Biggest Cigarette Theft
LONDON June 7—The biggest cigarette theft so far reported was carried out yesterday at Watford, near…
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Courts & crime, 1945
1,080 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 54
Parramatta Gaol Fire
SYDNEY Thursday.— The tailoring shop at Parramatta gaol was destroyed by fire early this morning…
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An Australian war bride said on evidence in Central Police Court Sydney that she had paid a man £300 to arrange for her passage to America to rejoin…
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NEWCASTLE Thurs. — Story of theft of £10 by a girl and subsequen theft of the portion of it by two youths was told in the…
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SYDNEY Thurs.—Immediately additional police can he secured following releases from Army, the strength of the…
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Mr. A. E. Hodgson, who succeeds Mr. J. McElroy as Police Magistrate for the area embracing Singleton, made his first appearance in…
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Two boys, Allan Desmond McLennan, 15, and Frederick Bruce Nicholl, 16, both of Sefton, who had pleaded guilty to a charge of having raped a…
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SYDNEY Friday.—Railway pilfering in New South Wales now averages about £300,000 a year. Most of the stolen goods,…
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At Cessnock Police Court on Tuesday afternoon, before Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., Roland Alley charged Frank Butler and Ray Reilly with assault…
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Imprisoned for harbouring her deserter husband. Mrs Eileen Agnes Davies, aged 25, returned to her home at Shepherd's Bush, London,…
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SYDNEY Friday—The police [?]ecovered four loaded pistols yesterday. They have taken [?] of 300 firearms since the…
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Sydney police recovered four loaded pistols yesterday, and have now taken charge of 300 firearms since the beginning of this year…
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We are very desirous of running a competition stretching over an indefinite period, which is called a "ladder" competition. This competition…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newspapers in Court £765 in Fines for Contempt
Fines totalling £765 were imposed on two newspapers In the Federal Arbitration Court in. Melbourne for contempt. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sensational Climax to Rabbit Prosecution 71 Years, Old Man Said He Preferred Gaol to Paying Fine "Everybody Has Them, Why Not Summons the Lot"
Most sensational and pathetic of the 30 odd cases of prosecutions against local landholders for failure to destroy rabbits on their properties came before Mr. A. E. Hodgson, Police Magistrate, in his debut to Singleton yesterday, when 71 years' old Michael…
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LONDON, June 9 —it is stated officially that Lieut-General Günter Pancake, former German Police Chief of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Absentee Cases At Cessnock Sitting of Special Court
CESSNOCK, Saturday.—Mr. R. Atkinson, S.M., decided at a special sitting of the Federal Court at Cessnock to-day to hear charges preferred against mine-workers for absenteeism…
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SYDNEY Monday.—At the Paramatta Quarter Sessions to-day [?]ve Australian, soldiers received [?] sentences varying from 15…
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SYDNEY, Monday.— In the Criminal Court to-day, “Sister” Eunice Irene Fitzgerald (60); well-known equestrienne of Kingswood,…
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At Parramatta Quarter Sessions to-day Judge shortland sentenced five Australian soldiers to gaol, the sentences…
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