Story of Face-slapping, Man-handling Told at Court Martial Soldier Guilty of Assault on Females Mother Objected to Engaged Daughter's Company
Singleton Argus · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 4
Lilting strains of music had not long drifted from their ears after an evening tripping the light fantastic, when a face-slapping and man-handling interlude took the place of the evening's earlier enjoyment, and this developed into something…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Children Abandoned Allegation by Police
Singleton Argus · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 2
According to the police prosecutor in Adelaide Police Court, Mrs Martha Ellen Salter. 23, of Hope Valley, near Adelaide, abandoned her three…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Theft of Blanket
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 3
NEWCASTLE Tuesday—John Walls (57), labourer, shared a room in a city residential, and when leafing took with him a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Husband On Assault Charge
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 1
NEWCASTLE Tues. —Harold Stanmore Gilbert (28), cleaner, was charged in the Police Court to-day with having assaulted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Children's Cases in "Open" Court
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 2
"State Cabinet has decided that cases where persons are charged with violence to children should be heard in open court," said the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gaol Sentence Over Beer Theft
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 1
Sentence of six months' imprisonment was imposed on Robert Fitzpatrick, 36, wharf labourer, when he was convicted at Central Police Court…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaol for Tax Offences
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 6
SYDNEY Wednesday.— Two men were sentenced to six weeks’ gaol in the Central Summons Court for tax offences…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Theft of Petrol
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 3
At the Newcastle Police Court on Tuesday before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, Norman S. Sandeman, 39, of Salt Ash was charged with the theft of 28 gallons of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Complaints of Melon Stealing
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 3
Complaints have been made by several farmers that raids are being made on their melon patches. They hope that any…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Clerk Charged with Fraud
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 3
NEWCASTLE Thursday— Charged in the Police Court today with having fraudulently converted to his own use, a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soviet Report on Murder of Poles More Than 11,000 Corpses In Military Uniforms (Australian Associate Press)
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 January 1944 · page 2
LONDON Jan 26— more than 11000 corpses clad [?] Polish military uniforms were discovered in graves 10 [?] from Smolensk, along the highway to Vitebsk and in the area of the kalyn according to report by a special…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Acquits Pilot
The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 4
An R.A.A.F. court-martial yesterday acquitted the pilot of a plane which injured two people on Ninety-Mile Beach with a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soviet Report on Murder of Poles 11,000 Corpses Found
Singleton Argus · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 3
More than 11,000 corpses, clad in Polish military uniforms, were discovered in graves 10 miles from Smolensk, along the highway…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Paymaster in Court
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 29 January 1944 · page 3
SYDNEY Sat.— Alan Elsmore Williams, 47, paymaster employed by Consolidiated Press, Ltd., was committed for trial by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japanese Brutalities to Americans and Filipinos Starvation, Torture, and Murder
Singleton Argus · Monday 31 January 1944 · page 2
A long documented account of Japanese brutalities to Americans and Filipinos taken prisoner on Bataan and Corregidor has been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Police Court
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 3
There was no sitting of the Cessnock Police Court to-day. This is quite unusual except on the fifth Tuesday in the month…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Theft of Army Petrol
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 3
NEWCASTLE Tues.—On January 26, Patrick Charles Conitti (34) solder stoke eight gallons of petrol property of the Army…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Italian Wine-Grower Charged
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1
SYDNEY Tuesday—Victoria de Bortoll, an Italian wine -grower of Bilbul via Yenda was manded on £300 ball at a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court Action Over Bay Mare
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 3
Albert Avery, 60, labourer, appeared before Mr. I. Beavers, West Maitland court today, on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jap. Brutalities to Americans and Filipinos Starvation, Torture and Murder
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1
A long documented account of Jap. brutalities to Americans and Filipinos taken prisoner on Bataan and Corregidor has been issued in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →