Court Martial Clears Major
A report from Melbourne says that after a hearing extending over several-days, a court martial found Major Robert Alexander Lea Wright,…
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Courts & crime, 1943
992 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 50
Children and Gambling Machines. Police Take Action
The Chief Secretary, Mr. J. M. Baddefey, M.L.A., revealed that the police were active in suppressing pin table machines and other gambling…
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NEW YORK April 1— The united Nations, after the war, should strip the [?] aeroplane [?] and arena an International…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Freed on Murder Charge
BRISBANE Saturday.—At the Circuit. Court at Dalby a, police constable. Michael Fiynn. 29. was found not guilty of a charge, of…
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NEWCASTLE Mon.—For stealing a nine gallons keg of beer, Wallace Hancock (27) labourer, was fined . £7 or 14. days in the…
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Provost-Sergeant Merry Campbell was acquitted by a codrimarital of all four charges of assault made against him. He…
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After deliberating for just over an hour a jury in the Circuit Court at Dalby (Q.) brought in a verdict of not guilty in favour of Michael…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charge of Theft From Wrecked Steamer Man Committed for Trial
Under a section of the Crimes Act, which provides for penal servitude for 14 years, Isaac Harvey, 52, was charged at the Wyong Court with…
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NEWCASTLE Tuesday - The hearing was resumed in the Police Court to-day of the case in which William Henry Thomas…
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BRISBANE Tuesday.—Alfred Alexander Archibald Dance 58 baker, and Thomas Quentin Henbaker 28 a soldier were sentenced…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Refused Enrolment. Ex-student Challenges University. Federal Government Intervenes in Court Action. Sydney
The Commonwealth Government today intervened when a case in which Robert Bruce King (18), a Broken Hill High School ex-pupil, is…
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LONDON April 7 —Helen Smith 023, of Grimsby, was sentenced to three months imprisonment under a new Defence…
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SYDNEY Thursday—At the Quarter Sessions 'a sentence of 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour was passed on Clifton James Harvey, 31. soldier…
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KURRI Thursday.—At Kurri Police Court Charles Burnie Watkins proceeded against Jim Ferris on a charge of assault at Sawyer…
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SINGLETON Thursday—Before Judge Neild, at the District Court yesterday afternoon and last night, Harry Langsford, of Dunoily…
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Alexander Gordon Graham, 18, was charged at Kurri Kurri Police Court on Wednesday with, on April 6, having stolen clothes to the value of…
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Charles B. Watkin proceeded again st Jim Ferris, at Kurri Kurri Police Court on Wednesday, on a charge of assault at Sawyer's Gully on March…
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GRAFTON Friday—Judge Starkey, at Grafton Quarter Sessions, sentenced William Joseph Daniel Allen, farmer, of Calliope, who…
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Constable 1st Class Mackie arrived at Tea Gardens last Saturday to take charge of the local Police district. Mr. Mackie was succeeded a Greta by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wrongful Use of Identity Card Two Months' Gaol
"This offence is an exceedingly grave one; you borrowed your brother-in-law's identity card and used it for getting work at different…
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