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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,098 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 55

Police Patriotic Races Dungog's Great Day Good Races Huge Crowd

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 29 July 1941 · page 3

Never in the history of Dungog has there been such a big crowd on the local racecourse as was gathered together on Saturday when the Police…

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Fair Rents Court Increase Granted For Tobacconist Shop Maitland Case

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 July 1941 · page 5

Rates. Insurance, sewer installation and erection of a cantilever cost Mrs. M. B. Shepherd no less than £250 in the past, year in…

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Alleged Theft of Jewellery Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 July 1941 · page 6

Charles Augustus Jacobs. 43, chef was charged at Central Police Court with having stolen jewellery valued at £700 from the home of Jacob…

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French Communists Sentenced (A.a.p. Service.) LONDON, July 29

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 July 1941 · page 2

A Madrid report says that a French Naval Court tried many French Communists at Toulon for spreading defeatism among the French Army and…

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Police Transfers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 5

Constable W. Crotty, of the West Maitland police, has been notified of his transfer to Grenfell, [?] Constable Kidd, at present at No. 2…

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Blame on Police

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 4

"The liquor law to-day is the home of graft and corruption for all concerned," said Mr. R. N. Beale (Ind., South Coast), in the Legislative…

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Hospital Tennis Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 6

To all intents and purposes the tennis court at the hospital for the use of the staff and their friends has been completed. The voluntary…

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Muswellbrook District Court Claim for £150/19/6 Installation of Hot Water Service at Local Hotel

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 1

In the District Court yesterday, before His Honor, Judge Nield, William Roy Thompson and others, trading' as Thompson Bros., claimed the sum of £150/19/6 from Raymond Hall Harrison for work claimed to have been carried out in…

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Police Marking of Cars

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 2 August 1941 · page 8

Following a complaint by the N,R.M.A. regarding the police method of marking parked cars in ord to check their period of stay in one…

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West Maitland Court

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 2 August 1941 · page 4

This month the regular court days at West Maitland are to revert to Monday's but: as Monday next is a bank holiday, there will be no court…

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Police Pursuit Stirring Five Miles Chase SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 2 August 1941 · page 7

Women and children, with other pedestrians, jumped for safety last ni[?] when a police patrol car pursued a man in another car for five…

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Murder Police!

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 8

The policeman rang the bell and immediately the piano-playing ceased and a young woman opened the door and asked, “What do you want?”…

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Soldier Charged with Theft Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 1

In the Police Court to-day Leo Clarence Bartlett 133 soldier was charged that at Newcastle on July 23 [?] stole £32/8/11 property of…

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Assault and Malicious Damage. Soldier Heavily Fined Case at Cessnock Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 5

Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M., at Cessnock Police Court to-day, Bernard Stephen Buckman, a soldier from Greta…

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Mother on Murder Charge Perth

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 1

A. woman was committed for trial on a charge of having murdered, her six-years old daughter with an axe She is Marian Ruth Sterue Ellerby…

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Local Police on Check on Illicit Petrol

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 4

Since - midnight last night members of the N.S.W. Police Force in this district have been policing the new petrol law. All cars…

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Mother Charged with Murder

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 August 1941 · page 1

With the head shockingly battered, apparently with an axe, the body of Colleen Marigold Ellerby, 6, was found in bed at her home on a small…

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Traffic Court Exceeded Speed Limit

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 August 1941 · page 5

Breaches of the traffic regulations formed the main business at East Maitland Police Court to-day The traffic patrol had several…

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Stories Differ Police "Speedo" and Carrier's Recording

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 August 1941 · page 5

Conflicting stories of the speedometers In a police patrol car and a carrier's lorry were heard at the. East Maitland…

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Dungog Police Court Prisoner's Outburst

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 August 1941 · page 2

At Dungog Police Court on Tuesday, before Messrs. J. T. Williams and G. W. Hunt, J's.P., a man named Leslie Roy Howell, 48, was charged with…

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