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Courts & crime, 1922

2,085 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 105

Late Inspector-General of Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 February 1922 · page 4

Mr. Thomas Garvin, ex-Inspector-General of Police, deed at Woollabra on Monday in his 79th year, and was privately interred at the Waverly…

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Fraudulent Devices Sentenced to Three Years

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 February 1922 · page 6

In the Criminal Court, Brisbane, William James Richards, aged 29, and John Frederick Taylor, 29, were found guilty of a charge of having,…

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Ruinous Effects. Labour Governments Financial Police. Sir George Fuller's Warning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 February 1922 · page 4

The lender of the Opposition (Sir Geo. Fuller.) stated that another three years of Labour government on the present lines would most certainly…

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Gun Alley Murder. Missing Witness Found

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 6

Albert Ernest White, an important witness in the Gun Alley murder case, for whom the Melbourne detectives have been looking, has been found in…

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Missing Bather. Gruesome Find by Police

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 6

The police, who were investigating the disappearance of Norman Whiteley, aged 22, of Chatswood, who was last seen on Monday,…

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Soviet Secret Police to Be Abolished and Civil Police Substituted. ("Times" Cable.) London, Thursday Night

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 2

The "Times" Warsaw correspondent says the Soviet secret police, possessing absolute power over life and proporty, from which there can be no…

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Police Baffled. Alleged Conspiracy. Vancouver, February 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 5

A message from Los Angeles states that the police are complaining that the movie interests have organised to protect the names and reputation of…

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An Illicit Attachment Murder and Attempted Suicide. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 2

When Mrs Gladys Hutchinson, aged 30, announced that she was returning to her husband at Pipiroa, New Zealand, Arthur William Page, with whom she…

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Railway Strike. Attack on Police Station. Bombay, February 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 5

Reuter's Allahbad correspondent states that the Commissioner of Agrareports that the strike of Indian railway employees at Tungla continues,…

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Strike Leaders in Court. General Strike Turnerd Down Johannesburg, February 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 February 1922 · page 5

The strike leaders, Messrs, Fisher Tuddermid, Shaw, Spendiff and Wordingham, were before the magistrate, and the case was remanded to…

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Police Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 2

At the Dungog Police Court, on Wednesday, before Messrs. J. A. Jones and C. T. Abbott, J's.P., Martin Thos. Rumbel was charged with…

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Pensions Official. Sentenced for Fraud. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 5

Arthur Llwellyn Smith, an official of the Federal pensions Department, pleaded guilty at Darlinghurst Sessions to a charge of having…

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East Maitland Court. Friday, February 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 2

Major F. W. C. Crane, P.M., occupied the bench at the East Maitland Police Court this morning. SHOOTING PROTECTED BIRDS…

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Leaders in Court. Commandoes Demonstrate. Johannesburg, Feb. 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 5

The Commandoes of Central Johannesburg demonstrated in front of the fort, in which the five arrested leaders are interned. They sang…

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Clothing Trades. Leaving the Dispute to the Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 7

The New South Wales branch of the Federated Clothing Trades Union does not Intend to follow the example of the Victorian section and give up work in…

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Chicago Strikers. Attacks on Police. Women Put in Front Rank

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 5

Rioting without precedent even in the troubled history of Chicago, kept the Stockyard district of the city in an uproar throughout the night…

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Appeal for Help. (Published by Arrangement.) Chief of Police on Prohibition

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1922 · page 4

The ill-effects of the prohibition law are growing so rapidly throughout the United States (says the New York correspondent of the London 'Daily…

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Infants Injured. Man Charged with Assault

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 6

Bernard Sharp, 20, was remanded for a week at the North Sydney Police-Court, on a charge of having assaulted Gordon Davis, an infant, at…

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Police Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 4

Robert Walter Dawson Johnston, 18, was charged at the West Maitland Police Court with having on February 10, at Raymond Terrace, broken and…

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Judge's Warning. Assault and Robbery Cases

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 February 1922 · page 7

Joseph Gray, a young man, brought before the Darlinghurst Sessions for sentence on a charge of assault and robbery…

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