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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime
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BERLIN—(Associated Press) —Anti-black market “spies” are operating on a wide scale in an effort to curb Berlin’s In creative black market business. As a result the black marketers, who at the close of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →“Is it necessary to help our children to amuse themselves by playing at killing and murder?” a correspondent asks Louise Linden his week. In another letter, a mother confesses she is alarmed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MADRID.—(Associated Press)—Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s Government is liquidating its special court for the suppression of Freemasonry, and Sub-secretary of Justice Isidro De Arcenegui says that the last Spaniard gaoled solely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Jewellery and money to the value of about 70 were stolen from the name of Dr Shelton Davis of Liverpool-roads…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →So great was the crowd waiting to go over the American aircraft carrier Shangri-la yesterday that extra naval and civilian police were called…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. — In the Police Court to-day, Colin Peglar (47), taxi-driver, was charged with haying driven a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Tuesday.—John Henry Miles, 18-year-old factory worker, was refused bail when remanded by Mr. Scroope, SM, at the Newtown Court to-day until May 28 on a charge of having murdered his brother-in-law, Vincent Hill,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Tuesday—In a trenchant attack on black marketing in meat, the Director of Rationing, Mr. J. B. Cumming, declare that some meat traders in all Australian States were “knowingly and wilfully stealing meat from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In Newtown Court yesterday, Mr. Scroope, S.M., refused bail to John Henry Miles, 18, factory hand, who was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A girl who arrived home in Coogee last night with her nose broken and clothes bloodstained said she had been assaulted and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →BOMBAY, May 23.—Night curfews are to continue in the Punjab’s walled city of Lahore, where, following days of tragic communal rioting, a battalion of Ghurkhas and 700 men of the Inniskillen Regiment are ready for heavy action…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Walter Patrick Michael Duggon, 22, labourer, was charged before Mr. R. J. Howard, J. P. at the West Maitland Court , with having at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KURRI, Thurs—Before proceedings commenced at Kurri Kurri Court to-day a welcome was extended to Mr. G. L. Berry,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, May 21.—Colin William Wyatt, 38, was fined £stg100 in the West Ham Police Court for die unlawful possession of 1600 Australian butterfly specimens that had been stolen from the South Australian and Sydney museums…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →CANBERRA, Thursday.— The Deputy-Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Harrison) was charged by the Attorney-General (Dr. Evatt), in the House of Representatives, ,with having “impeded and obstructed the administration of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Circuit Court sitting set down for East Maitland on Tuesday next has been cancelled through lack of cases…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Thursday—With revolvers drawn, detectives leapt from a police car in Liverpool-street last night, arrested three men and seized a car loaded with furs worth more than £5000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →CESSNOCK, Friday.—William James [?]gate, was charged at the Cessnock Court to-day before Mr. McNamara, JP, with breaking…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—At the City Court to-day, George Henry Newman, motor driver, was charged with having wounded,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At Kurri Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. G. L. Berry, P.M., William Robert Gordon Smith, 38, and James William Smith, 24, pleaded guilty to a…
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