Goal for Assault
SYDNEY: A women told Paddington court to-day that a man had pushed her head first down 14 stairs last night…
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Courts & crime, 1954
954 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 48
Muswellbrook Police Court Cases Heard on
At the Police Court on Wednesday, Claude Stanway Budden failed to appear on a charge of indecent behaviour and…
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SYDNEY: A youth who attacked a young woman at Lindfield on Wednesday night was given a £50 good…
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The fireman on the North-West Mail train on the night of 29th March, 1954, pleaded guilty at the Muswellbrook Police Court on Wednesday to having been on duty whilst under the influence of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Broke Police Station Window. Weston Man on Three Charges
A Weston man was fined a total of £15 when he appeared before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., at Kurri Court…
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NEWCASTLE: A man in Newcastle Court to-day put his arms around his wife and supported her when she was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Communist Paper Seized By Police
PARIS: French Communists yesterday flouted police by publishing a single-sheet edition of the Communist…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Magistrate Praises Action By Police
Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., in Maitland court yesterday afternoon praised the action of police in carrying out investigations of rood conditions and visibility at the scene of an accident at Branxton while…
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Two more boys, in addition to the five selected last week, will go to Sydney to represent Cessnock Police Boys' Club at…
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MELBOURNE: Sydney Owen Meredith [?]43, farm labourer, of Pittong, was gaoled for 10 years to-day…
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Mr. C. K. Ward S.M., at Singleton Court on Monday dismissed a charge of negligent driving laid by police against Emmett C. Simpson, 44, of Paddington, who was the driver…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Reported For Assault Previously Detective’s Admission Before Royal Commission
SYDNEY: A C.I.B. defective admitted in the Studley-Ruxton Royal Commission to-day that a complaint had been laid against him five years ago for assaulting a man…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Use Tear Gas on Assembly
GEORGETOWN (British Galena): Police used tear [?] bombs to disperse a 3GO-strong crowd at a sugar plantation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Branxton Girl's Death Fairness of police commended
MAITLAND.—Mr. Wood. S.M., commended local police officers for scrupulous fairness in their conduct of a prosecution in Maitland Court. He made the comment…
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SYDNEY: Police Commissioner Delaney has been granted leave to attend the Carruthers-Chrem…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Constable Denied Assault
SYDNEY: Det Constable John William reys to-day denied in the Studley-Rugton Toyal commission that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ball in Aid of Police Boys
Members of the Kurri Kurri Pipe Band will partner debutantes at the Scotch Ball to be held in aid of the Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Petition for Right of Appeal Refused Night Club Murder Recalled
SYDNEY, Thursday: The Minister for Justice, Mr. Downing, rejected a petition by a Sydney criminal, John…
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NAIROBI: East Africa Commander in Chief, General Sir George Erskine, yesterday confirmed a court…
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CESSNOCK: Max Fernance 18, of Edith-street: Cessoock, was charged at Cessnock. Court to-day with having…
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