Made a Bonfire of £1200 in Notes Police Search for Boys
Detectives interviewed hundreds of boys in nearly every school in the western suburbs yesterday, in Search for boys who,…
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Courts & crime, 1942
1,029 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 52
Grenades Hurled at Nazi Police Entry Gained After Fierce Gun Battle
A message from Vichy states that gendarmes and.German police met a hail of grenades when they raided a terrorist nest at Houdain, near…
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NEWCASTLE Thursday.—For stoaling tools valued at £2, Fred Bennett (42), varnisher, was fined £2 of four days in the…
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MELBOURNE Thursday.—The police have not yet been able to establish the identity of a woman an whose nude body was found…
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Mr. W. McElroy occupied the Bench at the Scone Police Court on Wednesday last. COMPANY FINED FOR NOT…
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CANBERRA Friday.— Patrick Holger Sparre, 22, a soldier, was sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude at Canberra Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Berrima Gaol Gutted By Five
MOSS VALE Friday.—The old Service Gaol which was being used to store Government papers has been gutted by fire [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged Assault and Robbery. Two Men Committed for Trial
At the Muswellbrook Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. G. McElroy, P.M., two soldiers, William Alfred Summers (27) and Cecil…
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In the municipal valuation appeal court, the hearing of an appeal by the Estate of the late S. Harris was adjourned by consent. The Estate was…
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The quarterly report by Sergeant J. Griffith was submitted at the quarterly meeting of the Licensing Court held yesterday. The report stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Convicted on Larceny Charge. Theft of 27 Spark Plugs
Before Mr. W. J. McElroy, P.M., at the Police Court yesterday, Norman Jackson Hogg pleaded not guilty to a charge of larceny,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Made a Bonfire of £1200 in Notes Police Search for Boys
Detectives interviewed hundreds of boys in nearly every school in the western suburbs this week, in search for boys who, they believe,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leonski Sentenced to Death Murder of Three Women in Melbourne
MELBOURNE Sat. — Private Edward Joseph Leonski, 24, American soldier, was last night found guilty of the murder of three women in Melbourne in May and sentenced by a general court-marital to death by hanging…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers Charged with Assault
Two soldiers, William Alfred Summers (27), and Cecil Joseph O’srien (33) were charged at Muswellbrook court with having…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bicycle Theft
NEWCASTLE Monday —Frederick George Sheridan (35) labourer was in the police Court, today sentenced. to two months…
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SINGLETON Monday.—Leonard Phillips and John Francis Connelly, two soldiers, Were charged with having in their…
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MUSWELLBROOK Monday — At the police court before Mr. W.J. McElroy P[?] Jackson Hoks pleaded not guilty…
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At Newtown Court on Friday, Alfred Henry Singleton, who escaped from Newtown Courthouse some weeks ago by setting fire to his cell,…
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NEWCASTLE Monday. — On Saturday evening John Neville Corke (18). labourer, visited the Exchange Hotel in Hunter-st.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cases Adjourned Alleged Theft of Lucerne Seed
A case against George Richard Sealey of having at Morpeth on of about February 22 , stolen a quantity of Lucerne seed valued…
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