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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

2,026 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 102

Shire Appeal Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 4

Appeals against valuations by the Bolwarra Shire Council were set down for hearing at the West Maitland Courthouse on Monday afternoon but…

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Singleton Letter. Police Count. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 2

Albert Henry Walden, John Charles Piesley, and William Allen, three young men and strangers here, were before the police court yesterday on a series…

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Police Court. Monday, April, 18, 1921. (Before Messrs. W. V. Parkinson and T. Purvis, J's.P.) the Gelston Robbery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 2

Leonard Stanley Macbeath, on remand, was charged that he did on the 26th. March last, break into the dwelling house (Gelston), at St…

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Police Court. Monday, April 18th. (Before Messrs A. Simmons and J. W. B. Waterhouse, Js.P.) Heavy Series of Charges

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 3

Three young men, strangers here, named Albert Henry Walden, John Charles Piesley, and William Allen, were charged with having, on April 16,…

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The Guyra Mystery. Police Precautions. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 5

The Inspector-General of Police has decided to send extra men to Guyra in connection with the mysterious stone throwing…

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Basic Wage. Arbitration Court Discussion. the 1908 Finding

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 2

The living wage question was again prominetly before the Federal Arbitration Court in the case of the Federated Gas Employees' Industrial…

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Alleged Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1921 · page 5

Percy Summers and Doris Lacuort were remanded at the Police Court on a charge of having assaulted an old Chinese, Ah Row, occasioning him…

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Man Sleeps in Coffin Sentenced For, Theft

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 April 1921 · page 4

At the Brisbane Police Court, Archibald Claude Gardiner was sentenced to seven days for having stolon a coffin, the property of Heslop and Company,…

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Morpeth Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 4

Mr. E.J. Cutcliffe, J.P., occupied the bench at the Morpeth Police Court yesterday. John Owen Mogan pleaded guilty to two charges of using indecent…

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Clarence Town Police Court. Before Mr. Fletcher, P.M.

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 2

On March 19 an affray took place on the road between Brookfield and Clarence Town, and as a result on Thursday April 14 th following defendants were charged:…

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Police Precautions

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 3

The Inspector-General of Police has decided to send extra men to Guyra in connection with the mysterious stone-throwing. Mr. Mitchell…

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WlLLSHIRES in Court. London, April 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 5

A decree for the restitution of conjugal rights was granted to Lilian wife of the baronet, Sir Gerard Arthur Maxwell Willshire. They were…

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Clarence Town Fight. Police Court Proceedings

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 9

On March 19 an affray took place on the road between Brookfield and Clarencetown, and the story was ventilated at the Clarencetown Police Court last…

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Gaol for Countess

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 6

Sentence of two years imprisonment with hard labour has been pronounced by a Dublin Court-martial against Countess Markieviez, who was recently on a…

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Cruel Murder. London, April 18

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 2

Details of the execution of Carroll, who was the sole support of his aged parents and of his imbecile brother, show that his fate was sealed, because…

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Cold-blooded Murder. London, April [?]

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 12

The official account of the [?] Sir A. Vicars states that he was [?] from his bed in his dressing[?] murdered outside the house. A [?]…

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Small Debts Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 16

Charles Smith proceeded against John Gulliver for the recovery of £9/3/6, alleged to be due in connection with a deal in potatoes, allegedly…

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A Pilliga Tragedy. Attempted Murder and Suicide

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 1

William Lea, aged 63, a farmer, residing a few miles from Pilliga, is alleged to have attacked Mrs. Green, with whom he lived, with a…

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Murder Mystery. Jurymen Threatened. London, April 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 5

The coroner's inquest his not solved the mystery of who murdered Vincent Fovargue, whose body was found on the ashford Golf Links, Middlesex, on…

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Appeal Court. Bolwarra Shire

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 3

A court for the hearing of appeals against assessments in the Bowlwarra Shire was held at the West Maitland Courthouse yesterday afternoon before…

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