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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1954

954 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 40 of 48

U.s. Gaol Riot Quelled

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 3

NEW YORK: A riot in the state penitentiary at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, ended late yesterday when the…

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Police Warning

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 2

Police will take appropriate action if the one way traffic and parking regulations are not observed during show…

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Arrest of Former Police Head

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 1

PARIS: Chief Inspector Jean Dides, former head of the anti-Communist section of the Paris police, was charged…

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Women Traffic Police In N. Z

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 13 October 1954 · page 4

AUCKLAND: Women traffic cops, some uniformed and some in mufti, will soon patrol New Zealand roads in…

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Police Seek Public Aid In Search

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: An argent war[?] was issued to the public today, with an appeal for assistant in the police hunt for…

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Police To Intensify Campaign For Road Safety Observance

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 2

Police have been directed to intensify their campaign in an effort to bring about c better observance of road safety, Superintendent of Traffic (Mr. Snowden) said in Maitland to-day…

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Assault Case Dismissed

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 2

Mr. F. R. Wood S.M., in Maitland Court to-day, dismissed a charge of assault against Mervyn Parkinson, of Belmore…

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Licensing Court

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 1

In the Licensing Court an application by Mark Cotter, licensee of the Belmore Hotel, Scone, to carry out alterations…

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Police Chief to Explain

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 1

PARIS: A former Paris police chief, Jean Baylot, has been summoned to appear before a Versailles magistrate…

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Big Police Hunt For Slabber

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 5

Three hundred police on Wednesday night used search-lights in a hunt for a man on lonely [?]kley Moor in…

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Court Upholds Red Convictions

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK: The convictions of 13 second-string Communist leaders were unanimously upheld by the United…

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District Court at Maitland

Maitland Mercury · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 2

Eight of the nine actions listed for bearing at Maitland District Court on Monday, are claims for damages arising…

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Court Bid to Free Soldier

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 2

RELEASE OF A FORMER AUSTRALIAN MEMBER OF THE COMMONWEALTH FORCES IN KOREA FROM PRISON WAS SOUGHT BY APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS IN…

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Stud Groom Tells Court of Capsule for Horse

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 10

A stud groom said on Wednesday he held the racehorse Buccaneer while it was given a capsule at Wyong…

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“One-eyed Menace” Said Magistrate

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 2

You Could only be [?] as a “one-eyed me[?] Mr. F. B. Wood, S.M., told Barry W. Rcidy, of Albert-street, in…

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Gaoled For Theft Of Motor Cycle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 2

SINGLETON: Kenneth H Shackleton, of Werris Creek, who was charged at Singleton Court with breaking into…

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Singleton Court

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 2

At Singleton Court, Thomas William Fitzpatrick, of Teralba was sentenced to three months’ hard labour for…

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Court Award To Truck Driver

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 3

Judge Amsberg in the Court at East Maitland to-day awarded Herbert Charles Davis, truck driver, of…

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Driver Told Police He Had No Clue

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 3

A man replied: “I have not a clue" to every question put to him concerning a collision between two…

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Crowds Pack Court For Brown Charge

Maitland Mercury · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: Crowds packed Central Court to-day to see 20-years-old Robert Michael Brown Charged with intent…

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