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Hunter Valley · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1921

2,026 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 64 of 102

Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 4

At the West Maitland Police Court this morning Joseph M. O'Keeffe was fined 20/, in default 14 days' imprisonment, for having behaved in an…

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Battle of Wits. Man Charged with Stealing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 4

At the North Sydney Police Court Thomas Hardy, who was recently brought back from South African by Sergeant T. O'Brien, was before Mr…

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Murder of a Girl. Queensland Doctor Charged

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 14

Further evidence in the case in which Dr. Alexander Nicholls is charged with the murder of a girl named Ivy Willing was heard at…

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Welsh Tragedy. Boy Charged with Murder. London, July 22

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 12

"Be brave, my son; they've found the body in the house!' I said to Harold." This was the evidence of Mrs. Jones…

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Marrar Disturbance Cases in Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 2

The Marrar disturbance came before the Police Magistrate at Coolamon, when three of these concerned with the breaking up of the Rev. Mr…

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Mail Orders Frauds the Rentons Sentenced

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 3

At the Darlinghurst Quarter Sessions on Wednesday the trial was concluded of James Resto Clarke Renton and James Ronton, father and son, on a charge of…

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Union Official Charged. £4540 Involved

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 8

At the Central Police Court, Sydney Herbert Lyon Riley, 37, formerly a clerk in the office of the Railway Workers' Industry branch of the…

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Warden's Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 3
Also in Singleton Argus

Mr. T. W. Conen, P:M:, sitting as mining warden at the courthouse yesterday. granted two applications for authority to enter land for the…

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Revision Court

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 4

At a sitting of the State Electoral Revision Court yesterday, presided over by Mr T. W. Cohen, P.M., Mr P. E. Eldershaw, O.P.S., submitted the revised and…

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Hotel Closing. Decision of Sydney Magistrate. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 11

The hearing of the case in which James McDo ald. Louder of a wine license was charged by summons with selling liquor, after closing time on…

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Electoral Revision Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 3

A sitting of the State Electoral Revision Court was held at the courthouse yesterday, when the revised and corrected electoral list for the…

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Monkerai Murder. Inquest Opened. Statement by Accused

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 8

Charles Griffin, 24, who is charged with the murder if Frank Rudkin at Monkeral on July 4, was brought before Messrs. R. Champion and A…

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Charge of Murder. New Zealand Tragedy. Wellington

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 9

A message received at Washington says that George Gordon, 56, and John kinsei went to Gordon's but at Wanramaha, where it is…

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Contempt of Court. Witness Apologises

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 5

The Parramatta coroner resumed the inquest to-day into the death of Maude M'Donald at Newington Asylum. Her husband, John M'Donald, was…

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Industrial Court. Breaches of Pressmakers' Award

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 11

Mr. G. C. Addison, Chief Industrial Magistrate, occupied the Bench at the Industrial Court held at the West Maitland's Courthouse on the 21st inst…

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Small Debts Court. Claim Against Laundryman

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 13

In the Small Debts Court held at the West Maitland Courthouse on the 21st instant, before Messrs. Elias Bowden and C. J. Mannaah Js.P…

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Shorter Week. Application to the Railways. Reference to Special Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 6

The question whether a 44 hours week should be extended generally to the railways will, the Government has decided, be referred to the…

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Maitland District Court. Wednesday, July 27. (Before His Honor Judge Hamilton)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 5

The Maitland District Court was opened to-day, before has Honor, Judge Hamilton, at the Courthouse, East Maitland…

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West Maitland Court. Monday, July 25. (Before Mr. G. Atkin. P.m.) Drunkenness and Language

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1921 · page 14

Thomas Coyle pleaded guilty to being drunk in High-street on Saturday afternoon, but guilty to having used indecent language in…

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