General Police Court Matters Traffic Offence and Indecent Behaviour
Amongst general matters dealt with yesterday in the local police court before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., were a straying stock case and a…
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Courts & crime, 1944
1,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 39 of 51
Prosecuting Solicitor Paid Defendant's Fine Incident in Local Police Court
Appearing as counsel for the prosecution, Mr. C. R. Whitfield yesterday paid the fine of the convicted defendant in a straying…
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Death sentence has been passed on Pietro Carusa, former Fascist chief of police in Rome, for collaboration with the Germans, and the surrender of…
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LONDON, Sept 22.—Pietro Caruso, former Fascist Police Chief of Rome, has been executed. He had been sentenced to death…
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John William James, 20 bourer, pleaded guilty at Maitland court to-day to at Woodburn, near. Tarro, on,…
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NEWCASTLE, Mon. - For stealing a quality of tinned food, property of the Defence Department, Henry Bede Mills…
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SYDNEY Monday.—A sentence six years’ imprisonment was Imposed on Frank Allen Pitt, 36, a manufacturer, of Bankstown, in…
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Thomas Craig, 40, was sentenced to three years' for assault with intent to rob at the Quarter Sessions. "Life is too short for one to he stuck in gaol for…
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NEWCASTLE, Tues. —Arthur Raymond Hancock (44), taxi driver and Douglas William Barr (26), labourer, were charged in…
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SYDNEY Tuesday.—At Campsie Court, two youths were committed for trial on a charge of having at Herne Bay on June…
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In the Singleton court on Thursday afternoon, Gordon Joshua Charles Eveleigh, a grazier, of Carrabolla, proceeded against George Venus…
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NEWCASTLE Tues.—Pleading guilty in the police court to-day to having insufficient lawful means of support William George…
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In the court list at Cessnock Police Court this morning Edwin Christopher Slack was listed as an applicant for exemption from military service…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cessnock Police Court. To-day's Sitting. (Before Mr. A. G. Mardwick, S.M.). Carrying Away Liquor in Prohibited Hours
Nicholas Govoronsky was charged with carrying away liquor from the Royal Oak Hotel on Sunday, August 201 at about 12.30 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →All-out Assault on Calais. Great Concentration of Ground and Air Forces. LONDON
An all-out assault against Calais was launched to-day, involving the employment of one of the greatest concentrations of Allied war planes in support of ground operations of the whole war. From early morning a constant stream of R.A.F. bombers streamed over…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Red Army Liberates Estonia. Two Armies Prepare for Final Assault on Riga. LONDON
General Maslinnovic's troops, who yesterday seized Volmar, have advanced to the Gulf of Riga, and are now merging with Marshal Govorov's Estonian Army, which has completely liberated the first Baltic Republic. These two great Russian Armies are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Great Russian Armies Preparing for Final Assault on Riga Russian Vanguards Investing Riga's Suburbs
General Maaslennikova's forces, who yesterday seized Volmar, have advanced to the Gulf of Riga, and are now marching…
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LONDON Sept. 28—An all-oat assault has been launched against die Channel port of Calais, where Canadian troops, after capturing Escalles fortress, four miles to the south-west, have stormed the channel emplacements…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Airborne Division Not Yet Relieved All Out Assault on Siegfried Line. Desperate Positions of Germans in Baltic
A report from London this morning said that although reinforcements and supplies had reached the airborne division which is isolated, their position is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sex Offences Six Years' Gaol for Father
Frank Allen Pitt, 36, was sentenced in Sydney Quarter Sessions to six years' imprisonment for having indecently assaulted his daughters, aged…
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