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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1947

1,159 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 58

Muswellbrook District Court. Dishonored Cheque

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 6 May 1947 · page 2

Four cases were listed before his Honor, Judge Niel, at the Muswellbrook District Court on 29th April. Leslie Charles Thiess, represented…

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Seek Court Hearings Within 28 Days Federal A.L.R Executive Conference - Agenda Items

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 May 1947 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday. — One of the items on the agenda of -the half-yearly meeting of the Federal Executive the A.L.P., to be held here next Monday, will urge that the Arbitration Act be amended to make it compulsory for…

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Derelicts Sentenced At Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1947 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday—Two of the- Wharf-road vagrants who, on Tuesday, were remanded for sentence, appeared in the Police Court…

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J.P. Convicted Of Stealing

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1947 · page 5

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—George Albert Godsall (37), fireman, pleaded guilty in tbhe Police Court to-day to theft of a magnifying glass,…

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Muswellbrook Police Court Illegal Betting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 4

Two cases of alleged illegal betting were heard at the Police Court on Wednesday. The proceedings were brief, as in both cases the men charged…

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Wife Walked in and Took Furniture and Cash Now Faces Trial for Theft Long Hearing in Local Police Court

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 8

Blanche Aileen Alexander Ritter, who left her matrimonial home at "Greenvale," Greenland, back in January of last year, after she had been assaulted by her husband Clarence Francis Joseph Ritter, went back to her old home last month ana…

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Gaol for Assaulting His Father

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 7

At Kurri Kurri Police Court yesterday Thomas Miller proceeded against his son, John Miller, on a…

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Unusual Ending to Assault Charge "Warrat" McDonald Acquitted

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 1

At Cessnock Police Court on Tuesday afternoon, Mr. H. Sargeson, P.M., dismissed a charge of assault…

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Brothers-in-law at Grips Scott's Flat Scuffle Has Court Aftermath

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 May 1947 · page 4

Alexander John Grundy this morning faced Police Magistrate M. J. D. Austin in the local court, for assaulting his brother-in-law, Eric Henry…

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Two Young Jews Sentenced

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 5

JERUSALEM, May 2.— Two young Jews, who issued unauthorised leaflets, calling on the community to “rise against the…

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Year Old Court Hasn’t Had a Case Yet

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1947 · page 6

THE HAGUE (Associated Press): The International Court of Justice celebrated its first anniversary in April, and statistics…

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Dixie Handicap Won By Assault

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 5

BALTIMORE, May 11.— Wining the 24,700 dollars Dixie Handicap with the greatest of ease, Assault to-day became the third…

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Charge of Stealing Money at Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Monday —William George Lawrence Howe, 20, Miner was charged in the Police Court today with having stolen £180 the…

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Welcome To New Magistrate At Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 2

Before the commencement of business at West Maitland court to-day, a welcome was extended to the new police magistrate, Mr…

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Charge Ob Assault at Scott’s Flat

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 4

SINGLETON: Alexander John Grundy, dairy farmer, of Whittingham, appeared at the singleton Court before Mr. M. I. D…

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Allegation of Theft Endeavour to Prove Ownership of Goods

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 2

From cross examination of witnesses in the police court case of last week, in which Aileen Blanche Alexander Ritter has been charged by the…

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Inquiry Into Police Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.— A Royal Commission Inquiring Into the circumstances of the transfer of police Sergeant Alfred John…

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Armed Police Arrest 3 Men

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.—After five weeks vigil armed police apprehended three men and seized three cars and a utility…

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Twelve Germans to Face Trial For Wholesale Murder

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 3

General Telford Taylor, Chief United States Prosecutor, handed to the Nuremburg War Crimes Court an Allied indictment of 12 German Generals, accused of having murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians in Greece, Yugoslavia and…

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Murder, Cruelty and Wanton Destruction Alleged Against Twelve German Generals

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 4

LONDON, May 12.—Murder, ill-treatment, deportation of slave labour, plunder of public and private property and the wanton destruction of cities, towns and-villages are alleged in the indictment filed with the Nuremberg war Crimes…

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