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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,098 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 55

Loss of Hands Claim Against Company Circuit Court

Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 May 1941 · page 4

The hearing was continued at the Maitland Circuit court to-day of the claim for £10,000 by Edward Dallas, of Tighe’s Hill. Newcastle,…

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Only Way Release of Man From Gaol. CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 May 1941 · page 5

The published statement that the Chief Secretary (Mr. J. J. M. Reddeley) was responsible for the release of Herman: Richard Hall, a miner, from…

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Charge of Stealing Wire. P.M. Finds Offence Proved. But Discharges Defendant Under Sec. 556A

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 27 May 1941 · page 1

Gordon Arthur Clarke, 28, wheeler, pleaded not guilty, at Cessneck Police Court yesterday, to a charge of…

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Motor Collision Case At West Maitland Court

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 May 1941 · page 5

Arising out of a collision between two cars at the junction of High and Parallel-streets, West Maitland, on March 23, Douglas Daley, of…

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Brothers in Litigation. Case at Maitland Supreme Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 May 1941 · page 5

At the sittings of the Supreme Court, before Mr, Justice Herron, at Maitland on Wednesday, Benjamin Archer Turnbull, of Singleton, sued his brother,…

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£10,000 CLAIM Loss Of Hands In Accident Circuit Court

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 May 1941 · page 5

When the case In which Edward Dallas, of Tighe’s Hill, Newcastle, Is claiming £10,000 damages from the Broken Kill…

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£10,000 CLAIM Case Against B.H.P. Circuit Court

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 May 1941 · page 6

Further evidence for defendant was given at the Maitland Circuit Court yesterday afternoon In the case In which Edward Dallas,…

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Stabbed to Death on Liner Rating Charged with Murder

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 May 1941 · page 2

An Australian Naval rating was charged at Sydney Central Police Station with having murdered another Australian rating on a liner at…

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Stealing From Cemetery

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 May 1941 · page 2

Some individuals steal because of necessity, and others of an uncontrolled impulse to benefit at the expense of others, but seldom do thieves…

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Verdict for Plaintiff Cross Action In Small Debts Court Motor Collision

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 28 May 1941 · page 4

In the West Maitland Small Debts Court late yesterday afternoon, Eric Keith Jones, farmer and grader of Yenda, near…

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Police Hospital Ball

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 2

Keen "Interest Is "centred" in "the Police Ball, to be held in aid of the Cessnock Hospital, at the Lyceum Hall on Tuesday night, and the…

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Divorce Court Sittings Two Singleton Petitions Alleged Adultery at Muswellbrook

Singleton Argus · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 6

In the Divorce Court at Newcastle yesterday, before the Judge in Divorce (Mr Justice Bonney), George Allan Cameron,…

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Police Court Railway Trespasser

Maitland Mercury · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 5

Keith Poole, 24 and James Wilson [?] Sydney Raymond Carr, 35 were brought before Messrs . E. C. Scarlett and E. M. Debenham , J's P. at the…

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Two Years for Stealing £2000

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 1

Rafael Banunda, 44, motor mechanic, who was convicted of stealing £2QOO which his employer, a market gardener, had hidden in a pillow in…

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Theft From Service Station Batteries and Electrical Gear. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 2

A large quantity of battedies and electrical gear was stolen from Cook's service station at Camden at the week end…

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Young Woman Shot in Quarrel Husband Held for Murder

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 June 1941 · page 2

During a violent quarrel in a house at Clifton Hill (Vic.) early yesterday morning, a young married woman was fatally wounded by a bullet from…

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Punishment for Assault

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 8

One of the punishments for assault used to be cutting off the right hand (Statute 83, Henry VIII, chap. 12) In the reign of Queen Elizabeth a…

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Police Hospital Ball

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 3

The main topic of conversation in Cessnock at the moment is the Police Ball, to be held in aid of the local hospital at the Lyceum Hall to-night…

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The Mock Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 2

The mock court of Martin Place had nothing on Dungog's court. Mr. E. Macken at the mike was Crown prosecutor, with. Mr. Cliff Jones and…

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Five Charged Alleged Unlawful Doctrines

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 4 June 1941 · page 1

SYDNEY Wednesday Harry Could 41 journalist Terrance Gordom 35 a painter Henry Druitt 41 a wharf labourer Robert…

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