Heddon Murder Simpkins Committed For Trial Coroner’s Finding Kurri Kurri
The Kurri Kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) late yesterday afternoon committed Cecil Roy Simpkins (24). for trial at the nest sitting…
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Courts & crime, 1940
1,293 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 65
STOLE 8/2 From Woman Sentenced to 3 Months’ Gaol NEWCASTLE
For stealing [?] from a young [?] [?] was [?] to three months’ Imprisonment by Mr. [?] to the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Sentenced. Called "Heil Hitler." KALGOORLIE
In the Kalgoorlie Police Court, Alexander Gilmour, unemployed, was sentenced to one month's gaol for having shouted in a street "Heil Hitler," and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kurri Murder Inquest Man Committed for Trial
The Kurri Kurri District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns). at the conclusion of his inquest on Wednesday on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →False Pretences. Two Men Charged. Disputed Amount of Change Received
Two strangers came into town on Monday, and, according to a story told at the Police Court on Wednesday, made several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Final Assault Capture of Narvik Shelled by Fleet London, May 20
Eye-witnesses’ accounts state that the Allies final assault on [?] which was captured from the Germans on Wednesday,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shouted "Heil, Hitler!" in the Street Man Given One Month's Gaol, Kalgoorlie
At the Police Court, Alexander Gilmour, 47, unemployed, was sentenced to one month's gaol for having shouted "Heil, Hitler!" and "Britain will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Murder of Woman at Heddon Greta Man Committed for Trial
Cecil Roy Simpkins was committed for trial at the conclusion of the inquest at Kurri on Wednesday on Martha Miller (63) who was found…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Acquitted on Murder Charge Man Pleads Justifiable Homicide. Sydney
When Esau Henry Curran, 69, an old-age pensioner, was charged at the Central Criminal Court to-day with having murdered Michael James…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Tribute Value of Kindergarten Schools SYDNEY
The police department has [?] [?] Kindergarten Using of N.S.W. [?] [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Acquitted on Charge of Murder Shooting of A.I.F. Man Sydney
When [?] Henry course Gene [?] was charged at the Central Carmines Court in say with hartal mortared…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shot While Walking Along Lane Man Does Not Desire Police Action. Sydney
A man who gave his name as George Dempsey, on being admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital last night with a bullet wound in the head, told…
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Allegations that a man struck a woman on the head with a bootlast. then choked her to death, cut his own throat with…
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Without calling on the defence, a jury at the Central Criminal Court yesterday acquitted Esau Henry Curran, 69…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Joined the Police Force
The Cessnock district has contributed largely to the Police Force of N.S. Wales. In recent weeks two more…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communist Sent to Gaol. Two Offences Against Security Act
At the Perth (W.A.) Police Court the other day William Dean, 43, bookseller, a prominent Perth Communist, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Struck Out Sudden End to Alleged Assault Case Brother and Sister
A case come to an unexpectedly sudden end at the West Maitland Court to-day, which Dorothy Elizabeth Duck, of Vacy, charged her brother,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Not War, But Murder How the Nazis Have "Protected" Neutral Countries
APPARENTLY there is no limit to which Hitler and his Nazi gangsters will not go in the matter of ruthlessness. Indignation and horror swept over the world during the last war when German Zeppelins dropped bombs on London and other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stole Groceries Labourer in Court NEWCASTLE
Yesterday Alfred Clarke (21), [?]bourer, went to the Newcastle railway goods yard and state a quantity of groceries valued at £10. Later…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Illegal Betting Two Men Fined at Cessnock Court
On charges of illegal betting, Ralph Gibson, 27, and Wallace Nixon Pinchen, 34 were each fined £20, at Cessnock Police…
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