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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1939

1,886 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 95

Flu Epidemic Police Fall Victims Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1939 · page 1

An epidemic of influenza is being experienced in Auckland. Forty police are laiD up and are accommodated in a special section of the…

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Struck by Car "Knocked Off Cycle" Court Claim Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1939 · page 2

In the Singleton Small Debts Court Mrs. Florence Amslia Decks made a successful claim against Stanley Freeman Andrews, a butcher, of Singleton…

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A Mayfair Notebook Royal Family Attend Wedding—New Hair Styles—Memorial to Bronte Sisters—Kent's Home to be Sold—Changes of Colour in Paris—Brilliant Court Pageantry—Jewelled Bathrooms—Buckingham Palace Party

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1939 · page 3

HE King and Queen, accompanied by the two Princesses, attended the wedding at Holy Trinity…

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Emergency Police Reserve SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 April 1939 · page 3

Outstanding response has greeted the police call for reservists for duty in time of emergency. In less than a fortnight more than…

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Hobart Tragedy Young Man Charged Three Shot Dead Hobart

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 April 1939 · page 5

Two men and a young woman were shot dead at Grass Tree Hill, near Hobart, yesterday and another man injured about the head…

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Man Sought Narromine Mystery May Help Police Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 April 1939 · page 5

Detectives today brought to Sydney for analysis bones and teeth believed to be human, recovered on Saturday from the remains of a lire at…

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Dispute Over Lottery Prize. Injunction in Equity Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Monday 24 April 1939 · page 1

The dispute over a fourth share of £1000, the second prize in the State lottery drawn last Monday, came before the Equity Court on Friday,…

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Piha Case Two Men Before Auckland Court. a Large Gallery. Auckland (N.z.)

The Scone Advocate · Monday 24 April 1939 · page 4

The Auckland Police Court to-day was crowded when Gordon Robert McKny, 43, and James Arthur Talbot, 38, appeared on…

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Theft of Watch Greta Main Man's Lapse

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 5

At Cessnock Police Court yesterday Donald Harris, 28, of Greta Main, was charged with having stolen a watch valued at…

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Stroud Sensation Alleged Attempted Murder

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 2

On Wednesday evening last it is alleged Albert Henry Gentles, aged 15 1/2 years, attempted to murder his employer, Lindsay Douglas Caldwell…

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Local Auxiliary Police

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 2

Dungog's quota of auxiliary police, the citizen force that is being enrolled in the State as part of the defence measures, has been enrolled…

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Charge of Assault Sequel to Incident at Party

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 1

Alister Gregory, of Bellbird, pleaded guilty, at Cessnock Court yesterday, to a charge of assaulting Ronald Wills Snape,…

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Court Proceedings Hobart

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 2

Charles Estcourt, 22, appeared at the Hobart Court on a charge of murdering his wife, Doreen Estcourt, 19, Alfred Lambley Webbm 50, and…

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Popular Officer Police Appointment SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 1

When the Commissioner for Police, Mr. McKay, announced at the Police Returned Soldiers' banquet last night that Mr. E. G. Allen was to be…

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Police Rush to Warehouse Four Men Arrested SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1939 · page 1

Police on motor cycles rushed to a warehouse of the Peerless Supply Company, Ltd., Cumperdown, at midnight, surrounded the building, and…

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Alleged Indecent Assault Clergyman Involved. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 2

Herbert Stanley Cocks, 49, who is said to be Rector of St. John's Church of England, Ashfield, was charged at the Quarter Sessions…

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Assaulted and Robbed Official Three Years' Gaol

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 4

William Tyson, aged 32, former pugilist, was sentenced to three years' gaol at the Quarter Sessions in Sydney on Monday for having…

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Murder Cases New Legislation MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 3

Juries will have the power to bring In verdicts of murder in the first, second or third degrees it legislation being considered by the Chief Secretary,…

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Alleged Assault on Boy Story At Sydney Sessions SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Her bert Stanley Cocks, 49, was charged with having indecently assaulted a 10-year-old boy at Sydney Domain Baths…

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Quota Filled Police Reserves DUNGOG

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 5

The quota of six police reserves | sought by the Dungog Police has been obtained, and several others have stated their willingness to join…

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