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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1940

1,293 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 65

Sentenced to Death Man Fired Shot From Taxi

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 3

Convicted at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, on Monday on a charge of having wounded Thomas James Brennan with intent to…

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Driver Charged Sequel to Collision Case Adjourned

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 6

After hearing evidence for the prosecution at West Maitland Court yesterday in the case in which Arthur Edmonton…

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North-eastern Police District Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1940 · page 8

Third-class Superintendent H. H. C. Jones, of Newcastle, will succeed to the control of the North-eastern Police District at the end of the…

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I.r.a.’s Sentenced Dublin, March 18

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 10

Three members of the Irish Republican Army were sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment on charges arising out of the raid on the…

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Police Present Rothbury Men Interviewed CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 7

Officials of the Cessnock Strike Committee visited Rothbury Colliery and interviewed the men from Cessnock and Maitland working there…

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Two Strikes Mentioned in Court Deputies Claims Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 7

When the [?] [?] (Mr/ Justice [?] the…

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Verdict for £154 Miner’s Claim Against Bus Proprietors District Court

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 March 1940 · page 6

After as hour’s retirement, jury of four at the District Court at East Maitland to-day, retuned a verdict of £154/2/ for john…

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Scone Police Court

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 2

Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P. M., occupied the Bench at the Scone Police Court on Wednesday…

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Deserted From Vessel Man Sentenced to Three Months' Gaol. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 6

At the Central Court to-day, Albert Thomas Naylor, a wireless operator, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment on a charge…

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Gunman in Court Sequel to Murder Outrace (“Mercury Service) LONDON, March 11

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 4

[?] to the [?] yesterday of [?] [?] was the [?] at the [?]…

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Murder Charge Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 7

Bail was not applied for when William Griffiths (38) a hotelkeeper, was remanded at the Central court to-day until March 29 on a charge of…

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Woman Acouitted of Murder

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 6

Violet Muller, aged 33, was found not guilty at the Criminal Court in Sydney yesterday of the murder of John Scholey Ritchie, aged 42, a…

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One Thing at a Time Magistrate Advises Car Driver

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 8

The story of a man who drove a motor car at 62 miles an hour with one arm around a girl who was nearly in his lap, and with the other…

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Special Licensing Court

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 2

An application by Alfred Aldis was granted for the transfer of the license of the Empire Hotel from William Harris…

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Two Shot Dead Murder—Suicide Theory [?]

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 2

A nineteen year old girl [?] Artery and Keith [?] 24, were found [?] wounded in the bedroom of a house at The…

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Workers' Compensation Court. Cessnock Cases

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 7

In the Workers' Compensation Court at Newcastle on Tuesday a verdict was given in a claim by William Moody, of Michael-street…

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Court of Petty Sessions Betting Cases

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 2

Police v. Alexander Robert Mitchell, for a breach of the Gaming and Betting Act, that at Scone, he was in a street, to wit, a room of the Belmore…

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High Officials Charged. Alleged to Have Supplied Shipping Secrets to Germany. the Hague

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 2

The secret trial has begun in which Vau Hoeven, a high official in the Ministry for Social Affairs, has been accused of supplying shipping secrets to…

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Verdict for £10 Claim on Hairdressing Firm District Court

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 7

Further evidence was given in the Maitland District Court to-day in the case in which [?] O’Nelli, of Congewal st. Aberdare…

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