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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

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Assault Charge Part Heard Case Completed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 5

The case in which Leon Wallace charged Stanley Andrews with assault was concluded at Cessnock Police…

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Argument at the Crossroads. Insuiting Words Alleged. Sequel in Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 1

In the Police Court yesterday, Leslie Albert Weidmann, farmer and grazier, proceeded against Albert George Walker, sewerage drainer and laborer, on a…

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Council Employee Charged With Driving Under the Influence

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 1

At Cessnock Police Court on Tuesday, afternoon Frank Hickey, an employee of Keareley Shire Council, was…

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Fatal Stabbing at School Two Negro Girls Charged

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 2

Two 12-year-o!d negro girls, after overhearing a schoolmate's report to their teacher that they had stolen school supplies, fatally stabbed…

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Common Assault Charges. Woman Fined 2/-. To Pay Costs Amounting To £30/10/6

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 2

The hearing of the charges of common assault, adjourned from the April sitting of the Muswellbroolt Police Court, was concluded yesterday…

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Man and Wife Want 8-Room House Court Application "Unreasonable''

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 4

At Paddington Court, Mr. Oram, S.M., said it seemed utterly unreasonable for a man and his wife to come to Court and…

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Ownership of Calf Cattle Stealing Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 May 1944 · page 3

The hearing was continued at the West Maitland court to-day of the charge against Claude Thomas Lelper. 33, dairyman, of…

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Ownership of Calf Cattle Stealing Charge

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 3

The hearing was continued at the West Maitland court yesterday afternoon of the charge against Claude Thomas lei per 38…

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Police Report on Gambling

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 3

Cessnock Council has been notified that the contents of the police report on gambling in Cessnock could not be published. It was the policy of the…

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Negligent Driving Charge. Case Dismissed at Cessnock Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 3

At Cessnock Police Court this morning Thomas Henry Briggs was charged with negligent driving…

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Failing to Stop on Left of Road. Information Dismissed at Cessnock Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 3

At Cesnock Police Court this morning William John James was charged with not stopping a bus close to the left of the road…

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Murder Story Disproved

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—It was alleged at the Quarter Sessions today, that, Bernard Shaw, 24, a waiter, had claimed .tie Was the…

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Cowardly Assault Man with Fractured Spine As Victim

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 2

"When an American naval man recovering from a fractured spine was knocked unconscious in a hotel bar by Robert Leslie Cousins,…

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Shots Fired by U.S. POLICE Wharf Incident

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 4

BRISBANE Wed—When water Side workers refused to submit to search at the [?] when they [?] work shots were dried into…

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Stealing Charge Adjourned

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 18 May 1944 · page 2

After hunter evidence at West Maitland Police Court to-day the case in which Clando the mass leaper 33 dairyman is…

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Police Court

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 3

For having behaved in an indecent [?] In High-street last night George [?] was fined [?]…

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Sentenced For “Cold-Blooded” Act

Maitland Mercury · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY Friday.—When be sentenced Bernard Shaw, or Cornford 24, to two-years’ gaol for bigamy Judge Stoddert in…

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Driving Under Influence. Charge at Kurri Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 3

At Kurri Kurri Police Court on Wednesday Eric N. Shaw pleaded not guilty to a charge of having driven a motor lorry while under the influence of…

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Stowaway Brides In Court

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1944 · page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19.— The two Australian war brides, Mrs. Margaret .Blair, 24, and Mrs. Olga Calderdale,, 22, who stowed…

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To-day’s Leader : Do We Grumble? Navy Bombards Japs at Wakde Assault Carried Across The Aerodrome (From Our Correspondent)

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1944 · page 1

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA Saturday—Alled forces which landed earlier in the week on Wakde Island, la Dutch New Guinea ares, have earned their assault across the aerodrome, and are now engaging the remaining enemy…

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