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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

2,026 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 102

Brutal Assault. Beaten About the Head. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 February 1921 · page 5

Thomas Nash, a barman, at the Grange Hotel, Hamilton, Victoria, was reading in bed early yesterday morning, when he heard a sound of heavy…

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Hospital Carnival. Police and Firemen's Sports

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 February 1921 · page 2

The police and firemen's sports held on the Show Ground on drew a fair attendance. The sports were promoted with a view to…

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West Maitland Court. Monday, February 28. (Before Mr. G. Atkin, P.m.). a Bogus Traveller

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 February 1921 · page 2

William Button was found by Sergant M'Lean on licensed (premises during prohibited hours on the 21st instant, and on being asked his…

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Local& General News Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 March 1921 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court this morning John Judge (34) was fined 5/ for, being drank disorderly High-street last evening. Another…

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Serious Assault. Victim's Condition Hopeless

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 March 1921 · page 2

Frederick Scale, John Charley, and William Ryan were charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having unlawfully assaulted Edward Ryan…

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Alleged Child Murder

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 March 1921 · page 2

Dulcie Gillespie, a domestic, was remanded at the police court on a charge of having murdered her male child at Mount Druitt…

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Murder Gang in Cairo

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 March 1921 · page 4

London, Friday.—A Cairo message says that the death sentences passed on six members of the vengeance gang, who were convicted for wholesale murders…

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Incident in Restaurant Unemployed-laborer Charged

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 March 1921 · page 1

A labourer named Cecil Coe was charged at the Sydney Police Court on Saturday with having unlawfully asassaulted Kathleen Basyll…

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Police Association. First Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 March 1921 · page 6

The first conference of the newly-formed New South Wales Police Association was opened in the Highland Society's rooms in Sydney on Monday. The…

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Ireland Looting by Police

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 1 March 1921 · page 4

London, Friday.—In the House of Commons to-day, Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ireland, said that cadets charged with looting were…

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Police Court Depositions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 March 1921 · page 2

During the hearing of a case at the Maitland Quarter Sessions the question arose, as it frequently does in criminal cases, of the reliability of depositions…

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Wednesday, March 2. Sentenced for Breaking and Entering

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 March 1921 · page 5

William Baker (17), who last pleaded guilty to three charges of breaking and entering at Cessnock in November last, was brought up for sentence. Mr. Ward…

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Profiteering Court. Judge's Instructions. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 March 1921 · page 5

Judge Booby in the Profiteering Court to-day said in applications for increasing certain lines it would be necessary for the parties to ut before the…

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Muswellbrook Letter. Police Court. Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1921 · page 7

The monthly sitting of the police court was held help yesterday, Mr. Atkin. P.M., presiding. The cases dealt with were:—A stranger named W. E…

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Thursday, March 3. Cattle Stealing Charge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1921 · page 4

Victor Leonard Cook and Donald Peter Cameron were charged with having on some day in May, 1920, near Gloucester, stolen one steer, the…

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Absentees Taxable. High Court Decision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 March 1921 · page 6

The Full High Court, consisting of the Chief Justice (Sir Adrian Knox) and Justice Higgins, Duffy, Rich and Starke, delivered judgement in…

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Judge Beeby and Dairy Farmers. Court Will Not Back Down. a Fair Price and Fair Profit. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 3 March 1921 · page 2

Giving-his decision respeciting the price of milk for Newcastle, Judge Booby said it.was not the province of the Court to answer criticisms or to…

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Cessnock Police Court. Monday, February 28th

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 March 1921 · page 6

James O'Brien was charged at the Cessnock Police Court on Monday, before Mr. G. Wheeler, J.P., with having insufficient lawful means of support…

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Scone Police Court. Alleged Wanton Driving Whereby Bodily Harm Was Caused

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 March 1921 · page 2

At the local Police Court, on Thursday, 24th ult, before Mr. W. J. M. Fincham, P.M., James Gleeson was proceeded against at the…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing at Cessnock The Information Dismissed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 March 1921 · page 7

Sidney Herbert Cruickshank pleaded, not guilty to a charge of having stolen a bullock, the property of Edward Alfred Wilkinson, at Bellbird, in the…

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