Mr. Ward Would Gaol Profiteers
SYDNEY Monday—The Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward) would gaol profiteers without the option of a fine…
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Courts & crime, 1942
1,029 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 52
Fined For Assault Charge Against Soldier
Alvern Monnex, a soldier, pleaded' guilty at - Weft Maitland Police Court. to-day to Having at East Maitland unlawfully…
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John Henry Lawier, 29, and Cecil Lantry, 32/ were charged at West Maitland Police Court to-day with having at Morpeth…
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The Supreme Court to-day refused to order the release-from internment of Mrs. Adela Constantia Mary Walsh (formerly Pankhurst)…
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During the night the store of Mr. E. Champion in Parallel-st., West Maitland was broken into and a quantity of cigarettes,…
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James Henry McHarg, a . soldiers pleaded guilty at West Maitland Police Court yesterday afternoon to having at West…
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NEWCASTLE Tuesday.— For stealing a gallon of petrol Frederick Telford (41), crane driver, was fined £5 or ten days in the…
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SYDNEY Tuesday.—At Paddington Court Charles Oliver [?], 20, a desert from the Army, was sentenced to six…
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John Henry, lawier, 29, labourer who pleaded not guilty, at West Maitland Police Court, and reserved his defence, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Police Court (Before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.m.) Indecent Behaviour
On a charge of indecent behaviour. Joseph Hobson was fined 5/, with 8/ costs. Sergeant Griffiths said that at 10.50…
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MELBOURNE Tuesday.— A young woman, believed to a Gladys Hosking, 20, of Park-st., Parkville. possibly a university student, was found murdered this morning in cir[?] similar in some respects to the two crimes being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bomb Hero Now Faces Court Martial George Cross Man’s Lapse (Australia Associated Press)
LONDON May 18.—Captain Robert Davies, of the Royal Engineers, who personally removed the bomb form St. Paul’s Cathedral London and was awarded the George Cross in 1940 plended guilty at a court martial to receiving…
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MELBOURNE Wednesday—A Soldier, aged 30, was last night charged with rape after an attack on a middle-aged woman in…
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SYDNEY Wed—Richard James Fitzgerald 51, secretary, was Sentenced at the Quarter Sessions, to 12 months imprisonment on a…
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Charles Oliver Cuthel, 20, a deserter, from the Army, was sentenced at Paddington to six months gaol on two charges of stealing, sentences…
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MELBOURNE Thurs.—Shortly after midnight this morning Victor Andrew Kelly, 40, attacked his wife with a razor, cutting her…
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GOULBURN Friday.— At the Goulburn Police Court, George Richard Seely. middle aged was remanded until June 22 when…
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On a charge of having, while armed, assaulted Ella Joyce McDonald and robbed her of a cash box valued at 17/6. John Little (35),…
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SYDNEY Sat.— Mr. N. H. Connolly, president of the United Victuallers’ Association, stated last night that within the last…
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CESSNOCK, Saturday—The increasing number of accidents, some fatal, on the streets at night has led to a warning…
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