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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1953

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Husband Charged With Murder

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 2

ADELAIDE : Two women were battered to death and another woman and a boy critically injured in rooms…

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Chemist Charged With Murder

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 3

ADELAIDE: Art industrial chemist, John Balaban, 29, was charged in the Adelaide police court to-day on [?]…

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Welcome to Magistrate

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 2

Mr. A. B. McDonald, S.M, was welcomed to the Maitland circuit to-day on behalf of the legal profession and…

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Assault Charge Adjourned

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 3

A charge against Bryant Sapsed Freeman, 23, a soldier, Telerah-street, Telerah that on March 7 he unlawfully…

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Magistrate Was Not Satisfied

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 3

A man charged with having blankets in his custody which were reasonably suspected of baring been…

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Attacks On Police Shock Minister

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: NSW Deputy Premier (Mr. Hetfron) said to-day he had been shocked from time to time by…

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Raced Away From Police Cycle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 2

A youth, charged with riding a motor cycle at a speed dangerous to the public, was fined £20, with 12/ costs by…

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High Court Ruling On Taxation

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: The High Court, by a 3-2 majority, to-day ruled that £66,000,000 already distributed to Australian woolgrowers by the Commonwealth was not subject to income tax…

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Taste of Gaol, Then Bond

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 1

NEWCASTLE : The former theology students were today sentenced to 24 hours’ Gaol and placed on a three-years’…

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Assault Charge at Cessnock Defendant Gets Suspended Sentence

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 3

Neville Pointer, 21, of Shalamah-street, Cessnock, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment at the…

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Scone District Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 1

At Scone District Court on March 30th, Robert Taylor, shearer, sued Jack Fordham, shearing contractor, claiming…

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Court Orders New Ballot

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY: The president of the Industrial Commission (Mr. Justice Taylor) has declared an election of…

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Bond On Assault Charge

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 4

CESSNOCK: Neville Pointer, 21, of Shalimar-street, Cessnock, was charged at Cessnock court, before Mr…

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Rural Cooperative on Theft Charge

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 1

Wingham Rural Cooperative Society Ltd. was charged at Wingham Court last week with having stolen 6976lb of…

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Drover for trial on horse stealing charge

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 1

Charged with stealing a horse valued at £12/10/a man at Singleton Court on Monday was committed for trial at the next Quartet .Sessions. The man, Victor Herbert…

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Ten Year’s Gaol For Doyle

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY: Reginald Aubrey Doyle, 41, bankrupt professional punter and investor, was sentenced to Quarter…

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Union May Withdraw From Court

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: The F.E.D.F.L may colander withdrawing from the Arbitration Court state secretary (Mr. W. Lane)…

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Police raid women gamblers in church New York

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 2

A minister in Pontiac (Michigan) denounced 27 housewives from his pulpit for…

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For Trial on Stealing Charge

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 4

Two men were committed for trial at Maitland Quarter Sessions by Mr Stapleton S.M at Dangog Court on…

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More Murder Charges Against Christie

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 6

Police yesterday charged John Christie, 55, with the murder o£ three more of the women whose bodies were…

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