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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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McCarthy Committee Counsel Charged Abused Power To Get Favour For Conscript

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

WASHINGTON: Democratic members of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Permanent Investigations Subcommittee are reported to be considering the possibility of demanding the dismissal of Roy-Cohn, chief…

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Rome's Chief Police Doctor Resigns ROME

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 1

Rome's chief police doctor, Tomoaso Pavone, last night resigned as a result of the sensational trial now proceeding here…

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Stroud Youth Given Bond Magistrate's Firm Warning

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1954 · page 1

An 18-year-old Stroud youth who was convicted toy Mr. A. D. Tyler, S.M., at Dungog Court of Petty Sessions last…

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Royal Commission Into Charges Of Assault By Police

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: Appearance were taken at the first sitting of the Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission at Queen’s Square court to-day Royal Commissioner Mr. Justice Dovey will…

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Half Lunatic, Magistrate Told Driver

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 1

Mr. F. B. Wood. S. M, likened the cosdact of e man who drove while under the influence on Saturday to that of “a…

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Man to be charged TOWNSVILLE, Monday

Singleton Argus · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 2

A 10-months-old baby was found dead near a bloodstained bed by police last night…

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Puertorican Sentenced

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK: The, Puerto Rican Nationalist Party leader in the United States, Juan Francisco Ortiz Medina, was…

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Doctor On Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 6

BRISBANE: Neville Denning 25, resident medical officer at Townsville Hospital, was charged Townville court with the…

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“Not an Accomplice to Murder”

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 2

ROME: A pretty model should during Italy’s “Druo Oray” trial yesterday. “I am not an accomplice to…

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Another Charge Against Police

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY: State Premier Cahill said that he had received another allegation of III-treatment by pollce…

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Court Report to Minister

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: The report of an inquiry into the cause of death of two soldiers who were drowned last week has been…

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Smart Arrest by Local Police Goods Taken From Train Recovered

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 2

Muswellbrook police figured in a smart arrest last night. Two young men were arrested at the picture theatre and…

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Murder Conviction Appeals Dismissed

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 March 1954 · page 5

BRISBANE: The Court of Criminal Appeal unanimously rejected appeals by two men against convictions for [?]…

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Police Theory On Seaman’s Death

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: Police now believe that an ex-seaman who was found dead in a Paddington residential may have used…

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Committed On Assault Charge

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 10

KURRI: At Kurri court to-day Don McLaren, 28, of Hopetoun-street, Kurri was committed for trial at Maitland…

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Widow On Six Murder Charges

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 3

BORDEAUX: Six murder charges against a 57-years-old widow were based on “malicious village gossip.”…

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Young Mother On Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 8

MELBOURNE: Police claimed in the. City Court that a young woman had suffocated her baby…

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Gaol for Men in Racing Swindle “Ring-in” Trial Ends After Five Weeks

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 1

LONDON: Four men received goal terms after being found guilty yesterday at the Old Bailey trial of the “Francosal Case”—an alleged racing swindle involving the switch of horses and many thousands of…

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Man Said He Used Judo, Says Policeman Court Evidence In Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: A police constable said in Central Court to-day that a man who threw him onto the pavement had told him later that he had used some judo on him…

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Theft of Watch on Month's Gaol

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 3

Michael Creedon (29), laborer, was on Wednesday morning last charged before a local Bench at Scone Court…

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