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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

992 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 17 of 50

Muswellbrook Police Court. Yesterday's Cases. Alleged Failure to Enrol

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 2

Captain W. J. Kingsmill (Area Offcer) proceeded against Arthur Jeffree on a charge of having failed to enrol for military service…

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Alleged Murder Confession

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 1

Seventeen-year-oid William Wynier has confessed to having pushed two boys to their deaths from a 175ft. rock near Golden (Colorado)…

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Habitual Criminal Sentenced To Three Years

Maitland Mercury · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Friday—At the Quarter Sessions this afternoon John Stanley Biyton 34. a labourer who was convicted of…

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Remand in Boy Murder Case Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 2

A remand of a fortnight was granted at a Sydney court to day when Lionel Roy Barlow, aged 24, a soldier, appeared on a…

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Late News Macarthur To Get Aircraft and Equipment "Not Only to Replace Losses." Washington Says No Evidence Japs. Poised for Assault on Australia. R.A.F.'s Non-stop Offensive. Allies' Continued Pressure on Tunisia. Montgomery Prepares Before" He Hits Again. Washington

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 April 1943 · page 1

The Secretary of War (Mr. Stimson) has promised an increasing flow of aircraft and other military supplies to General MacArthur…

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Three Years’ Gaol

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 April 1943 · page 4

NEWCASTLE Saturday—John Stanley Blyton, 34, labourer, was sentenced to three years’ Imprisonment (concurrent sentences…

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20 Year’s Gaol For Trotsky’s Murderer

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 April 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK Aril 17.—Jacques Mornard allas Frank Jackson, murderer of Leon Trotaky has been sentenced in Mexico to 20 years…

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Women in Court Threatening Words Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 April 1943 · page 2

Pleading guilty to having used threatening words to Sylvia Marie Reynolds, of West Maitland on April 13, Myrtle Garland,…

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Six Months’ Gaol for Stealing

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 April 1943 · page 3

CESSNOCK Tuesday.—William James King, 18. of Cessnock, was sentenced by Mr. G. J. Johnstone, PM. at the Cessnock Police Court…

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Assault and Robbery Charge

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 April 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE. Tues.—In the Quarter Sessions to-day. Roy Marley (33). wharf labourer, pleaded not guilty to a charge of…

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Denman Small Debts Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 April 1943 · page 4

At the Denman Small Debts Court on Friday, Hobart Stanley Cox, represented by Mr. E. W. Doust, proceedceeded against Shale and Oil…

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Youth Sentenced to Six Months' Hard Labour Stole Kempe's Lorry With Goods

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 April 1943 · page 3

William James King, 1[?], was before Cessnock Police Court a short time ago on a charge of stealing and abandoning a car and…

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Bound Over on Stealing Charges

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 April 1943 · page 3

KURRI Wednesday—At Kurri Police Court to-day Alexander Gordon Graham 18 pleaded guilty to five charges of stealing…

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Murder Charge Follows Train Birth

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 April 1943 · page 1

Margaret Jane Murray (23) was committed for trial on a charge of murder at an inquest yesterday on a male child. It was stated that a…

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Death Sentence for Policeman's Murder

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 21 April 1943 · page 2

After a retirement of an hour and 40 minutes, a jury at Melbourne Central Criminal Court found Norman Morris Searle (25), guilty of the…

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Prismatic Compass Police Seeking Information

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 April 1943 · page 2

The West Maitland police was seeking information in regarded to a prismatic compass stories from a car three weeks ago…

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Sentenced to Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 22 April 1943 · page 6

After a retirement of an hour and 40 minutes, a jury at Central Crim[?] Court found Norman Morris [?] 20, guilty of the murder of…

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A Mistaken Murder

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 22 April 1943 · page 6

Giving evidence in the Home Hill Police Court, 60 miles south of Townsville, Detective Constable O'Toole gave some startling evidence…

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Stealing Charges at Kurri Youth Sound Over

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 22 April 1943 · page 3

Alexander Gordon Graham, 18. pleaded guilty to five charges of stealing, at Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday…

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Police Locate Beer 'Plant"

Singleton Argus · Thursday 22 April 1943 · page 3

Melbourne's licensing police last week found 19,800 bottles of beer at a big sly-grog depot in Melbourne, the Minister for Customs (Senator…

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