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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,080 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 54

Cessnock Police Boys'Club. Generous Donation by Mr. Lett

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 June 1945 · page 1

Our worthy citizen Mr. H. W. Lott, is always to the fore when charitable appeals are made. I will be remembered that he…

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£1000 for Police Boys’ Club

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 23 June 1945 · page 2

CESSNOCK Saturday. — A well-known businessman, Mr. H. Lett, or Cessnock. has donated £1000 towards the…

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Inventor Charged With Collaboration

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 1

PARIS June 25—Seventy-five-year-old Georges Claude, noted French scientist, a member of the French Academy, inventor of…

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Woman Charged With Stabbing

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY Monday. — At the Glebe police court to-day, Mrs. [?] Anderson (31), a conduct[?] was remanded on £50 ball…

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Non-Suit ln Court Case

Maitland Mercury · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 2

SINGLETON Monday.—Peter Keith Tudor, of Mount Clove, at Singleton court sued Elsie Andrews, of Mount Olive, for £25,…

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Tragedy at Wyong Man Under Police Guard

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 1

An elderly woman is dead, and her husband is in hospital under police guard, following the finding of both lying in their home in Panorama…

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Non-suit Accepted in Court Case Claim for Balance of Sharefarming Agreement

Singleton Argus · Monday 25 June 1945 · page 3

After there had been a discussion between the plaintiff's solicitor and Police Magistrate A, E. Hodgson and an…

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Cattle Stealing

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 1

Verney Melvin Galvin was charged with that at Ward's River on 1st November, 1944 he stole ten heifers, the property of George Mackay. There…

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Magistrate’s Death

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 2

Mr.G.J Johnstone former police magistrate at Maitland died on Thursday last night in a North Sydney hospital…

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Theft of Skiff and Bicycle

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Tues.—Pleading guilty in the police court to-day to theft of a skiff, also theft of a bicycle, Harold Oliver Shaw (27),…

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Objections by Police Renewal of Hotel Licences

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 June 1945 · page 2

Objection to the application by Alfred Richardson for the renewal of the licence of the Ho. Beatty, at Gresford, was…

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Admitted Theft Of black £1360

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 4

BRISBANE Wed. — Frederick Ling, 39, labourer, pleaded guilty at the City Police Court to having stolen £1360 from Francis…

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Assault on Jap. Aircraft Factories 3000 Tons of Bombs Dropped

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 2

Launching their greatest daylight assault of the war on Japanese aircraft factories, a force of 500 Superfortresses in daylight yesterday sent down more than 3000 tons of high explosives on four big industrial centres on the Japanese homeland. The targets…

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Ordered to Leave Court

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 27 June 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY Wed.—Accused by Mr. Dorey, KC, of giggling and unseemly behaviour, Mrs Louise Stapleton, wife of the licensee of…

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Acquitted of Murder

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 6

Leslie Eugene Brown, 30. laborer, was acquitted at the Criminal Court in Melbourne of the murder of Pearl Lillian Oliver, 19, waitress at…

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Old Murder Mystery Sensational Development Expected

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 5

Detective-Sergeant Dan Caiman, regarded as one of the best crime detectives in Australia, has been sent to Brisbane on a new…

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Murder and Looting in the Ruhr

Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 1

LONDON June 29.—The British military police are stamping out an outbreak of murder, rape, and robbery by displaced persons , in…

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Work By British Military Police

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 2

British military police are stamping out murder, rape, and robbery by displaced persons in the Ruhr, where the Nazis employed hundreds of…

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Spectators’ Seats In German Murder Chamber Australian Associated Press

Maitland Mercury · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 1

LONDON June 29.—Between the lofty, black-draped of an execution chamber constructed like a theatre, spectators’ seats and seats for German officials on a dais, the Germans beheaded 1078 Czech patriots, including…

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Doctor's Life in Gaol. Refused to Pay Arrears In Alimony. SYDNEY

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 June 1945 · page 2

Dr. Cuthbert, of Eastwood, was still in bed at the debtors' prison at Long Bay at 9.50 a.m. to-day. He told interviewers he had nothing to say. Last…

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