charge against Harold Norman Dunn, of 8. Telarad-street, Telarah, was adjourned today until March 8…

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Police Use Stomach Pump on Doctor Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 1

Macquarie Street specialist, Dr. Reginald Stuart Jones, was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital and a stomach pump used on him after…

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