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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1945

1,080 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 54

Australians Gain on Bougainville, Take Tsimba Ridge In Final Assault

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 2

MELBOURNE Monday—After a [?] clerk against the Japanese which culminated in bloody hand to-hand fighting, Australian troops have captured [?] Ridge which for some time held up their advance in Bou[?]…

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Court Cases At Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 2

SINGLETON Monday. — Ernest George Samuels was charged at Singleton Court, to-day with having [?] lawful means…

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Week-end Offences Against the Law Busy morning at the court House

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 February 1945 · page 3

Notoriety which has been gained by Singleton through the comparatively few who appear before the court on minor…

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Three Months' Gaol For Wharf Theft

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 1

PERTH Tuesday—At the Fremantle Police Court to-day, Thomas Adolphus Morris (53), and Tom Bennett (42), whart labour…

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Boys Detained by Police Thefts From Business Places

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 3

Four boys, whose ages range from 12 to 16 years, have been detained by the West Maitland police in connection with several…

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Charged with Murder

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 1

SYDNEY Wed.— Milllcent Tangga (49), domestic duties, was charged at the Central Court to-day with the murder of…

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Police Museum Exhibits

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 February 1945 · page 3

Implements used in some of the most noted murder trials in the history of New South Wales are to be seen in the police museum,…

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Warder Struck Prisoner Maitland Gaol Allegations

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 5

SYDNEY Thurs. — Alexander Cairns Dunn, a former governor of Maitland Gaol, giving evidence before the Crown…

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Court of the Desert British Influence with Tribes

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 February 1945 · page 3

Within the thick walls of a heavily guarded building in southern Palestine is one of the strangest law courts in the world. It…

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Wingham Police Court Alleged Cruelty

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

At Wingham Police Court on 6th Feb. Jesse T. Bird was charged with that he did, on the 23rd day of November, 1944, at Wingham, ill-treat…

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Aided Escape of Germans Two Girls Sentenced

Singleton Argus · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 4

Federal Judge Picard, at Bay City (Michigan), sentenced two girls convicted of conspiring to aid the escape of two German prisoners of…

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Licensing Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 1

In tho Licensing Court yesterday, the licence of the Denman Hotel, Denman, was transferred from John William Farrar Hardwick to Ernest…

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Court House Park

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 2

The Mayor (Ald. J. Brown) told Cessnock Council on Tuesday night that the works foreman was preparing a plan…

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Gaol Sentence for Street Betting. Well-known Local Resident Convicted. Woman Fined £25 for Betting Offence

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 February 1945 · page 1

James Bede Falconer, coal miner, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment at the Muswellbrook Police Court yesterday on a charge of street…

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Seaman Charged

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

Krederich Launders 47 man, was charged before Mr. L. McNamara, JP, at West [?] court with having, at [?]…

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Request to Police

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1945 · page 2

Roy Wells, 38, labourer [?] charged at West Maitland [?] with having been drunk in [?] filed street and with having [?]…

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Charged with Cattle Stealing Local Man Before Police Court

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 3

Victor Herbert Walker was called in the local police court this morning on three charges, most serious of which was cattle…

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Fined For Assault On Police

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 1

Before Mr. I. Beavers. PM. st the West Maitland [?] to-day, Lawrence, Richard Drage was fined £2 in default four days…

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Gaol for Muswellbrook S.p. Bettor Two Previous Convictions

Singleton Argus · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 2

A well-known Muswellbrook resident, James Bede Falconer, coal miner, was sentenced to three months imprisonment by…

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Fair Rents Court Reduces Rent

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 February 1945 · page 2

Before Mr. L. Beavers, PM, in the Fair Rents Court at West Maitland to-day, Arthur Frank, Coleman, of Carrington-street;…

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