Alleged Stealing Stranger Arrested SINGLETON
A man. a stranger to Singleton, was arrested by Constable Laycock on a charge of having stolen a wristlet watch…
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Courts & crime, 1940
1,293 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 65
Four Injured Car and Police Patrol In Collision SYDNEY
When a [?] car came into collision with a police patrol car near Jenkins-street. [?] Vale, on Sunday afternoon four persons were in…
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[?] He was remanded to appear to Wallsend Police Court as January 11, and was allowed half [?] with surety of £20,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Murder Charge Tiler on Remand BRISBANE
At the City Court, Leonard Harry Kick, 22, roof tiler, was charged with having, on or about December 22, murdered Mary Alma Dowse…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tribal War Aborigine on Murder Charge DARWIN
[?], a young aboriginal, has been [?] in connection with the recent tribal [?] Land, He is charged with the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Watch Found Under House Month's Gaol for Stealing
At Singleton Police Court yesterday afternoon, before Messrs E. J. Forrest and H. K. Pollack, Js.P., Thomas Boomer, an aboriginal, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Died Suddenly Lived Happily With Police Inquiries Sydney
Alfred Stanley Comber, aged [?] a linesman, residing in North Sydney, told his wife on Monday night that he did not want the dinner she…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First German Assault Fails
It has now been made public that the first great German offensive was held up in its early stages. In a special order of the Day to French troops, the Commander…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“Oh, Please Don’t” Women’s Sobbing Plea Theft of Watch Newcastle
“Oh [?] I have a [?] keep,” [?] Mary [?] 1809, in the Police [?] today…
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Charged with resisting a police officer while in the execution, of his duty on December 23, Kenneth Hamilton (about 30) appeared at the East…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cut Corner Two Before E. Maitland Court
A motorist and a motor cyclist were before Mr. N. L. Sheridan, P.M., at the East Maitland Court today for cutting the corner of Melbourne and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Marked Reduction In Road Accidents Success of Intensive Police Patrol Campaign
The Superintendent of Traffic Sydney Mr. Hooper, said that the marked reduction in road accident during the Christmas and New Year holidays was due, largely, to the [?] campaign for road safety carried out by the police in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Court. Drunk and Disorderly—resisting the Police
At the Merriwa Police Court, before Mr. J. R. Telfer and Mr. J. Leard, J's.P., Verdun James Wicks was charged with being drunk and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stolen Watch Stranger Sentenced SINGLETON
Thomas Boomer, aged 29, a stranger to Singleton, was given a month’s hard labour for stealing a watch valued at £1 from Walter H[?] of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Singleton News Police Court Receiving Stolen Goods Youth Fined Singlton
[?] was [?] with [?] days’ [?] for [?] He…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pyjama Girl Murder. Possible Dungog Clue
Interest in the mystery murder of a girl in a pyjama suit near Albury several years ago was revived in Dungog in the week prior to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fair Rents Court
Eleven applications for the determination of a fair rent were listed at a sitting of the Fair Rents Court at Paddington. In some instances, rents…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Secret Police Harass Czechs New Wave of Terror
Once more the German Gestapo (secret police) has been let loose on the Czechs and a new wave of arrests is sweeping, over…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →70,000 Acres of Grazing Country Destroyed. Terrific Bush Fire at Hillston. Police Call for Volunteers. Sydney
A message from Hillston states that a terrific bush fire which is sweeping along a 20-mile front has already destroyed 70,000 acres of good grazing country. BURNING since Monday morning it spread with such rapidity that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol Escapee Found in Truck MELBOURNE
While police and civilians seared through swamp and thick undergrowth for him, John Ryen, 33, a gaol escapee, stept in a railway truck…
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