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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1951

809 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 41

Young Woman On Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY : An attractive, red-headed woman was arrested to-day and charged with the murder of George Brott, 74, whartlebour…

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Husband Arrested On Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE: A . 40-years-old woman was shot dead: and her two sons wounded-In their home In Nicholson-street,…

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Police Enquire Into Fires

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 4

GLEN INNES: A detective has arrived here to help local police investigate lour mysterious fires. fires…

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Police Suspect Spinsters Poisoned

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 July 1951 · page 2

MURWILLUMBAH, Monday. -Detectives investigating the sudden death of two elderly spinster sisters at the week-end…

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Mother Charged with Murder. Two Children Hacked to Death. Toowoomba, Tues

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 2

In Toowoomba Police Court to-day, a mother was charged with murdering her two young sons. Police alleged she had hacked…

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Mother Charged With Sordid Crime

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 1

TOOWOOMBA: In the police court to-day a mother was charged with the murder of her two young sons…

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Police Hunt for Criminal Attacker

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE: A man criminally assaulted a two-years-old girl at her home in Fitzroy to-day. The man crept Into a room and…

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Police Express Alarm Over New Australians

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: C.I.B. defectives are alarmed because they say there are at feast 1000 New Australians “adrift” in New South Wales, of whom neither the police nor Federal authorities have any check…

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Delay in Comic Court's Preparation

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 4

MELBOURNE : Because the champion, Comic Court, has an inured leg, plans to bring him to Melbourne in the first…

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Cessnock Police Ball Well Attended Miss Wilma Howell "Belle of Ball"

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 July 1951 · page 1

Brightly coloured streamers arranged artistically were used with an abundance of greenery to decorate the…

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Warning From Magistrate

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 2

The Magistrate, Mr. A. S. The [?] S.M., [?] a mo cyclist In the Maitland court this morning that something would…

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Dead Man’s Brother On Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 July 1951 · page 2

Police last night charged [?]chael Joseph Mah[?] Jesmond, with the M[?] brother, Ernest [?]…

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Remanded On Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 July 1951 · page 3

CASINO: William Henry Abbott was to-day remanded until August 16 on a charge of having murdered Don Warner, 18, and…

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Aberdeen News Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 4

Before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, S.M., at the Police Court on Tuesday, 17th July, Herbert K. Cole appeared on a charge of…

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Mannequin Parade In Gaol

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 1

LONDON: Two hundred women prisoners in Holloway Gaol, dressed in drab regulation cotton overall trucks, stand to [?]…

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Father of 11 Children Sent to Gaol

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY: Father of 11 children was sentenced to two years’ gaol at the Quarter Sessions to-day on charges of…

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Police Have a Mystery

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 1

DENVER: A man, who disappeared from a service station, where he was employed in 1949, has denied here that he was…

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Court Case Disimssed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 1

The case in which Irene Harris, of Millfield, proceeded against William Ingram, of Millfield, at the Cessnock…

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Police Say Rail Points Were Switched

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 3

Frank Ripley, shed fireman, of Maitland-road. Herham was committed for trial on September 11 when he appeared at Newcastle…

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Charged with Raping Girl

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 28 July 1951 · page 1

ALBANY (New York): One of the "Scottsboro boys," James Andrew Wright, was Indicted here yesterday on a charge of…

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