Car Driver Charged Alleged Negligent Driving
Ivor Alfred Bristol who is in camp at Rutherford, pleaded not guilty at West Maitland Police Court this afternoon to charges…
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Courts & crime, 1942
1,029 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 52
Arrested After Intense Police Vigil Man Who Attacked 100 Women
A man who attacked 100 Brooklyn (U.S.A.) women in four months has been arrested after an intense police vigil…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Shoot Four German Soldiers Riot in a Brussels Cinema
German military police shot four German soldiers on the spot after a riot in a Brussels cinema which was showing a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sentenced for Hold-up
SYDNEY Tuesday.—For his part in the armed hold-up at the Pacific Garage, Manly, some weeks ago, Edward Patrick…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Theft of Tobacco from Truck
At least two Muswellbrook businessmen will have to wait another month for their tobacco Supplies, their quota for April-May…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Alleged Assault and Robbery. Heavy Bail Fixed
A sensational occurrence in the vicinity of Brentwood-street on Sunday evening had its sequel in the Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Timbering at Pelton Mine Court Approves New Special Rule
The Court of Coal Mines Regulation, president over by Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M. for the determination of an objection by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Vagrant to Gaol
CASTLE, MONDAY.— [?] guilty In the Police [?] day to being an idle and [?] person without suffi [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sold More Than Quota of Cosmetics Must Pay Ration Fines or Go to Gaol
Two directors of a cosmetics company in London have been ordered to pay big fines within 28 days or go to gaol for three months…
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SCONE Tuesday.—Police-Sergeant G. Robertson, who for the three years has been stationed in Scone, will be leaving…
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NEWCASTLE Wednesday — Pleading guilty to three charges of larceny, Francis Beagan (20), labourer, was in the Police Court…
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For having assaulted a woman in a brownout, Leslie Stephens, textile worker, of Coburg, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment with hard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vegetables Destroyed Gaol Governor’s Complaint
Two tons of vegetables had been lost as the result of water pouring in on the gaol farm through a drain which council…
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On Thursday last before (Mr. G. J. Johnson, P.M., James A. Connolly Thornton, pleaded guilty ex-parte to falsely representing himself as a traveller under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Amazing Evidence in Perth Court Four Charged with Conspiracy
PERTH, Friday.—Amazing evidence was given at the Perth Court when the trial opened of four persons charged with having conspired together to assist within the Commonwealth of Australia the armed forces of Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Welcomed Home By Gaol Staff
At the smoke concert following the monthly meeting of the total branch of the Public Sesvire Association, held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court (May 7, Before Mr. J. McEiroy, P.M.)
James Roy Papworth was called on a.charge of driving an unregistered vehicle on March 28. He did not appear and the case was heard…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Charged with Murdering Husband Case Collapses
In Cunnamulla (Q.) Court yesterday morning, Mrs. Ethel Maud Tochey, former hostess at the Hotel Australia, Sydney, was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trouble Over a Dog. Young Man Convicted for Assault
At the Merriwa Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. C., Pickup, P.M., Cecil Earl George McBeth proceeded against Keith James Cronin for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Horrible Atrocities in Hungary Murder and Rapine
LONDON May 7—A Hungarian Government memorandum describes Hungarian atrocities as “the greatest known in the human race for 1000 years.” Almost every Serb in Tapola was murdered…
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