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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

2,026 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 16 of 102

Gun License. Police Refuse Endorsement. Magistrate Upholds Appeal

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 5

In the first case of its kind the magistrate (Mr Giles Shaw) gave his reserved decision at the Redfern Court last week in the appeal of Cecil…

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Robbers Sentenced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 5

George Strapegos, restaurant keeper and John Grill, of independent means found guilty at Darlinghurst Sessions of having received 3000 yards of stolen…

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Melbourne Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 5

The Melbourne police are looking for two men who are supposed to have been concerned in the death of Albert Whyte, of St. Kilda, in a brawl in…

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Alleged Murder. Ex-constable Arrested

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 6

John O'Ooughlin formerly a constable, and recently a partner in a pastoral lease with Thomas James a storekeeper, of Burtville (W.A.)…

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Police and Firemen's Sports

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 4

The right to conduct a publican's booth and a luncheon and refreshment booth at the Police and Firemen's Carnival to be held on the…

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Shipping Dispute. Arbitration' Court Proceedings Referred to High Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 7

The dispute between the seamen and the shipping companies was brought before Mr. Justice Powers in the Federal Arbitration Court, both parties…

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Is It Coley ? North Sydney Murder. Brisbane, Saturday

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 4

According to one report of the arrest of the man alleged to be will fred Ernest Coley in connection with the North Shore murder on…

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LOCAL & General News Warden's Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 4

At the Warden's Court, at the East Maitland Courthouse yesterday afternoon, before the Warden (Mr. G. Atkin, George William F. de Salis was…

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Award Varied. Applications to Industrial Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 6

In the Industrial Court in Sydney, on Monday several awards were varied. The Brickmaker award for Lithgow, Bathurst, and for the Northumberland…

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Hours of Labour. Applications to Special Court. Railway Service. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 5

Applications for inquiry into the hours of labour of employees engaged in various trades were heard this morning in the special court set up…

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East Maitland Court. (Before Mr. G. Alkin, P.m.) Monday, February 22. Improper Behaviour

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 6

Harley Layton, for having behaved in an improper manner in Melbourne-street, East Maitland, was fined 1O/ and 8/ costs, in default three days…

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Peeps at the Past. Punishable Offences in 1830-40. When the "Cat" Fell Unmercifully. the Police Force v. the Liquor Trade. (No XXXII.)

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 February 1921 · page 2

The current series of our articles we confine to charges listed, together with the evidence elicited and the penalties imposed at the old…

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Brutal Murder. Boy Committed. London, February 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 February 1921 · page 5

At the inquest on Mrs. Seabrook, the septuagenarian widow, who was murdered at St. Albans on January 27. [?]verdict of wilful murder was returned…

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Removal of Police. the Marrcikville Complaint

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 February 1921 · page 7

At the last meeting of the Marrickville Council it was stated that no reply had been received from the Chief Secretary Department to its letter…

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Price of Bread. Fixed by Court. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 February 1921 · page 5

In the Profiteering Prevention Court to-day, Judge Beeby continued his adjourned inquiry into the prices of bread and jam…

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Sentenced for False Swearing

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 2

Joseph Pepper, contractor, was convicted at the Darlinghurst Sessions of having wilfully made a false statement on oath. He was sentenced to six months'…

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Indecent Assault Three Years' Penal Servitude

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 3

Harry Walker, aged 23, described as an actor, who wasconvicted at the Darlinghurst Sessions of having indecently assaulted a girl of eight years at Sirius…

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A Boy Criminal Brutal Murder

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 4

London, Monday.—Donald Litton, who confessed to the murder of a septuagenarian widow, Mrs Sealbrook, on January 27, because he "wanted money to go to…

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Police and Firemen's Carnival

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 4

Final arrangements in connection wit the Police and Firemen's Carnival, to be held on the show ground on Saturday, were made at a…

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Alleged Conspiracy Five Persons Charged. Hosiery Transactions. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1921 · page 5

Five persons, Hector Moxley, a manager Edmund Bartlett, a traveller, Robert Stokes, an agent Esther Cook an agent, and Alfred Blakemore, a…

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