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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1942

1,029 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 52

Co-ordination of Duties Police and N.E.S. WARDENS

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 March 1942 · page 1

About forty N.E.S. Wardens, including Aberdeen representatives, police and fire brigade officers and Boy Scouts, were present at the…

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Address on A.R.P. to Town's Wardens. Maitland Police Sergeant on Various Points

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 March 1942 · page 1

On Wednesday night, Police Sergeant Wright, of Maitland, who has made a special study of A.R.P. work, and who is at present…

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New Type of Theft

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 March 1942 · page 2

The N.R.M.A. has received complaints of thefts of headlamp masks. As a means of making such thefts more difficult the…

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Alleged Assault on Boy and Girl Police Searching for Man Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1942 · page 2

Police are conducting a search for a man who it was alleged, criminally assaulted a 11-year-old girl, and, later, an eight-year-old boy…

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Gaoled for Assault on U.s. Sailor

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1942 · page 4

Sentencing three men for having assaulted an Ameriran sailor with beer bottles, Mr. Justice Martin said at the Criminal Court, Melbourne,…

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For Trial on Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 March 1942 · page 4

WENTWORTH Monday. — John Campbell Condon has been committed for trial on a charge of having murdered Frank…

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21 Days' Gaol Man Claimed to Be Frightening Glennie's Creek Women

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 March 1942 · page 2

In the local Police Court this coining, before Mr. E. J. Forrest. J.P.,! Martin Allen (60) labourer, was setenced to 21 days hard labour in…

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Local Police Court

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 2

Mr. F. A. Spence occupied the Bench at the local Police Court on Saturday. Ernest Maguire, a stranger, was…

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Alleged Assault

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 3

Ernest Schmidt, 20, was charged at the Maitland Quarter Sessions to-day with having at Cessnock on November 10…

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Fined for Petrol Theft

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Tuesday — For stealing four gallons of petrol and a gallon of duco thinner George Barlow (25), lorry driver,…

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U.S. Official Charged . “Communistic Records”

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 4

WASHINGTON March 30— The Dies Committee Investigating. un-American activities has charged at feast 35 high officials…

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No Court To-day

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 31 March 1942 · page 2

Owing to this being the fifth Tuesday in the month there was no sitting of the Cessnock Police Court to-day…

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Miners’ Court Sitting

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 3

In West Maitland Court to-day the heating was continued of the objection lodged by the manager of Pelton Colliery against a new…

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Winners In Police Art Union

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 2

NEWCASTLE Wed.—Winners in the Police War Fund Art Union, which was drawn at the City Hall, were: No. 10668, W…

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Police Chief On Dereliction Charge

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 6

PERTH Wednesday — Charged with dereliction of duty. Police Inspector J. D. Cowie, until recently of the C.I.B. at Broome,…

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Nazi Espionage Reported Brazilian Police Discovery

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 1

A vast network of Nazi espionage in South America is reported to have been discovered as a result of investigations by the Brazilian police…

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It's a Crime to Think in Japan Ruthless Methods Adopted by "Police"

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 April 1942 · page 3

Throughout the length and breadth of Japan, mysterious little men creep in and out of bare and Geisha houses, sidle up to people…

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Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 4

At the Merriwa Police Court on Friday last, before Mr. J. R. Telfer, J.P., Andrew Frederick Hunt was charged with using indecent language…

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Alleged Theft of Lucerne Seed

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 2

John Henry Lawler, 29, a labourer was charged at Glebe Police Court with -fraying between February 21 and 28 at Morpeth,…

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Aberdare Assault Charge Sentence of Three Years

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 3

Ernest Schmidt, 20, was sentenced yesterday at Maitland Quarter Sessions to three years' imprisonment after he had been found guilty of having…

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