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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

2,026 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 58 of 102

Charged with Murder

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 July 1921 · page 2

Charles Griffin, in custody, was before the Stroud Court this morning (before Messrs F. J. Callow and V. Champion, Justices of tho Peace)…

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Alleged Serious Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 July 1921 · page 5

Andrea Corfdiye French, a frenchman, was remanded on a charge of having assaulted Edward Hoe. It was stated that both men were seamen on…

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The Monkerai Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 July 1921 · page 2

The police engaged on the Monkerai murder have yet certain facts to clear up, and are continuing their investigations. They would like to…

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Robbery and Manslaughter. Two Men Charged

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 July 1921 · page 2

Two men have been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of an old man, George Legarde, who died in Sydney Hospital on Saturday, as…

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Stroud Tragedy. Castle of Murder

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 12 July 1921 · page 1

Further inquiries made by the police regarding the death of Frank Budkin at Monkerai, near Stroud, show that the case was one of…

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Shocking Crime Fifteen-year-old Lad Charged

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 July 1921 · page 2

London, Saturday,—Harold Jones, a lad of 15 years of age, has been arrested at Abertillery and charged with murdering Florence Little, aged 11, whose…

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Big Police Raid 142 ARRESTS

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 July 1921 · page 2

The Sydney police, about noon on Saturday, made what is possibly the biggest raid recorded in the history of the force, 142 men being lodged in…

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Clerk Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 July 1921 · page 5

Herbert Riley was charged at the Central Police Court with having stolen £800. the property of the Railway workers' industry Branch of the…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1921 · page 4

Before Mr. G. Atkin, P.M., at West Maitland Police Court this morning, a middle-aged woman was charged with drunkenness. Constable…

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Abertillery Murder

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 July 1921 · page 3

London, Monday.—An investigation of the house of the 15-year-old boy, Harold Jones, who is charged with the murder of Florence Little (11), at…

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Charges of Theft Dismissed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 July 1921 · page 2

At the local Police Court yesterday, before Messrs A. Simmons and J. W. B. Waterhouse, Js.P., two young men, named John Aldwell Wilton and Raymond…

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A Charge of Conspiracy Two Young Men at Court

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 July 1921 · page 2

The hearing of the charge against Allan Oreer Willians (32), and William Harry: Watson. (35), of having conspired to cheat and defraud the Inter-Ocean…

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Sydney Municipal Rolls Special Revision Court Opens. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 July 1921 · page 2

A start was made by the Special Revision Court appointed to consider objections made to names on the Municipal rolls as compiled by the police…

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Union Official in Court Large Sums Involved. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 July 1921 · page 2

Herbert Wiley was charged at the Central Police Court to-day with having stolen £800, the property of the Railway Workers Industrial branch of the…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 6

At the police court on Tuesday before A.simmons and j.w B.water house J.p.four youths named Francis william Adley charles…

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Police Allegation. Young- Man Charged. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 5

Aloysius Christopher Tops, or Hage 31, a fashionabiy-dressed young man, appeared .before the Central Court, charged with being an idle and That for some months past defendant had been frquenting various police court posings as a reporter he added that innumerable pawn tickets has…

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Monkerai Murder

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 2

There are no fresh developments in connection with the above. The adjourned inquiry will continue to-day (Friday)…

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The Monkerai Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 4

The inquest regarding the death of frank rudkin at monkeral on july 4 adjourned from last friday till today was further adjourned untill…

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Cessnock Police Court Before Mr. G. Atkin, P.m.) Tuesday, July 11, 1921

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 7

James Anderson Punton was charged with having, at Cessnock, on July 2, interrupted the police in the execution of their duty. Defendant pleaded…

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Murdered Girls. Boy Charged with Crime. London, July 9

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 July 1921 · page 3

Harold Jones, aged 15 years, has been arrested at Abertillery, charged with murdering Florence Little, 11 years, who had been outraged, and…

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