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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

961 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 49

Stealing Charge Dismissed

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 5

A 41-years-old barman was discharged in the Maitland court yesterday on a charge of stealing the magistrate…

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Assault Charge Dismissed

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 4

A Charge, alleging unlawful assault preferred by John Gaddea of High street East Maitland against Dennis…

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Bedside Court In Hospital

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: At a bedside Court at St. Vincent’s Hospital a women cleared a man charged with having…

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Controversial Law Court Is to Go

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 8

FRANKFURT: The U.S. law court system in West Germany one of the most controversial of American occupation practices will be all but liquidated when West Germany wins her independence from the Allies…

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Divorce Court

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 7

The issues were found in the affirmative in the case at the Newcastle Divorce Court in Which Joyce Donald, formerly…

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Police Seek Window Breaker

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 5

Maitland police are searching for a man, who broke a bar window of the Exchange Hotel, Largs, last night…

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Police Search for Two Men

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police are searching for two men who, they believe, last night ware responsible for the brutal attack…

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East German People’s Police Face Purge

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 3

BERLIN: East Germany’s “People’s Police” face a second political purge within 12 months. Herr Karl Maron, sturdy 48-years-oId Moscow-trained commander of all East German police forced…

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"Seedless Lemon" Claim Fails In Court

Singleton Argus · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE. — Ronald Charles Francis, nurseryman, Hawthorn, who claimed that two men, after buying a block…

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Murder Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Miroflav Tuma, a 27-years-old nightclub proprietor, was charged at Paddington court to-day with the…

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Police Inspector Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 6

Police Inspector D. C. Yardy, of Newcastle, [?] of Maitland, has been transferred to West [?]…

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Charged With Stealing £110

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 3

CESSNOCK: Reginald Clyde Burston, was charged at the Cessnock court to-day, before Mr. F. Wood S.M., with…

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Remanded on Stealing Charges

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 3

On the application of the police, Reginald Clyde Burston, of Government-road, East Cessnock, was remanded until April…

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Police Boys’ Club Building

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

With the Maitland Police Boys’ Club building nearing completion, it required only one last big effort to raise the…

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Demonstration Prevented By Police

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 1

LONDON: Police prevented about 60 coloured and white students from staging a march on South Africa House, in the…

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Costello Sentenced And Fined

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK: Frank Costello, Ions linked by police and official Investigators with the underworld, was yesterday…

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Police Raid Fashionable Restaurant

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: Detectives arrested 21 persons, many of them country visitors, in a raid on the fashionable Gleneagies…

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Controversial Law Court Is To Go

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 3

FRANKFURT, Wed. The U.S. law court system in West Germany, one of the most controversial of…

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Muswellbrook Police Court. Cases at Yesterday's Sitting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 8

Trevor Thomas Smith, represented by Mr. S. C. White, was charged with driving a motor car in Bridge Street while under…

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Hanged In Gaol Cell

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY Robert Donald Amour 22 who figured in an escape from Em[?] Plains Prison Farm in tannery has been…

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