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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,098 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 55

Soldiers Charged Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 1

In the Police Court to-day, Kenneth Alexander Hamilton (26), Harold Oliver Coulter (39), and George Knight (28), soldiers, were charged…

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Youths Charged Offensive Behaviour Cessnock Case Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 8

Three youths were charged with offensive behaviour at the Cessnock Court to-day. They were William Henry…

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Nurse Charged Pleaded Guilty To Perjury at Newcastle Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 1

In the Quarter Sessions to-day Helen Hughes 52, nurse, pleaded guilty to a charge of penury. The indictment set out that in the…

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Police Station Sergeant On Holidays SINGLETON

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 2

Constable C. G. Laycock has returned to duty at the Singleton Police Station, Sergt, W. G. Jones is on holidays and Const. J. Veney is on…

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“Headin’ ’Em” Seven Men Charged Maitland Court

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 5

Seven men who appeared at West Maitland Court to-day on a charge of playing an illegal game, “headln’ ’em” to the…

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Four Soldiers Charged Actual Bodily Harm Assault Newcastle, and Robbery

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 1

Four soldiers were In the dock at Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day charged with two offences. They were William John…

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Police Carnival

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 2

The New South Wales Police Carnival takes place at the Newcastle' showground, Broadmeadow, on February 22. The whole of the…

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Bail in £100 Chemist Charged NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 1

Charged in the. Police Court: to-day with having on January 17 and:-January 24 used an instrument with intent, to procure abortion, Thomas James…

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Bound Over Youth Charged With Housebreaking SYDNEY, Tuesday. '

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 1

Ronald Wilson (18) pleaded guilty the Quarter Sessions to-day to four charges of housebreaking in "Eastwood- Only articles of a trifling…

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Police Raid Hotels Three Licensees Fined One Conviction Recorded

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 4

The second conviction against Clarence A. Smith, license of tie Metropolitan Hotel, was recorded at the West Maitland…

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Lively Incident in South Avenue. Sequel in Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 1

Before C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at Cessnock Police Court yesterday, William Henry Broadley, 20, of Miller-street, Robert Leslie, 19, of North…

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Locked Up Jury In Assault Case Soldiers Charged Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1941 · page 1

After being locked up all night the Jury In the case against four soldiers, charged In the Quarter Suasions, returned to court this…

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“Bad Record” imprisonment For Theft NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1941 · page 1

“Yon have a bad record,” said Mr. scoble, S.M., in the Police Court today to Eddie Kafer (22). labourer whom he sentenced to sis months’…

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Refused Oath Jehovah’s Witness Goes To Gaol NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1941 · page 1

Gordon Stewart Edwards, a Jehovah’s Witness, who last month was sentenced to three months imprisonment by Mr. Soane, S.M., for…

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Police Carnival Rodeo To Be A Feature

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1941 · page 4

Several additional features, including a rodeo at night, were decided upon by a meeting of the committee yesterday for the police carnival st…

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Cache of Amis 100 Parisian Police Arrested , (A.A.P Service) PARIS, February 4

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1941 · page 8

The. Gestapo arrested [?]Parisian policemen after the discovery of a cache of arms in the Are de Triomphe…

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Raymond Terrace Police Court (Before Mr. Solling, P. M.)

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 1

J. J. Blundell pleaded guilty to havingn a faulty handbrake on his motor lorry. The police said the footbrakes were in good condition. He was fined £1/12/ and…

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To Be-restored Back Leave To Police

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 6

The Chief Secretary (Mr Tonking) announced last night that leave which was voluntarily given' up by the police to assist in war work will…

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Fought After a Dance Story Told in Court

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 1

Charged with offensive behaviour on. January 27, John Wesley Fenwick, of Prince-street, East Maitland, and Merles Edwards, of Day-street, East…

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Gipsies Charged Offensive Behaviour Newcastle Court Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 February 1941 · page 5

Two Gypsies—a man and his wife, appeared before Mr. J. B. Scoble in the Police Court to-day on charges of offensive behaviour…

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