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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

1,232 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 27 of 62

Mussolini's Treasure Thirty - Four Charged

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 1

The Italian Republic General Prosecutor has charged 34 persons in connection with the disappearance of Benito Mussolini's…

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Muswellbrook Police Recover Bodies. Victims of Record Flood. Three Deaths in Upper Hunter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 1

The record floods of last week exacted a heavy toll in human life, three drownings having occurred in the Upper Hunter. DOUBLE FATLAITY AT MAISON DIEU…

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£50 Fines, Costs In Language, Assault

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 2

Fines and compensation amounting to £50 were imposed on defendants who appeared before Mr. F. R. Wood, SM, in…

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Merriwa Police Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 8

At the Merriwa Police Court on 17th June, Edward James Lucas, of Darlington, Sydney, was charged with having driven a motor vehicle…

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Remanded on Stealing Charge

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 5

At the Police Court on Wednesday, Robert George Berman was charged with having on 19th June last, stolen tools, the property of A. E. Thiess, of…

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Magistrate's Waring To Singleton Youth Illegally Used Cars: Told Previous Good Record Saved Him From Gaol

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 1

"I have taken into consideration the fact that you have never been before the court, otherwise I would have no hesitation in sending you to gaol for a long sentence," Stipedniary-Magistrate, Mr. J. B…

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Mussolini's Treasure Thirty Four Charged

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 8

The Italian General Prosecutor has charged 34 people in connection with the disappearance of Mussolini's…

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Police Transfers

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 2

SINGLETON, Sg[?] J. McDwyer, officer-in-charge at Singleton Police Station for five years, will leave Singleton on July 11 to…

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Unsolved Mystery Of Trotsky's Murder

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 3

On August 20, 1940, in his house at Coyoacan, Mexico, Leon Trotsky was stubbed to death by means of a steel pick driven into his/brain. The…

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Licensing Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 3

At the Licensing Court on Wednesday, Muswellbrook Jockey Club was granted a publican's booth licence for the club's race meeting to be held…

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Floods Delay Court Cases

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 6

Flood dislocated road and rail communications and caused the adjournment of two cases sheduled to be heard at Singleton…

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Floods Affect Court Hearings

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 3

Several cases were adjourned at the Police Court on Wednesday, when it was announcd that the prosecuting officers had been unable to reach…

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Careful Drivers at Warkworth Police Say

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 4

Warkworth Parents and Citizens' Association recently asked the Road Transport Department to provide a "school" and speed…

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(Bush Ranging Memories No. 2 Captured and Robbed Police Gallows Victims Later

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 8

The gallows finally claimed the Jewboy gang, notorious Hunter Valley bushrangers of the early…

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50 Years Ago (Taken from issues of the "Argus" week-ending June 25, 1899). Police Station Telephone

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 2

We are pleased to be able no state that the Department has consented to the application made for the police station to…

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Police to Handle Sight-seers

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1949 · page 1

Squad of from eight to 10 [?] will handle the sight-seers [?] in Maitland’s flooded [?] over the week-end,…

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Recruits For The Police Force

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY: The Government had approved the enrolment of another 100 recruits in the police force, the Premier (Mr. McGirr)…

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Theft of £2 Was Costly Business

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 June 1949 · page 3

Because be find been in [?]tody for almost three weeks, Mr. F. R. [?] to-day imposed nominal fines on John Patrick Kai[?] a…

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Man Sentenced for Theft. Five Charges

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 1

At the Police Court on Saturday, Robert George Burman, laborer, pleaded guilty to five charges of stealing. A list of…

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10,000 View Maitland Police Check Cars on

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 29 June 1949 · page 2

Motor cars, lorries and motor cycles were banked up for over three miles on the New England Highway on Sunday, whilst Police inquired, "where…

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