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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

954 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 48

Gaol For Illegal Use Of Lorry

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 3

Three New Australians were each sentenced in Maitland court this morning to three months’ gaol for…

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Court Cases Adjourned

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 2

John Vile Russell, 82, labourer, of Raymond street Telarah, was remanded by Mr. F. B. Wood…

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Police Seek Owners Of Clothes

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 2

Maitland police are seeking the owners of clothing found on the river bank at Oakhampton on Friday…

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Death Of Retired Police Inspector

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 2

Metropolitan and Hunter River police officers formed a guard of honour at the funeral service of Mr. George…

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Police Question U.s. Army Captain

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 1

SEOUL: South Korean police said yesterday they were questioning a former United States Army captain…

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Patrols in Hanoi After Communist Boast of Assault French Planes Slash Highways

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK: The French high command mounted extra armoured patrols in “jittery Hanoi” yesterdoy after the Communists increased their war of nerves with a boast that they were about to capture Hanoi,…

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Court’s Order Will Be Defied

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 3

ATLANTA: The Governor of Georgia (Mr. Herman Talmadge) declared to-day that negroes and whites would not…

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Police Credit To State, Says Justice Kinsella

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 3

Mr. Justice Kinsella said in the Supreme Court in Maitland today that he had a great admiration for the N.S.W. Police…

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Two years gaol sentence on 5 charges

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 1

A former Singletonian at Singleton Quarter Sessions on Monday was sentenced to two years gaol on each…

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Artist Warned by Police

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: Two detectives had told him the Consorting Act would be applied if he were seen talking to David…

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Police Boys’ Club Boxing

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 5

CESSNOCK: Newcastle, Mudgee and Quirindi clubs took part in a boxing tournament at the…

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Gibraltar’s First Murder in 20 Years

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 6

LONDON: Daniel Vasquez Mayor, 20-years-old Spaniard, sentenced to death for Gibraltar’s first murder in more…

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Police Confer on Road Deaths

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday. The Police Commissioner (Mr. Delaney) has called a conference of senior police…

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Gaol For False Pretences

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 1

SINGLETON: Francis Gordon Dever, 28. of Scone, appeared at Singleton Quarter Sessions in police custody on…

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Mutiny By Prisoners In London Gaol

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 1

LONDON: Prisoners matinled at London’s big Wandsworth prison yesterday, and barricaded themselves in a…

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Police Theory On Mail Bag Robbery

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: Detectives Investigating yesterday's £80,000 mail robbery have been unable discover at what point…

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Ruxton Accused of Lying Before Court Mr. Justice Dovey Calls Statement “Poppycock”

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: Mr. Justice Dovey, in the Royol Commission to-day, accused David Edward Studley-Ruxton ' of “humbugging the proceedings.” He said that if Studley-Ruxton did not behave…

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Architect On Stealing Charge

Maitland Mercury · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY: A senior Commonwealth Department of Works architect was charged in Court with stealing…

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Driver slated by magistrate

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 6

Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., told Stanley Vincent Joseph Duggan, 43, of Church Street, Maitland, that he would have only himself to blame if he were called on to answer a charge…

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Two Years' Gaol Sentence on Five Charges

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 13

A Scone man at Singleton Quarter Sessions on Monday was sentenced to two years' gaol on each of five charges…

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