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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

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Goods in Custody Colliery Employee Charged

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 27 July 1943 · page 3

William Henry Mainwaring was charged, at Cessnock Police Court this morning, with having chaff bags in his…

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Cessnock District Court. Brothers-in-law at Variance

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 27 July 1943 · page 3

At the Cessnock District Court yesterday, before Judge Nield, Leonard Yeatman proceeded against Harold Powell…

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Goods Suspected of Being Stolen Case at Cessnock Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 27 July 1943 · page 3

Frederick Foster, James Young, James Thomas McNabb, James H. S. McNabb and Clive Shape appeared at…

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No Change in Allies' Attitude to Italy "Unconditional Surrender" Stands Mussolini Reported to Be Under Police Protection. London

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 July 1943 · page 2

The American United Press says reliable sources in Madrid have reported that Mussolini and other Fascist leaders and Ministers are at present under police protection at a villa believedly in the Rome area…

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Late Overseas News Beginning of End Italy As Well As Axis. Opinion in London. Will There Be Attempt to Get Italy From War? Italian Troops Being Recalled From Puppet States Fascist Leaders Under Police Protection Ominous Reports From Berlin Has Hitler Returned to Capital? Axis Position Critical in Sicily and Near Orel

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 July 1943 · page 1

The fate of the German troops in Sicily depends on the railway lines. One leads to France through Genoa and Rome, and the other through…

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Assault on Orel Expected Hourly ANOTHER " STALINGRAD " in the Offing

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 July 1943 · page 2

It is fully expected in Moscow that the Russians will capture the Germans' last retreat from Orel. There is another "Stalingrad" in the offing for the Germans in Orel…

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Lucerne Seed Theft Sentence of 2½ Years’ Gaol Imposed

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 July 1943 · page 3

George Richard Sealey, 34. tiler who was found guilty at Maitland quarter sessions last week of receiving 16 days and 48…

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Theft of Steak

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 July 1943 · page 1

NEWCASTLE Thurs.— For stealing two pounds of skirting steak at Newcastle abattoir Raymer Gordon Brown (50), labourer,…

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Two Men Charged Bank Book and Withdrawal Slip

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 July 1943 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Thursday.—Two men appeared in the police court to-day on charges of alleged attempt at bank frauds…

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District Court Verdict Against Hotelkeeper

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 29 July 1943 · page 3

SINGLETON Thurs.— At the district court at Singleton yesterday, Arthur Albert Carter, of Sydney, claimed from Keith Phillip…

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Italian Sentenced

Maitland Mercury · Friday 30 July 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE Friday — Eduardo Sim one (26). Italian officer and prisoner of war. has been sentenced lo six months’ special…

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Cessnock District Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 July 1943 · page 1

Thomas Noel Pembleton, of Cessnock, appealed against an order obtained by his wife, Lucy Pembleton, from the Children's Court, at Cessnock…

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Cessnock's Big Saturday Court 347 Miners to Appear

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 30 July 1943 · page 1

The Commonwealth Deputy Crown Solicitor (Mr. Watson) said summonses have been issued against 347 miners who…

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Night Manoeuvre In. Gully Local Timber Worker Caught Wife "Redhanded Petitions for Divorce in District Court

Singleton Argus · Friday 30 July 1943 · page 4

Account of shadowing his wife from a dance hall, a vigil and manouevre In a gully, and the "red-handed" catch of his…

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Treacherous Assault

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1943 · page 1

PERTH Sat.— Ernest Alfred Watson, of Guilford, offered three soldiers a lift into town on Thursday night, and woke up on…

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347 Miners in Court Case at Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1943 · page 3

CESSNOCK, Sat.—The grounds at the Cessnock Court House this morning very much resembled a pit-top meeting. Practically the…

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Stole From Flats They Guarded Two Women Police Trailed

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 August 1943 · page 4

Two women detectives attached to Scotland Yard were at West London Police Court recently sentenced to 12 months'…

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Industrial Magistrate's Court

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

In the Industrial Magistrate's Court at Cessnock this morning the following cases which were set down for hearing were adjourned to August 10:—…

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Stealing Betas from Aberadare Central Colliery. Charge at Cessnock Police Court

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

Rowland Underwood Alley, an ostler, employed, at Aberdare Central colliery, was charged, at Cessnock Police…

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Mailbag Theft

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 3 August 1943 · page 2

Perth detectives are investigating the robbery of a mailbag which contained £4000 in bank notes. The bag was dispatched from Minginew, 227 miles north…

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