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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

992 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 50

Death of Magistrate

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 July 1943 · page 2

The death occurred at his home at Rose Bay en Friday last of Walter Frederick Britz (59), special magistrate at Sydney Children's Court and…

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Soldiers Charged with Stealing

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 July 1943 · page 3

CESSNOCK Tues.—Three soldiers, Frank Duggan, Edward Mason, and Hubert Oswald Williams, were before Cessnock…

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Airman Charged With Murder

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 July 1943 · page 5

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA Tuesday.—After a preliminary inquiry into the death of LAC Keith Ernest Dickenson, which…

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Soldiers Charged at Cessnock Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 July 1943 · page 3

A story of four soldiers who were A.W.L. for four months, and lived in a cave, subsisting on stolen…

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Soldiers' Charged at Cessnock Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 July 1943 · page 5

A story of four soldiers who were A.W.L. for tour months, and lived in a cave, subsisting on stolen…

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Stealing Charge

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 July 1943 · page 3

Charged at East Maitland court with having stolen a quantity of tar, oil and cans from the Main Roads Department’s…

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Late Overseas News Big Clash in Sicily Near at Hand Enemy Rushes Up Reinforcements All Attacks Repulsed. Enemy Expects Main Assault Around Tropani and Palermo. Nazis' Threat to Russian Left Flank. Attempts to Break Through Beaten Back. U.S. Bombers Take Toll of Jap. Supply Ships. London

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 July 1943 · page 1

A serious threat to the Russian left flank on the Byelgorod front, where fierce tank battles are raging, was incessantly reported by Moscow…

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Three Soldiers Sentenced

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 2

The three soldiers, Frank Duggan, Edward Mason, and Hubert Williams, who were charged at Cessnock court yesterday with a…

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Serviceman on Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Wed.—James Edward Palmer, an Allied Serviceman, who has been charged with murder, was present at the-City…

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Murder Charge Airman for Trial

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 July 1943 · page 2

After a preliminary inquiry into the death of L.A.C. Keith Ernest Dickenson, which occurred at an Air Force camp last Wednesday, A.C.1…

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Two Months For Stealing

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY Thursday.—For having had in his possession a piece of fruit cake reasonably suspected of having been stolen from a…

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Scone Police Court

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 July 1943 · page 2

Mr. J. McEiroy, P.M., occupied the Bench at the local Police Court on Wednesday last. Police v. Eve Petersen a stranger…

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Good Police Work

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 July 1943 · page 1

Sergeant Booth and Constable Roach of the Cessnock Police did a very fine job of work in rounding up five absent soldier's who had…

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Found Gaol "Tookid" M.l.a.'s Exprerience

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 July 1943 · page 1

Recently imprisoned in Queensland for two days when he refused to give certain information at an inquest on Marjorie Norval, Mr. Barnes, M.L.A…

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Brutal Assault on Two Girls One Not Expected to Recover

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 July 1943 · page 2

While asleep in a detached bungalow in the yard of a boarding-house in Albert Park, Melbourne, early today, Betty Adamson (16), waitress,…

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Bicycle Stealing Case at Cessnock Court

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

George Ball, of Kitchener, was charged at Cessnock Police Court this morning with stealing a bicycle on July 16…

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Riotious Behaviour and Language Charge at Cessnock Police Court

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

Stanley Humphrey P[?] charged at Cessnock Police Court, this morning with riotious behaviour and using…

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Theft at Factory Charge at Guarter Sessions

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 July 1943 · page 2

Hector Thomas, Lachian [?] win, 28, a labourer, pleaded [?] guilty at Maitland quarter sessions to having at Hexham [?]…

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116 Bags of Lucerne Seed Stealing Charge Against Two Men

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 July 1943 · page 3

When charged at Maitland Quarter Sessions to-day, two accused each exhausted his right by challenging eight Jurors. The…

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Soldier's Pitiable Plight Magistrate's Sympathetic Action Solicitor Cleaves Assists Friendless Man

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

At Cessnock Police Court this morning, a soldier of the present war, suffering from shellshock and invalided from…

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