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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

809 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 41

Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 June 1951 · page 8

At the Merriwa Police Court on 22nd May, John Byrne (40), laborer, pleaded guilty to stealing a cheque and was fined £7…

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Police Use Batons on Strikers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 1 June 1951 · page 1

AUCKLAND (A.A.P. Reuter): Police used batons to break up a clash with 1500 deregistered waterside workers and…

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Wharfies and Police Clash in Auckland Auckland (N.z.)

Singleton Argus · Friday 1 June 1951 · page 4

Police used batons to break up a clash at noon today, with 1500 deregistered waterside workers…

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Auckland Clash. Strikers and Police. Auckland, N.Z. (A.A.P.-Reuter)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 June 1951 · page 1

The police used batons to break up a clash at noon to-day with 1500 deregistered waterside workers, marching up Queen Street. More than 200…

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Gaol and Fine for Communist

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 2 June 1951 · page 1

WASHINGTON: Phillip Bart, general manager of the New York Communist “Dally Worker,” was sentenced yesterday to…

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Bond On Sheep Stealing Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 2

A 32-years-old invalid pensioners Gordon John Dooley, of Bishop’s Bridge, charged at Maitland court to-day with…

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Reopening of Murder Case

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: The 15-years-oId Lavers murder case would be re-opended, if fresh evidence warranted such action, justice Minister…

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Orphanage Sisters Sent to Gaol (AAP-Reuter)

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 1

HONGKONG: The People’s Court at Nanking has ,sentenced two Catholic sisters to 10 years Imprisonment for alleged neglect…

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Women Seek Bail On Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: Two women charged with, the murder of ex-boxer William John Lee sought release on bail in the Supreme Court…

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Police Seek Cheque Holder

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 2

SINGLETON: A man has been arrested at Glen [?] on charges of false pretences. It is alleged that valueless cheques had been…

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Police Fire Shots Over Intruders

Singleton Argus · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Police fired several warning shots when they disturbed intruders in Williamtown Beach railway station…

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Husband Comes Home To Sleep, But That’s All Lengthy Divorce List At Circuit Court

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 June 1951 · page 3

Nellie Smith London (nee Modern), of Lambton-road, New Lambton, who applied to Mr. Justice Kinsella in the Circuit Court at Maitland for a divorce to-day, said that her husband, who had admitted adultery with one Ivy Price on…

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Assault Charge Adjourned

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 June 1951 · page 4

An assault charge laid by Bronlslaw Tyburs[?], of 66 Church-street, against Stansisor Zysek, of Holding Centre No. 1…

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15-Year-Old on Murder Charge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 June 1951 · page 3

A 15 year old schoolboy was committed for trial by the City Coroner (Mr. Burke) in Melbourne yesterday on a charge…

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Police, Wharfies Clash In p Martin Place

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Police and wharflabourers closhed in Martin Place to-day, shortly before 10 a.m., in a boisterous demonstration against the prosecution of union secretary, James Healy…

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Court Papers to Go to Crown Solicitor Judge’s Direction During Divorce Case Hearing

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 June 1951 · page 2

[?] his finding in a petition for divorce heard before the Circuit Court at East Maitland yesterday, Mr. Justice Kincella directed the attention of the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor to deposition papers of a children’s…

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Song of the Sea Was Too Sweet Divorce Petitions Before East Maitland Circuit Court

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 June 1951 · page 2

After Anne Reed, of 88 Robert-street, Islington, one time the former Miss Parish, and, subsequent to that, one Mrs. Holmes, had mourned the loss of late sailor Holmes as her husband, she took unto herself Ion Ashton Reed as her…

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Five Yews Gaol For Boy

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 June 1951 · page 7

MELBOURNE: Herbert Frederick Wason,’ 16, farmhand, of Long Gully, Bendigo, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Hudson in…

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Wauchope Police Station Burgled

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 6 June 1951 · page 1

Under cover of the noise and activity in the dismantling of Wirth's Circus in the early hours of Thursday morning last, a thief broke a…

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U.S. Red Leaders Given Gaol Terms Washington

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 June 1951 · page 2

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a majority decision of six to two, yesterday upheld the conviction of America's 11 ton…

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