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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

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Families to Police Huts

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 3

WOLLONGONG, Monday.— People who occupied army huts at Port Kembla held a meeting yesterday and decided to police…

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Ladies’ Underwear at Police Sale

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 2

Ladies’ underwear, night dresses and pyjamas all new and coupon free— will be offered at a sale of unclaimed property at West…

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Dismissal of Persian Police Chief

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 April 1946 · page 3

London April 1.— The chief of the Persian police, General Zarabi, has been dismissed, says the Teheran correspondent of the…

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Burglary At Chic Salon

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 3

West Maitland police have detained a man in connection with a burglary at the Chic Salen in High-street last night…

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Car Driven with Dead Man at Wheel. Police View of Murder

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Detectives investigating the murder on Friday of Miles Henry ("Face") McKeown, now strongly believe that the shooting,…

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Magistrate Refers to Rabbit Farming

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 4

"Having regard to the high price of rabbit skins and the high price of carcases, it appears to me that a number of…

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Charge of Assault Donnelly v. McCabe

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 3

At Cessnock Police Court this morning, before Mr. H. L. Sargesson; P.M., Harold Augustine Donnelly proceeded against James McCabe for…

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Police Cadets Transfer

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 3

Police Cadet L. T. Holmes of West Maitland, was yesterday transferred to the Traffic Office Sydney…

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Police Comb Underworld Notorious Gangster's Death

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 3

A large force of detectives 'combed Sydney underworld haunts through-Saturday night, but so far have obtained no clue to the killing of the…

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Official Letter Scone's New Police Station

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 1

Mr. W. T. Seaward, of "Myala," Scone, is in receipt of the following letter from Hon. J. P. Abbott: With reference to previous…

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Charged with Aiding Enemy British Soldier Captured fn Crete(Australian Associated Press)

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 April 1946 · page 3

LONDON. April 2 —A British soldier, captured in Crete in June, 1941, is alleged to have aided the enemy by wireless-propaganda, after being taught microphone technique, by Margaret Joyce, wife of “Lord Haw Haw.”…

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Police Seek Murder Information

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY Wed.—An appeal to any memebr of the public likely to be able to assist them to come forward and do so in strict…

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Sentenced to Death

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 1

THE HAGUE, April 3.—Professor J. J. Schrieke, who was Dutch Secretary General during the occupation, was sentenced to…

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10 Years’ Gaol for Manslaughter

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 4

ADELAIDE Wed.—A lubra, Margaret, was sentenced yesterday by Judge Wells in the Alice Springs Criminal Court to 10…

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PM Accepts Defendant’s Story Of Assault

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 6

CESSNOCK, Tuesday—At the Cessnock court Harold Augustine Donelly proceeded against James McCabe, for unlawful assault at…

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Police Action Against Bob Dyer

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY Wed.—A summons is understood to have been taken out by the police against the radio comedian, Bob Dyer,…

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Loss of British Submarine Court Martial to Be Held

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 2

A court martial on the loss of the British submarine H.M.S. Seal, which disappeared early in 1940 and reappeared as a Nazi U…

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Charge of Assault

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 5

NEWCASTLE Thurs.—For Assaulting a waitress in a Hunter street cafe yesterday Cecil Hodges (30), labourer was dined…

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Charged with Robbery

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 6

Substantial bail was asked for by Inspector G. [?]at West Maitland Court when Ronald Thomas Henderson. 48. labourer,…

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Housemaid And Man Charged

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 6

SYDNEY Thursday. — Mavis Dorothy Burton, 18, housemaid at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney J Herman, in March Street,…

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