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New England · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1944

591 stories in New England's papers · page 13 of 30

District Court Actins Adjourned

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 6

Two cases listed for hearing at the Armidale District Court yesterday were adjourned. In the first case Samuel F. Dawson claimed…

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Young Soldier's Lapse Pleads Guilty to Stealing Judge Imposes Ban on Use of Alcohol

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 6

A prohibition on the taking of alcohol, visiting places where alcohol is sold and being absent without leave…

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The Garden Gruding Greeting to June King Winter Holds Court

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 5 June 1944 · page 8

Once again garden lovers grudingly offer greetings to June—one month when King Winter and his faithful…

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Coupon, Ration Book Theft From Mosman

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 6 June 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A second large scale theft of clothing coupons and ration books since Saturday occurred last night when…

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£10 FINE Theft From Common Defendant and Wife Camped Under Gum Tree

Glen Innes Examiner · Tuesday 6 June 1944 · page 2

In the Glen Innes Police Court yesterday Leslie Brown pleaded guilty to a charge of having on or about May 18…

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Airman in Trouble Assaulted Police Sergeant Alleged Hostility to Police

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 7 June 1944 · page 3

A feeling of hostility towards the police seldom pays any dividends and if it is carried to the extent of assaulting a man in blue, and…

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Cross Charges of Assault Bundarra Road Incident Questions of Reputation and Bluff

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 7 June 1944 · page 4

Reputations can be gained in a variety of ways—by the hard, hard road, by accident, or by bluff or other means. In the Inverell police…

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Report of Assault

The Inverell Times · Friday 9 June 1944 · page 4

In the report of proceedings against Albert Ramage in the Inverell police court, there was an inference that in the struggle Ramage succeeded in…

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Court Arrangements

The Inverell Times · Friday 9 June 1944 · page 4

In the absence of his Honor, Judge Storkey, the District Court, to have been held at Inverell on Wednesday has been adjourned by the Registrar…

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Theft of Large Sums

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 10 June 1944 · page 2

Too much money was being hoarded in homes, a senior police officer said in Sydney. He was commenting on the recent…

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Alleged Wounding With Intent to Murder

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 10 June 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Francis Reed (18) was committed for trial at Ferntree Gully Court yesterday on a charge of…

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Police Investigate Woman's Death

Glen Innes Examiner · Saturday 10 June 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Saturday.—The death of a woman whose body was bound on a bed in a flat occupied by an Allied Service…

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Betting Ticket Grabbed Man Charged With Theft SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 12 June 1944 · page 2

On a charge of having stolen a betting ticket valued at £180 at Randwick on Saturday, Herbert Victor Butcher (33) painter, was…

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Disgrace to Community Magistrate Castigates Woman ADELAIDE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 6

A 31-years-old woman was sentenced to three months gaol by Mr. Sanderson, S.M., to-day for having neglected her five children…

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Filthy Home & Neglected Children Gaol For Woman ADELAIDE

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 6

A thirty-one-year-old woman was sentenced to three months’ gaol by Mr. Sanderson, S.M., to-day for having neglected her five…

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Deepwater Police Court

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 4

At the Deepwater Police Court, before Mr. F. T. Scroope, P.M., Thomas Ridges, for whom Mr. Q. A. Biddulph (Guyra)…

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Hotel Licence Removal Sought Police Objection

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 6

At the Licensing Court at Tenterfield, when application was made by Mervyn John Parsons for renewal of the licence…

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Licensing Court

The Inverell Times · Monday 19 June 1944 · page 2

Publicans licenses and Australian wine and spirit merchants licenses of the district were renewed in Inverell Licensing Court this morning by the…

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Gave Himself Up Story of Alleged Assault Wicks Committed for Trial

The Inverell Times · Monday 19 June 1944 · page 2

In the Inverell Police Court this morning. Albert William John Wicks (31), laborer, was committed for trial on a charge of…

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Beastly Crime at Young Police Posse Hunt For Culprit SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Monday 19 June 1944 · page 1

No trace has yet been found of a man who criminally assaulted Judith Kearins, aged 4, at her home at Bendick Murrell, near Young, on…

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