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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

1,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 48 of 51

War Criminals Sentenced

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 December 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Dec. 3 . — According to Moscow radio a Polish court at Lublin sentenced to death five German war…

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Unlawful Assault At Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 December 1944 · page 3

Before Mr. I. Beavers. PM, at the West Maitland Court to-day, Lloyd William Miller, 21, steel worker, peaded guilty to…

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R.a.a.f. Trainee in Court Charge of Murder

Singleton Argus · Monday 4 December 1944 · page 2

Robin Adair, 19-year-old R.A.A.F. trainee, appeared in the Central Criminal Court to-day on a charge of having murdered Corporal Stanley…

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£10 Fine For Tyre Theft

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 December 1944 · page 1

NEWCASTLE Monday- — For having in his possession a motor vehicle tyre, George Pike, 45, gar[?]lener, was fined £10 or 20 days…

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Americans Capture Vital Bridge Units Gross Swollen River in Assault Boats

Singleton Argus · Monday 4 December 1944 · page 2

A vital bridge across the Saar River at Saarlouis has been captured intact. American units crossed the swollen river in assault boats just before dawn, under the very noses of the Germans, who evidently thought the…

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Internal Troubles in Greece Police Fire on Unearned Demonstrators Australian Associated Press

Maitland Mercury · Monday 4 December 1944 · page 2

LONDON, December 3.—A situation somewhat similar to that existing in Belgium appears to have arisen in Greece, and a crisis was reached this morning when Government police opened fire with machie-guns and…

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Woman Charged

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Tuesday— Lowers (78) pensioner appeared in the police Court to-day charged with theft of a bat oranament…

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Cane-cutter Charged

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Tues.—Charged; before Mr; Car Boyd, SM, in the police court today with being an Idle and disorderly person…

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Suspected Person Charge at Cessnock Police Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 3

At Cessnock Police Court this morning Kevin Eric Crump was charged with being a suspected person. The…

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Charge of Stealing From Railways

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY Tues.—Clifford Alexander Maxwell (34), a pig farmer. was charged at.the Central to-day on five charges of…

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Stealing Charge Shell Shocked Soldier

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 3

Nelson Summerfield was charged, at Cessnock Police Court this morning, before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., with…

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Maliciously Damaging Weighing Machine. Charge at Cessnock Police Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 3

John William Gillard and Thomas Patrick Ambrose were charged, before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., at Cessnock…

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Settled Out Of Court

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 December 1944 · page 2

Mr. N. C. L. Nelson, who appeared for the defendants announced a settlement in the District-Court when the…

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Sentenced To Death Murder Of Girl At Lithgow Prisoner at Central Criminal Court

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 December 1944 · page 2

William John Hugh Foye, 19, pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court, Sydney, to-day, when charged with the murder…

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Airman Sentenced to Death

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 December 1944 · page 4

Pound guilty of the murder of Corporal Stanley Wilson-Lanyon, at Ultime Air Force detention camp on October 2. by a jury in the Central…

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21 Days' Gaol for Begging Alms

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 December 1944 · page 2

John Sarkis, who was arrested last night by Constable R. N. McMahon, was charged in the local police court this morning with begging alms…

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Alleged Attempt to Murder

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 December 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday—Nellie Bourke (32). domestic, was further remanded at the Central to-day on a charge of…

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Stop Press Lithgow Murder

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 December 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY Wed.—Foye was found guilty of the murder of Doris Winfred Shorney at Lithgow, and sentenced to death…

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On Trial I For Murder Lithgow Tragedy

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 6 December 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY Wed.—William John Hugo Foye (19) pleaded net polity In the Central Criminal Court to-day when charged with the…

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Charged With Murder of Greek Shopkeeper

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 December 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Desmond Maxwell Jone[?] (16) and Thoral: Neville Jones (15), brothers, were charged at the central criminal…

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