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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

1,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 51

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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