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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

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Police Message "For S'afety's Sake" During Years to Come "If Every One."

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 4

If everyone who drives a car could lie a month in bed, With broken bones and stitched-up wounds, or fractures…

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Gaol Escapee Recaptured

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE: An escapee from Bendigo gaol, Donald Edward John Dunn, 24, of Glebe, was found in Victoria last…

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Police Promotions

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY: The following Police have been promoted from fist class to senior police constables—…

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Man Fired Petrol, Court Told

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 4

A man who allegedly threw a match into petrol escaping from a car in Maitland's train street last November was on…

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Gaol for Illegal Use of Motor

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 9

SYDNEY: Mr. A. R. Raschke, S.M., in Newtown court, sentenced Bruce Neville Richardson, 26, railway employee, to…

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Police Say Man Confessed

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 1

SAN FRANCISCO: Joseph Lear, 43, who is being held on suspicion in the “case of the kidnapped twin,” had made a…

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London Police Seek Murderer

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 1

LONDON: Scotland Yard detectives have not discounted a theory that the murderer of Mrs. Penelope Mogano, who…

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Cessnock Police Boys’ Club

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 3

CESSNOCK: The superintendent of Cessnock Police Citizens’ Boys’ Club (Constable J. Williams) said the…

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Police Still Baffled By Poisoning

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police continue to the poisoning of 31-years-old housewife, Mrs. Nora Ball, as baffling as when…

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Death Of Retired Police Officer

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 6

SINGLETON: Mr Percy Albert Whitfield, who died in Sydney on Saturday last in his 86th year, was officer-in-charge…

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Charged with Assault

Maitland Mercury · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

NAIROBI (Kenya): Two European police reservists were committed for trial yesterday on charges of…

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Decline In Morality Disturbs Magistrate

Maitland Mercury · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 3

It was difficult to understand the near collapse in the standards of morality which were upheld in years gone b, Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., said in Maitland court this morning…

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£50 Bail on Assault Charge

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

Neville Pointer, of Shalamah Street, Cessnock, was' remanded till next Tuesday on till of £50, with one surety of £50, on…

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Knife And Hammer Murder

Maitland Mercury · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

LONDON: Police are continuing their inquiries at the Old Time Dancing Club at Coventry in their search for…

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Convicted for Theft of Petrol Defendant Released on Bond

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 9

At the Police Court on Wednesday, Raymond George Suter and William James Cronin were convicted on charges of receiving stolen goods, valued at £9/17/8, the property of John A…

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Suicided Before Police Interview

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 5

A detective said at the City Coroner's Court yesterday that a man he had arranged to question in connection with…

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New Police Cycle For Royal Tour

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 5

Among interesting models in the motor cycle section of the recent Cycle and Motor Cycle Show at Earl's Court, London…

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Police Investigations at Dead-end Thallium Poisoning Case Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 1

Sydney C.I.B. detectives have come to what seems like a deadend in investigations into the mysterious thallium poisoning of…

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OVER 1300 Enrolled at Police Boys' Club. Opens On February 3

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 5

More than 1300 boys and 47 instructors have been enrolled at the Cessnock Police and Citizens' Boys' Club…

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Blitzing the Police Who Is to Blame?

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 23 January 1954 · page 2

News is at row ebb in Sydney. When this happens newspapers focus on such subjects as Doyle, Woolcott Forbes…

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