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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 62

Burglary At Mine Storeroom

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 1

Detective-sergeant V. Woodward, of Maitland, and Detective N. White, of Newcastle, are investigating the theft of goods…

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More Police For Control of Traffic

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Murray Robson, MLA, chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Road Accidents, the…

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Gaol for Using Car

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Wednesday.—At Katoomba Court, James Douglas, 32, baker, of Annandale-street, Annandale, was sentenced to 12…

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Police with Bathers

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

Polio[?] in bathing costume will mingle with bathers on Newcastle beaches in future. Other police in plain clothes will be…

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Repatriating German War Prisoners Breach of Faith Charged Against Russia

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

WASHINGTON, January 5.—The United States accused Russia of a breach of faith in a note delivered to the Kremlin on Monday on the Soviet’s alleged failure to repatriate all remaining German war prisoners…

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R.A.N. Man In Dutch Gaol Held Four Months Without Trial

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

BATAVIA, Jan. 5.—A former British naval officer, Carlton A. Hire, 39, will stand trial on January 18 on a charge of having…

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Local and General News Police Sergeant Transferred

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 2

Sgt. C. M. Ryan, who received his promotion from third class to second class sergeant, has been advised officially of…

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Inspection of Meat by Police Condemned By Council Health Officer

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 3

Condemning the practice of police inspecting meat, the health inspector (Mr. T. C. Atkinson) told Lower Hunter Shire Council to-day that it gave people a false sense of security…

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Family Starved To Get Dad Home For Xmas Pathetic Story Told to New York Court

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

A young, mother fed herself and her three children only on cereals to raise enough money to obtain bail for her…

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For Trial On Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs. — Hilton Thomas Green, 23, a fireman, was committed for trial for murder at the inquest to-day on a…

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Court Order to Grazier

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. Acting Justice Berne, in the Divorce Court, ordered a Singleton grassier, Garnet Lucas Stacy, of…

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U.S. Hotly Denies Soviet Charge Using Police As Nucleus of New Jap Army

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1949 · page 2

TOKIO, Jan. 6 (A.A.P.-Reuter). — A Soviet charge that the United States was using the Japanese police force to provide the nucleus of a new Japanese army was hotly denied at a meeting of the Allied Council for Japan by the…

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Woman Alleges Unlawful Assault

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 3

Alleging unlawful assault, Mary Crich, of 107 Georgestreet, East Maitland, proceeded against Robert Campbell, of Flinders-street, East…

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Murder Charge Dropped

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Crown had abandoned proceedings against John McGrath, who had been charged with the murder of…

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Houses Holding Back Police

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 5

Shortage of recruits for London's police is partly due to the housing shortage. The force is about 5000…

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Alleged Assault At Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1949 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Sat.—Mr. Hook, SM., committed two men for trial on charges of having assaulted sad robbed a seaman…

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Gum-chewers Rouse Magistrate

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 1

Two defendants, who appeared before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., at West Maitland count on different charges to-day were chewing…

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Wife Charges Husband with Assault

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 2

In a case at West Maitland court to-day in which a wife with a black eye charged her husband with assault, the magistrate (Mr. F. R.)…

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Police Seeking Relatives

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 2

Police are trying to locate relatives of Richard Verling, 78, whose body was found in a tent in the bush near Toronto…

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Court Sittings At East Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 January 1949 · page 2

There will be three sittings of the Quarter Sessions and three of the District Court at East Maitland this year…

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